This month saw the launch of the new Cervelo R5, a climbing bike so inconspicuous in its new design, it hid in plain sight in the pro peloton for weeks. Journalists finally cottoned on to its existence in a car park in Lille at the Grand Depart of this year’s Tour de France.
What no one expected was that that would be the last time we’d see it in competition, such was the dominance of the recently updated S5.
