The Cervelo S5 Mark Cavendish rode to four Tour stage wins
Cav has just retired with a record 35 Tour de France stage wins, four of them achieved in 2016 on this rim-braked aero bike with blacked out componentsWith Mark Cavendish having just retired from professional road racing, let’s take a look back at the Cervelo S5 that he rode to four Tour de France stage victories in 2016, including Stage 1 of the race which secured him his a day in the race leader's yellow jersey.
Cervelo launched an updated version of the S5 for the 2015 model year, and it’s this version Cav was riding in the 2016 Tour de France. Cervelo said that this model was faster than the original – of course; when did a bike brand say anything else? – offering a drag reduction of the equivalent of 21.3 watts at 40km/h , a 35% stiffer head tube, a 17% stiffer fork and a 6% stiffer bottom bracket while maintaining the same weight. Bike industry PR has run on attention-grabbing statistics for years.
This bike, which we saw in France just ahead of the Grand Départ, was fitted with Rotor’s 3D Power chainset with 170mm crank arms and noQ round chainrings. However, despite Rotor being a sponsor, Cav raced with a Shimano Dura-Ace chainset with the logos taped over. We’ve noticed you’re using an ad blocker. If you like road.cc, but you don’t like ads, please consider subscribing to the site to support us directly. As a subscriber you can read road.cc ad-free, from as little as £1.99.
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