# Cervélo

Cervélo Cycles Inc. 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.

## History

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 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 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.

## Professional sport

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 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 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 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 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 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 the Basque Country, 2021 Amstel Gold Race, 2022 and 2023 Critérium du Dauphiné,

## International racing success

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 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 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 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 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 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 – 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.

## Models
### Soloist

The Cervélo Soloist is the brand's all-round road bike. Representing a balance in aerodynamics, weight, and price.

### R-Series

The Cervélo R-Series is the brand's climbing road bike. The R5 is the lightest of the brand's road offerings.

### S-Series

The Cervélo S-Series is the brand's aerodynamic road bike. The S5 is the most aerodynamic of the brand's road offerings.

### P-Series

The Cervélo P-Series is the brand's time trial and triathlon bike series.

### T-Series

The Cervélo T-Series is the brand's track bike.
| Road | Road | Road | Road | Time trial / Triathlon | Track | Gravel | Cyclocross | Mountain | E-Bike |
| Soloist | R-Series | S-Series | C-Series | P-Series | T-Series | Áspero | CX | Z-Series | Rouvida |
| Soloist Soloist Carbon Soloist Team | RS R2 R3 / R3d R5/R5D RCA | S1 S2 S3 / S3d S5 | C2 C3 C5 | P1 P2 P3 P3X P4 P5-three P5-six P5X | T1 T3 T4 T5GB | Áspero Áspero-5 | R5-CX | ZHT-5 ZFS-5 | Rouvida |
| 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 No longer made. ↑ UCI compliant variant ↑ Triathlon variant | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 No longer made. ↑ UCI compliant variant ↑ Triathlon variant | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 No longer made. ↑ UCI compliant variant ↑ Triathlon variant | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 No longer made. ↑ UCI compliant variant ↑ Triathlon variant | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 No longer made. ↑ UCI compliant variant ↑ Triathlon variant | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 No longer made. ↑ UCI compliant variant ↑ Triathlon variant | | | | |

## Awards, sponsorship and victories
### Awards
#### 2016

    Gran Fondo Design & Innovation Award: Cervélo S5 DA DI2

#### 2018

    Red Dot Design Award: Cervélo P5X
    220 Triathlon: Bike Brand of the Year
    VeloNews Gear Awards 2018 | For the speed demon: Cervélo S5

### Sponsorship

    Team CSC (2003–2008)
    CSC–Saxo Bank (2008)
    Cervélo TestTeam (2009–2010)
    Team Garmin−Cervélo (2011)
    Team Garmin−Barracuda (2012)
    Garmin−Sharp (2012–2014)
    MTN–Qhubeka (2015)
    Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka (2016–2018)
    Team Sunweb (2019–2020)
    Team Jumbo–Visma (2021-current)

### Significant victories

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#### 2003

    Tour de France
       1st Team CSC, Team classification
       Stages 10, 13 & 16
    Liège–Bastogne–Liège
       1st Tyler Hamilton, General classification
    National road cycling championships
       1st Nicki Sørensen, Denmark Men's National Road Race Champion
       1st Michael Blaudzun, Denmark Men's National Time Trial Champion

#### 2004

    Tour de France
       Stage 12
    Paris–Nice
       1st Jörg Jaksche, General classification
    Critérium International
       1st Jens Voigt, General classification
       Stage 1
    Tour Méditerranéen
       1st Jörg Jaksche
    National road cycling championships
       1st Michael Blaudzun, Denmark Men's National Road Race Champion
       1st Michael Sandstød, Denmark Men's National Time Trial Champion

#### 2005

    Giro d'Italia
       Stages 17 & 18
    Vuelta a España
       Stage 18
    Paris–Nice
       1st Bobby Julich, General classification
       1st Jens Voigt, Points classification
       1st Team CSC, Best team
       Stage Prologue
    Critérium International
       1st Bobby Julich, General classification
    Tour of Qatar
       1st Lars Michaelsen, General classification
    Tour Méditerranéen
       1st Jens Voigt
    National road cycling championships
       1st Lars Bak, Denmark Men's Elite Road Race Champion
       1st Michael Blaudzun, Denmark Men's Elite Time Trial Champion
       1st Fränk Schleck, Luxembourg Men's Elite Road Race Champion
       1st Andy Schleck, Luxembourg Men's Elite Time Trial Champion

#### 2006

    Tour de France
       Stages 13, 15 & 17
    Giro d'Italia
       1st Ivan Basso, General classification
       Stages 5, 8, 16 & 20
    Vuelta a España
       Stage 1
    UCI Road World Championships
       1st Fabian Cancellara, Men's time trial
    Paris–Roubaix
       1st Fabian Cancellara
    Critérium International
       1st Ivan Basso, General classification
    Tour of Britain
       1st Martin Pedersen
    Deutschland Tour
       1st Jens Voigt, Gelbes Trikot (General classification)
       Stages 2, 6 & 7
    National road cycling championships
       1st Peter Luttenberger, Austria Men's Elite Time Trial Champion
       1st Brian Vandborg, Denmark Men's Elite Time Trial Champion
       1st Kurt Asle Arvesen, Norway Men's Elite Time Trial Champion
       1st Fabian Cancellara, Switzerland Men's Elite Time Trial Champion
       1st David Zabriskie, United States Men's Elite Time Trial Champion

#### 2007

    Tour de France
       Stages Prologue & 3
    UCI Road World Championships
    Giro d'Italia
       Stage 8
       1st Fabian Cancellara, Men's time trial
    Paris–Roubaix
       1st Stuart O'Grady
    Critérium International
       1st Jens Voigt, General classification
    Deutschland Tour
       1st Jens Voigt, Gelbes Trikot (General classification)
    National road cycling championships
       1st Fabian Cancellara, Switzerland Men's Elite Time Trial Champion

#### 2008

    Tour de France
       1st Carlos Sastre, General classification
       1st Carlos Sastre, Mountains classification
       1st Andy Schleck, Young rider classification
       1st CSC–Saxo Bank, Team classification
       Stages 11, 17 & 20
    Summer Olympic Games
       1st Fabian Cancellara, Men's time trial
       1st Joan Llaneras, Men's points race
       2nd Roger Kluge, Men's points race
       2nd Fabian Cancellara, Men's road race
       2nd Simon Whitfield, Men's triathlon
       2nd Spain (ESP) (Joan Llaneras & Antonio Tauler), Men's Madison
       1st Kristin Armstrong, Women's time trial
       3rd Karin Thürig, Women's time trial
    Tour of Britain
       1st Matthew Goss, Points classification

#### 2009

    Tour de France
       1st Thor Hushovd, Points classification
       Stages 6 & 13
    Giro d'Italia
       Stages 14, 16, 19 & 21
    Tour of Qatar
       1st Heinrich Haussler, Points classification
       1st Heinrich Haussler, Youth classification

#### 2010

    Tour de France
       Stage 3
    UCI Road World Championships
       1st Thor Hushovd, Men's road race
    Tour of Qatar
       1st Heinrich Haussler, Points classification
       1st Cervélo TestTeam, Team classification

#### 2011

    Tour de France
       1st Garmin–Cervélo, Team classification
       Stages 2, 3, 13 & 16
    Giro d'Italia
       Stage 21
    Vuelta a España
       Stage 9
    Paris–Roubaix
       1st Johan Vansummeren
    Tour of Qatar
       1st Heinrich Haussler, Points classification
       1st Garmin–Cervélo, Team classification
    Tour Down Under
       1st Cameron Meyer, General classification
       1st Cameron Meyer, Young rider classification
       Stage 4

#### 2012

    Tour de France
       Stage 12
    Giro d'Italia
       1st Ryder Hesjedal, General classification
       1st Trofeo Super Team (Team points classification), Team Garmin−Barracuda
       Stage 4
    Summer Olympic Games
       2nd Lizzie Armitstead, Women's road race
    Tour of Britain
       1st Nathan Haas, General classification
    Tour of Qatar
       1st Ramūnas Navardauskas, Young rider classification
    National road cycling championships
       1st Fabian Wegmann, Germany Men's Elite Road Race Champion
       1st Robert Hunter, South Africa Men's Elite Road Race Champion
       1st Ramūnas Navardauskas, Lithuania Men's Elite Time Trial Champion
       1st David Zabriskie, United States Men's Elite Time Trial Champion

#### 2013

    Tour de France
       Stage 9
    Giro d'Italia
       Stage 11
    Volta a Catalunya
       1st Dan Martin, General classification
       1st Garmin–Sharp, Team classification
       Stage 4
    Liège–Bastogne–Liège
       1st Dan Martin
    2013 Paris–Nice
       Stage 3
    Critérium du Dauphiné
       1st Rohan Dennis, Young rider classification

#### 2014

    Tour de France
       Stage 19
    Vuelta a España
       Stage 14
    Critérium du Dauphiné
       1st Andrew Talansky, General classification
    Tour of Britain
       1st Dylan van Baarle, General classification
    2014 Paris–Nice
       Stages 4 & 7
    Giro di Lombardia
       1st Dan Martin
    National road cycling championships
       1st Sebastian Langeveld, Netherlands Men's Elite Road Race Champion
       1st Ramūnas Navardauskas, Lithuania Men's Elite Time Trial Champion
       1st Steele Von Hoff, Australia National Criterium Champion

#### 2015

    Tour de France
       Stage 14
    Vuelta a España
       Stage 10
    Critérium du Dauphiné
       1st Daniel Teklehaimanot, Mountains classification
    Tour of Britain
       1st Edvald Boasson Hagen, General classification
    National road cycling championships
       1st Natnael Berhane, Eritrea Men's Elite Road Race Champion
       1st Edvald Boasson Hagen, Norway Men's Elite Road Race Champion
       1st Jacques Janse van Rensburg, South Africa Men's Elite Road Race Champion
       1st Daniel Teklehaimanot, Eritrea Men's Elite Time Trial Champion
       1st Edvald Boasson Hagen, Norway Men's Elite Time Trial Champion

#### 2016

    Tour de France
       Stages 1, 3, 6 & 14
    Vuelta a España
       1st Omar Fraile, Mountains classification
    Summer Olympic Games
       1st Great Britain (GBR) (Ed Clancy, Steven Burke, Owain Doull & Bradley Wiggins), Men's team pursuit
       1st Great Britain (GBR) (Philip Hindes, Jason Kenny & Callum Skinner), Men's team sprint
       1st Jason Kenny, Men's keirin
       1st Jason Kenny, Men's sprint
       2nd Callum Skinner, Men's sprint
       2nd Mark Cavendish, Men's omnium
       1st Great Britain (GBR) (Katie Archibald, Laura Trott, Elinor Barker & Joanna Rowsell Shand), Women's team pursuit
       1st Laura Trott, Women's omnium
       2nd Becky James, Women's keirin
       2nd Becky James, Women's sprint
       3rd Katy Marchant, Women's sprint
    Critérium du Dauphiné
       1st Edvald Boasson Hagen, Points classification
       1st Daniel Teklehaimanot, Mountains classification
       Stages 4 & 7
    Tour of Britain
       1st Steve Cummings, General classification
    Tour of Qatar
       1st Mark Cavendish, General classification
       Stages 1 & 3
    Track Cycling World Championships
       1st Bradley Wiggins, Men's madison
    National road cycling championships
       1st Kanstantsin Sivtsov, Belarus Men's Elite Road Race Champion
       1st Daniel Teklehaimanot, Eritrea Men's Elite Road Race Champion
       1st Edvald Boasson Hagen, Norway Men's Elite Road Race Champion
       1st Jaco Venter, South Africa Men's Elite Road Race Champion
       1st Kanstantsin Sivtsov, Belarus Men's Elite Time Trial Champion
       1st Daniel Teklehaimanot, Eritrea Men's Elite Time Trial Champion
       1st Edvald Boasson Hagen, Norway Men's Elite Time Trial Champion
       1st Adrien Niyonshuti, Rwanda Men's Elite Time Trial Champion

#### 2017

    Tour de France
       Stage 19
    Giro d'Italia
       Stage 11
    National road cycling championships
       1st Youcef Reguigui, Algeria Men's Elite Road Race Champion
       1st Steve Cummings, Great Britain Men's Elite Road Race Champion
       1st Reinardt Janse van Rensburg, South Africa Men's Elite Road Race Champion
       1st Steve Cummings, Great Britain Men's Elite Time Trial Champion
       1st Mekseb Debesay, Eritrea Men's Elite Time Trial Champion
       1st Edvald Boasson Hagen, Norway Men's Elite Time Trial Champion
       1st Adrien Niyonshuti, Rwanda Men's Elite Time Trial Champion

#### 2018

    Vuelta a España
       Stages 4 & 9
    Tour of Britain
       1st Nicholas Dlamini, Mountains classification
    National road cycling championships
       1st Merhawi Kudus, Eritrea Men's Elite Road Race Champion
       1st Edvald Boasson Hagen, Norway Men's Elite Time Trial Champion

#### 2019

    Giro d'Italia
       Stage 21
    Vuelta a España
       Stage 8
    Deutschland Tour
       1st Marc Hirschi, Young rider classification

#### 2020

    Tour de France
       Marc Hirschi, Combativity award
       Stages 12, 14 & 19
    Giro d'Italia
       Stage 18
    National road cycling championships
       1st Juliette Labous, France Women's Elite Time Trial Champion
    Paris–Nice
       1st Tiesj Benoot, Points classification
       1st Team Sunweb, Team classification
       Stages 4 & 6
    Herald Sun Tour
       1st Jai Hindley, General classification
       1st Jai Hindley, Mountains classification
       1st Team Sunweb, Team classification
       Stages 1, 2 & 4
    La Flèche Wallonne
       1st Marc Hirschi
    Bretagne Classic Ouest–France
       1st Michael Matthews

#### 2021

    Tour de France
       Stages 11, 15, 20 & 21
    Vuelta a España
       1st Primož Roglič, General classification
       Stages 1, 11, 17 & 21
    Summer Olympic Games
       1st Primož Roglič, Men's time trial
       2nd Tom Dumoulin, Men's time trial
       2nd Wout van Aert, Men's road race
    Paris–Nice
       1st Primož Roglič, Points classification
       Stages 4, 6 & 7
    Tour of the Basque Country
       1st Primož Roglič, General classification
       1st Primož Roglič, Points classification
       1st Primož Roglič, Mountains classification
       1st Jonas Vingegaard, Young rider classification
       1st Team Jumbo–Visma, Team classification
       Stage 1
    Tour of Britain
       1st Wout van Aert, General classification
       Stages 1, 4, 6 & 8
    National road cycling championships
       1st Wout van Aert, Belgium Men's Elite Road Race Champion
       1st Timo Roosen, Netherlands Men's Elite Road Race Champion
       1st George Bennett, New Zealand Men's Elite Road Race Champion
       1st Tobias Foss, Norway Men's Elite Road Race Champion
       1st Tony Martin, Germany Men's Elite Time Trial Champion
       1st Tom Dumoulin, Netherlands Men's Elite Time Trial Champion
       1st Tobias Foss, Norway Men's Elite Time Trial Champion

#### 2022

    Tour de France
       1st Jonas Vingegaard, General classification
       1st Wout van Aert, Points classification
       1st Jonas Vingegaard, Mountains classification
       1st Wout van Aert, Combativity award
       Stages 4, 8, 11, 18 & 20
    Vuelta a España
       Stages 1 & 4
    Giro d'Italia
       1st Koen Bouwman, Mountains classification
       Stages 7 & 19
    UCI Road World Championships
       1st Tobias Foss, Men's time trial
    National road cycling championships
       1st Pascal Eenkhoorn, Netherlands Men's Elite Road Race Champion
       1st Tobias Foss, Norway Men's Elite Time Trial Champion
       1st Rohan Dennis, Australia Men's Elite Time Trial Champion
       1st Riejanne Markus, Netherlands Women's Elite Road Race Champion

#### 2023

    Tour de France
       1st Jonas Vingegaard, General classification
       1st Team Jumbo–Visma, Team classification
       Stages 16 & 20
    Giro d'Italia
       1st Primož Roglič, General classification
       Stage 20
    Vuelta a España
       1st Sepp Kuss, General classification
       1st Team Jumbo–Visma, Team classification
       Stages 6, 8, 13, 16 & 17
    National road cycling championships
       1st Dylan van Baarle, Netherlands Men's Elite Road Race Champion
       1st Attila Valter, Hungary Men's Elite Road Race Champion
       1st Wout van Aert, Belgium Men's Elite Time Trial Champion
       1st Jos van Emden, Netherlands Men's Elite Time Trial Champion
       1st Attila Valter, Hungary Men's Elite Time Trial Champion
       1st Riejanne Markus, Netherlands Women's Elite Time Trial Champion