Cervélo Cycles is a manufacturer of racing and track bicycles. Cervélo uses CAD , computational fluid dynamics , and wind tunnel testing at a variety of facilities including the San Diego Air and Space Technology Center, in California, US, to aid its designs. Frame materials include carbon fibre . Cervélo currently makes 5 series of bikes: the C series and R series of road bikes, the latter featuring multi-shaped, "Squoval" frame tubes; the S series of road bikes and P series of triathlon/time trial bikes, both of which feature airfoil shaped down tubes ; and the T series of track bikes. In professional competition, cyclists have ridden Cervélo bicycles to victory in all three of road cycling 's grand tours : the Tour de France ; the Giro d'Italia ; and the Vuelta a España . In 2023, Cervélo achieved a historic sweep of all three grand tours in a single year.
22-775: Gerard Vroomen , one of the two founders of the company, started researching bike dynamics at the Eindhoven University of Technology . He took his knowledge to Canada to continue the research in McGill University . In 1995, Vroomen and Phil White founded Cervélo Cycles. The name Cervélo is a portmanteau of cervello , the Italian word for brain, and vélo , the French word for bike. In May 2011, Vroomen sold his stake in Cervélo to pursue new projects, although he
44-433: A España , the 2022 and 2023 Tour de France , as well as the 2023 Giro d'Italia , while also adding a gold medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics and a rainbow jersey at the 2022 UCI Road World Championships . Additional they won the 2022 and 2023 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad , 2022 Paris–Nice , 2023 Tirreno–Adriatico , 2023 Volta a Catalunya , 2023 E3 Saxo Bank Classic , 2023 Dwars door Vlaanderen , 2021 and 2023 Tour of
66-428: A new time trial bicycle failed to garner interest from traditional bicycle manufacturers. Today, Cervélo is the largest triathlon bike manufacturer in the world and partnered with the triathlon team, Team TBB, and the road cycling team, Garmin–Cervélo . Readers of VeloNews, CycleSport, Inside Triathlon and Slowtwitch voted Cervélo as the #1 brand they intended to purchase in 2011. A book titled To Make Riders Faster
88-606: A record. In 2011, the Cervélo S3 received numerous awards from cycling publications including being selected as Editors' Pick in VeloNews' Aero Road Bike Test and Best Race Bike in the Bicycling Magazine Editors' Choice Awards. The Cervélo Soloist is the brand's all-round road bike. Representing a balance in aerodynamics, weight, and price. The Cervélo R-Series is the brand's climbing road bike. The R5
110-685: Is a road cycling one-day race that took place on 26 February 2022 in Belgium , starting in Gent and finishing in Ninove . It was the 77th edition of the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and the second event of the 2022 UCI World Tour . Omloop Het Nieuwsblad is a race that is usually won by a solo rider or is decided by a sprint from a small group of several riders. This year was no exception, winner Wout van Aert attacked with 13 km to go from
132-527: Is a Dutch-born mechanical engineer and the owner of Open Cycle . He was previously the co-founder of Cervélo & the now-defunct Cervélo TestTeam . He left the operational side of Cervelo in May 2011. Since February 2012, he has been the part-time business development advisor for Cervelo's new owner, the Pon Bicycle Group . Phil White and Gérard Vroomen founded Cervélo in 1995 when their design for
154-460: Is nominally still involved with the company at the board level. Cervélo is now owned by Pon Holdings , a Dutch company that also owns Gazelle , and Derby Cycle . The company makes or has marketing rights to bicycles from Raleigh , Kalkhoff , Univega , Focus Bikes , Ghost, and Santa Cruz Bicycles . A book titled, To Make Riders Faster , by Anna Dopico, was released in April 2018. The book tells
176-454: Is the lightest of the brand's road offerings. The Cervélo S-Series is the brand's aerodynamic road bike. The S5 is the most aerodynamic of the brand's road offerings. The Cervélo P-Series is the brand's time trial and triathlon bike series. The Cervélo T-Series is the brand's track bike. Áspero-5 ZFS-5 This is an incomplete list, you can help by expanding it... Gerard Vroomen Gérard Vroomen (born 20 July 1971, Nijmegen )
198-469: The Garmin–Cervélo team, which also included a women's team. This partnership lasted until the end of the 2014 season. For the 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 season, they provided bikes to MTN-Qhubeka that turned into Team Dimension-Data for Qhubeka in 2016. For the 2021 season, Cervélo began a partnership with Team Jumbo–Visma , supplying bicycles that were ridden to victory in the 2021 and 2023 Vuelta
220-634: The Basque Country , 2021 Amstel Gold Race , 2022 and 2023 Critérium du Dauphiné , In 2006 Team CSC rider Fabian Cancellara won Paris–Roubaix on a Cervelo R3. In 2007 Team CSC rider Stuart O'Grady won Paris–Roubaix on a Cervelo R3. On 13 October 2007 triathlete Chrissie Wellington of the UK won the Ford Ironman world championship in Kailua-Kona, HI . Her bike in the 180 km ride
242-551: The O-1.0 to be the lightest 29-inch production hardtail on the market. In March 2015, three years after selling his stake in Cervélo, Vroomen announced to have teamed up with 3T CEO René Wiertz to acquire all shares in 3T. Under Vroomen and Wiertz, 3T presented their first complete bicycle; the 3T Exploro gravel racer. This business-related biographical article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . 2022 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad The 2022 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
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#1732786975355264-573: The cobbled classics, with Johan Van Summeren winning Paris–Roubaix. Today, Cervélo is the world's largest manufacturer of time trial and triathlon bikes, as determined in industry counts including decisive wins for the past fifteen years at the prestigious Kona bike count. The winner of the 2008 Tour de France, Carlos Sastre , did so on a Cervélo. At the Beijing Olympics Cervélo bikes were ridden by over forty Olympic athletes, resulting in three Gold, five Silver and two Bronze medals –
286-648: The few manufacturers who have produced an aluminium frame that achieved success against carbon fibre road bicycles, with the Soloist. The Cervelo Soloist Team from the 2003–2005 UCI ProTour season was ridden to success by Team CSC in some of the historical cycling races held in Europe, such as the Critérium International and the Paris–Nice stage race. The Soloist Carbon from the 2006–2007 UCI ProTour season
308-575: The group of favorites. Victor Campenaerts was the first to try chase Van Aert down from the group of 20 riders. van Aert held his lead to the line extending the gap to 22 seconds. The group of 20 sprint out for the rest of the places of the podium with Sonny Colbrelli beating Greg Van Avermaet . Twenty-five teams participated in the race, including all eighteen UCI WorldTour teams and seven UCI ProTeams . Each team entered seven riders, except for Team BikeExchange–Jayco who entered five, and Movistar Team and Groupama–FDJ who entered six each, for
330-429: The international level, but also encouraging collaboration between the team members, Cervélo, and other product sponsorship partners in order to develop better products. There was also a strong focus on fan interaction and experiences. The team's most renowned riders were 2008 Tour de France winner Carlos Sastre and 2010 World Champion and 2009 TdF Green Jersey winner Thor Hushovd . Heinrich Haussler also took many of
352-532: The professional racing circuit. Wins from Fabian Cancellara in the UCI World Timetrial championships, Olympic road and timetrial podium finishes for both Fabian Cancellara and tradeteam teammate Gustav Erik Larsson. In addition to these high-profile victories, Cervélo bikes were also ridden to overall success in the Tour de France team classification and ProTour team classifications. Cervélo are one of
374-440: The smallest and youngest bike company to ever supply a team at this level. Team CSC was crowned the world's #1 pro cycling team aboard Cervélo for three years. The partnership lasted for six years, until the end of 2008. In 2009, Cervélo became the first bike manufacturer in the modern era to have its own cycling team at the highest levels of racing, Cervélo TestTeam . The team had a stated goal of not only competing successfully on
396-713: The story of Gerard Vroomen and Phil White meeting at McGill University and taking their company from a school basement project in Montreal, Canada, to their bikes winning in the Tour de France, the Olympics and Ironman. Cervélo's sponsorship of elite athletes has led to widespread recognition of the brand. In 2003, Cervélo became the bike supplier to Team CSC , at the time the 14th team on the world ranking. Aside possibly from LeMond Bicycles and their collaborations with Merlin Metalworks and Calfee Design, Cervélo may have been
418-564: The team's headlines, with his impressive performances at Paris–Nice , Milan–San Remo , and his stage win in the 2009 Tour de France ( Stage 13, Colmar ). In 2010, Emma Pooley and Thor Hushovd won the UCI Women's Timetrial and UCI Men's Road Race respectively. Success was also achieved in a number of ITU Triathlon Races and the Ironman 70.3 and long-distance events. For the 2011 season, Cervélo joined forces with Slipstream sports to form
440-429: Was released in April 2018 telling the story of Gerard Vroomen and Phil White, co-founders of Cervélo Cycles, meeting at McGill University and taking their company from a school basement project in Montreal, Canada, to their bikes winning in the Tour de France, the Olympics and Ironman. Gerard Vroomen (co-founder of Cervélo) and Andy Kessler (Former CEO of BMC), have partnered together in a business called Open. They claim
462-517: Was ridden to success in the Giro d'Italia. Cervélo are the only manufacturer to produce an aero-road frame (Soloist) that has won on the cobbled road race classics, with additional wins from the S-series bicycles notably in the 2009 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and 2010 Tour de France (Stage 3) by Thor Hushovd. In 2011, Garmin–Cervélo rode the updated (BBright bottom bracket and tapered head tube) R3 frame in
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#1732786975355484-519: Was the Cervélo P2C with which she posted the quickest split time [for pro women] of 5:06:15; four minutes faster than her nearest opponent. On 27 July 2008, Carlos Sastre of Spain won the Tour de France on Soloist SLC-SL and R3-SL Cervélo framesets. It was Cervélo's first Tour win. From 2003 to 2008, Cervélo enjoyed the partnership with team CSC/Saxobank with whom they achieved a number of wins on
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