Cervélo R5

look back at the Porsche 911s of the 1980s, they were widow-makers and the performance wasn’t there. But look at a ‘I^f you current generation GT2 and it’s like you can – you shouldn’t, but you can – get the groceries. It’s comfortable every day, and you can potter around town in it. It’s not temperamental when it’s cold in the morning. It just does what it has to do and doesn’t complain. I think that’s where this generation of bikes is now.’

So says Scott Roy, engineering manager at Cervélo and the man ultimately responsible for the latest R5.