Cervelo Cyclocross Bikes
Since 2007 the cyclocross world has waited for Cervelo to deliver a lightweight, incredibly capable, compliant cross frameset. That year the company made two R3 Cross models for crosser Jonathan Page. The success of Page, and the seemingly fully-baked design, drove the masses to distraction, especially as Cervelo never delivered the bike to market. Move forward to late 2022 and the company has built off the success and performance qualities of the updated R5, to release the R5-CX. It may seem odd to some, as gravel has overtaken cross via the masses, but a dedicated cadre still practices the dark arts of cyclocross.
While the R3 Cross was a special, capable and compliant frameset when it was designed, frame development overall has come pretty far since then, and while the essence of that special frame model is here, the power transfer, the overall torsional stiffness, and incredible handling control from the 5-designation cockpit and fork system make the R5-CX a unique, impressive, course-dominating foundation of a World Champion quality complete bike. Speaking of, Cervelo sponsors two of the best, Wout van Aert and Marianne Vos. Coincidence?
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The R5-CX: Worth It's Weight in Gold
Racing cross requires more than one edge. The one you carry in your heart, and your frameset of choice. Winning on a cross course designed to break you is not only a test of your courage and skill, but a test of the bike that will carry you to the podium, without failing. Cervelo's R5 is considered one of the most efficient, most compliant and most powerful road designs and the engineers worked off that platform to create a dominant cross-race frameset. Cervelo has kept the asymmetric design of their BBright bottom bracket junction, but the engineers opted for a threaded oversized T47-sized aluminum shell. While this a unique-to-Cervelo implementation, it uses standard inboard and outboard T47 bottom bracket cups sized for the crankset of your choice. Sure, quiet, and reliable, the T47 system is ideally used.
The tubeset carries the shapes of the R5's updated Squoval.Max design, but with directed strength and compliance in some tube sizes and the carbon lay-up that match the extreme race day requirements of cross racers. The square-oval mildly aero down and top tubes come cleanly off the fully integrated headtube and offset aero fork crown design, for a very sleek effect. Aero ins't the primary goal, but power and efficiency equals pure performance. Built with a SRAM AXS 1x groupset and a great set of Reserve whels and the R5-CX is ready to take the podium's top step. Are you?
