I first rode one of the original prototypes of the Cervelo ZFS-5 World Cup XCO over a year ago, before the ZFS name was even confirmed. At that point it was due to debut under Team Jumbo Visma’s newly signed XC rider Milan Vader a month later. Unfortunately for Milan he crashed out of his season on the road shortly afterwards, but that’s given Cervelo another year to refine the details of their first move into full-suspension MTBs and they’re now over 30 revisions into the project.
