I’m gutted that you can’t see the headtube as that’s probably the most important area in terms of aerodynamics.
So that’s a 20% saving eh?
As a wheel fairing seems to be so important, why not design aero mudguards?
Or alternatively, is it just something that Cervelo did because they fancied a giggle at the amount of speculation that would come off the back of it?!?
This would be what happens when the designs are purely function driven, and comply with UCI rules…
Looks a helluva lot like a P3C with a few bells and whistles. ::yawn::
Exactly…you’d expect only incremental change as the design approaches optimal for a given set of constraints…and everybody has been raving for years about how the P3C is nearly optimal…
He’s in the small ring.
He’s in the small ring.
He is actually a she!, Cervélo LifeForce is a womens team.
He’s in the small ring.
She. AND the photo is from the non-drive side. Very non-ST approved.
“OMG! I need one to go with 6:30 IM bike split.” - Targeted customer.
“OMG! I need one to go with 6:30 IM bike split.” - Targeted customer.
sounds reasonable to me.
the slower you are the more time a fancy bike saves you
and the more desperately your taint needs that time being on the bike so damn long!
" He is actually a she!, Cervélo LifeForce is a womens team."
That dude is a chick?
where’s the rear brake?
I believe you can see pad poking out from the BB area, weird since i though gerard said the effects of brake placement were minimal.
Hmmm. You might want to hold off any first impressions.
" He is actually a she!, Cervélo LifeForce is a womens team."
That dude is a chick?
Indeed, cue the Aerosmith,
… or the other way around.
Hmmm. You might want to hold off any first impressions.
Too late. The bandwagons leaving the station. Hop on now while you still can. DOWN WITH THE P4!!
" He is actually a she!, Cervélo LifeForce is a womens team."
That dude is a chick?
Cold weather cycling gear and sunglasses is no way to judge a woman. I suggest taking a look at the cervelo lifeforce homepage, kind of cute(national championship jersey certainly helps).
The jump from the Kronos to the Flight by Colnago looks more appealing than this ‘improvement’.
Sorry, need to see more to get more emotional!
Bring on the QR, Colnago and Look photos from Interbike…
where’s the rear brake?
I believe you can see pad poking out from the BB area, weird since i though gerard said the effects of brake placement were minimal.
I believe what Gerard has said is that there is little or nothing to be gained by moving a conventional brake from behind the seat tube and seat stays to under (or just above) the b.b. What Cervelo has done (or at least what they have proposed in their patent application) is to essentially get rid of the rear brake altogether, at least from an aerodynamic perspective, by hiding it inside the chain stays. That allows them to optimize the aerodynamics of the seat tube/seat stay junction w/o paying the penalty of sticking a regular brake near the b.b.
I’m gutted that you can’t see the headtube as that’s probably the most important area in terms of aerodynamics.
I was disappointed as well (not to knock the person who posted the photo!). OTOH, Cervelo’s proposed integrated stem and bars wouldn’t let me get low enough on even their smallest frame, so that feature of the P4 (if it makes it to production) doesn’t really impact me.
I guess if anything is going to happen, it will be tomorrow right?
I’m gutted that you can’t see the headtube as that’s probably the most important area in terms of aerodynamics.
I was disappointed as well (not to knock the person who posted the photo!). OTOH, Cervelo’s proposed integrated stem and bars wouldn’t let me get low enough on even their smallest frame, so that feature of the P4 (if it makes it to production) doesn’t really impact me.
Me too, send a sms to my sister in Varese but see doesnot have a camera with her 
“You nailed it on the head. I was really hoping for a non-UCI legal frame.”
You still believe in the tooth fairy and Santa Claus too, don’t you?
You do know they just created their own top-tier pro team, don’t you? They obviously didn’t come up with that idea overnight. Do you really think they would invest time and effort in a non-UCI compliant frame when they were getting ready to launch their own UCI team?
Wake up people. New non-UCI legal frames are NOT going to come from any major manufacturer…Kestrel’s legacy Airfoil Pro designs notwithstanding…there is simply no financial incentive. Note also that all these current and new TT/Tri bikes provide seat tube angles or provisions to meet the UCI 5cm rule in some manner. Do some simple economic math…do you really think a REAL audience of a couple hundred thousand triathletes, of which any single company can’t hope for a huge percentage of customers on a given model/year frame…can support the tooling and development of a cutting edge bike…even if you try to limit frame sizes to the “t-shirt” size design model?
Looks a helluva lot like a P3C with a few bells and whistles. ::yawn::
If you want excitement, get an industrial designer to add lots of cool curves, swoops and bulges.
If you want speed, design using the wind tunnel as a tool and put aerodynamics over style.
Sure, if they threw out UCI compliance, things could get wild looking, but I doubt the audience even among triathletes would be that large. Maybe someday in the future we’ll see such a beast, but the folks at Cervelo are good businesspeople so for now it’s UCI compliance.