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Cervelo gave me a box in a package. I didn’t know what was in it unless it was a motorcycle, through the definition of the box. I opened the most sensitive lapels, pulled out the motorcycle and placed it on my clothes rack. I finished editing, I took it out and set it up the next morning, and two things came to mind. First, they still made the R3 Mud! Second, if you did a use case chart for all Cervelo motorcycles, it would range from serious road races to soft to moderate gravel.

Later I was informed of the call of this motorcycle, Caledonia, and some of my favorite things about this motorcycle were others and I will return to it below. But first let’s communicate about the road motorcycle of the future, because that’s what it is: not necessarily the Caledonia consistent with it, but the platform on which the Caledonia is built: the inconsistent ingenuities that underlie the design of this motorcycle. For years, years and. years, the transmission of my road motorcycles has never kept up to my (lack of) leg strength. When I started cycling in the 1970s, my low speed was 42×21. As I got older, I migrated to reduce gears. When I turned 50, it was 34×26 and then 34×32. But my ambitions have been greater than my quads (I like to climb steep and complicated slopes). The march of the Caledonia-5 I drove has 48×35 and 10-36 gears. I think that in spite of everything I have a road motorcycle with speeds that fit my ability to drive them, and then there is the length of the tires: here came road tyres of 30 mm on the motorcycle, with a capacity of up to 34 mm. The Caledonia is tuned for convenience and guidance related to longer and more combined efforts, but with attention to aerodynamics despite its convenience. Finally, there is an urgent need for protection designed on this motorcycle and I will return to it in the discussion about the help of accessories.

Cervelo’s tale took time, but here it is at last. It has all the aerodynamic features you need on a road motorcycle, as well as a focus on how the motorcycle deserves to behave for maximum cyclists: 50 mph rock-forged descents, surfing on a short board that comes out of the saddle, but not the ultra-fast-handling of a crotch rocket. The Caledonia is not the last candidate for “who can make the motorcycle stiffer”. It’s stiff enough but, like skis, there’s something too stiff. Caledonia is not. A few days after buying the motorcycle, I won an email with a link to a download folder in Caledonia, and the PDF describing this motorcycle started with “through Inspired the R3 Mud”. It’s great to know that what Cervelo has in mind for the motorcycle corresponds to my non-public impressions. When I wrote to Cervelo about my instincts about Caledonia, I called it the ‘road bike of the future’. They call it a fashionable path more succinctly, and I think it’s okay.

La Caledonia frame flavor comes in the form of 2 frame patterns suitable for mid- and high-end prices. The mid-range Caledonia weighs about 1460 grams of frame and fork, and has a circular saddle bar; A slightly different interface between the frame and fork and a classic gallows that does not have the brake cables routed inside the gallows. The Caledonia-5 is the high-end version, and that’s what I’ve been through. It’s an addition of absolute aerodynamics, no visual cables, point by line, with a workaholy chassis. It’s like Lamborghini’s opinion of an SUV. It weighs 1300 grams of frame and fork, which are ridiculously light, but I guess that’s the state of the art in those days. The bikes are also geometrically the same and you will see next, on the subject of the fit, that this bike corresponds precisely to the same as the R series, and is the classic road geometry of Cervelo for more than a decade. However, the geometry adjusts with respect to how the bike behaves: the handling has been attenuated (although I have never discovered that any of Cervelo’s bikes are “noisy”). In addition, there is tons of free space for tyres; you can use tires up to 34mm, which is about the free space you would expect from a cyclocross motorcycle.

Spec Caledonia is the mid-range frame. The most sensitive specification finish for this frame is Shimano Ultegra Di2 8050, and is supplied with 52×36 and 11-34 and 30 mm tires. Then you can get this motorcycle with Ultegra 8000 or 105 7000 mechanics, and the length of the gears and tires is the same. The least that can end is $2900 and is for a Shimano 105.The Caledonia-5 is the star product, and when built with SRAM, it is eTap AXS, in red or in force. So far, I haven’t discovered Force AXS retrograde enough to need to finish more on the Network; Force AXS is just amazing. You can also get this motorcycle on Shimano Di2, either Dura Ace and Ultegra (8050 and 7050), or Ultegra Mechanical. I continue to communicate about possible speed features because all SRAM features come with 12sp, 10-36 and 48×35. All Shimano equipment comes with 52×36 and 11-34, with one exception. The Dura Ace Di2 built in the Caledonia-5 comes with an 11-30 cassette. That’s a decisive thing for me. This wider gearbox on the Ultegra Di2 motorcycle is enough to keep me on this path, but my use for this motorcycle. I’m a climber (not a smart climber, but I’m still a climber). You may prefer to locate the 11-30, because you’re either more potent than me or don’t climb many steep hills. The jumps of the device will not be as smart on the 11-30.

All Caledonian-5 motorcycles have integrated force sensors: this is the 4iii on the Shimano and Quarq models on the SRAM.As you may have noticed, all motorcycles are supplied with a 30 mm road tyre at the front and rear. The motorcycle he was driving had those tyres fixed on Cervelo’s new wheel mark, called Reserve. I’ll write on the backup wheels. As for the length of the tires: I have mounted road tyres without Schwalbe’s Pro One air chamber on gravel, and it is the best length for elegant pavements, cracked and nested pavements and dirt that can be covered. Yes, you can drive with a tire as thin as you want on this motorcycle, but I prefer nothing thinner than 28 mm. All motorcycles in any of the frame styles come with the Cervelo accessory stand, and it’s so great that I’ve dedicated a segment to that.

What Cervelo designers like to say is that they have dissociated tampering with compatibility. What does that mean? Caledonia have compatibility just like the classic R3. For example, stacking and length diversity of 58 cm is 605 mm x 396 mm. It’s a pretty classic cut. It’s not running or holding. It’s a touch in the middle. The length of 56 cm has a stack and a diversity of 580 mm x 387 mm. I have had and flew the R3 of a length of 58 cm, which would make sense at my height of 6’2 “. However, the front of this motorcycle is really a little superior for me in a length of 58 cm. to drive it with the front component hit, gallows -17, and even in this case, it doesn’t have as much fall as you’d like. Why not mount the 56cm? Because it doesn’t last long enough for me “below the waist, “As I like to say. There near the ground: the wheelbase or, in my componenticular case, the “front/center”, which is the distance between the pedal and the front wheel axle.

This is where Caledonia gets interesting. Remember, this is the ad edition of what the R3 Mud was. It is designed to be flexible, comfortable and be in a long-term position on challenging terrain, racing like the Paris Roubaix. How do you do that? With a combination of a looser head angle (72 in my length) and much more fork change (50 mm). It does not replace the motorcycle above the length, as it fits, but literally adjusts the guide geometry and stability of the motorcycle. In fact, this 56 cm motorcycle has 4 mm more front/center than the original old R3 in 58 cm in length. The motorcycle also has a decrease of a few millimeters on the floor (decrease pedal box) than R series motorcycles: my length on this motorcycle is now 56 cm, not 58 cm. In addition, I drive it with the same duration of permits that I usually choose in 58 cm in length, because there is something in the ergonomics of the hydraulic brifters of SRAM that last the cab, at least for me. 2 bikes in 1. It measures 58 cm for a boy of my length, if you go with a slightly higher forehead. It’s a length of 56 cm for a guy of my length if you drive with a reduced forehead, and you can get away with it due to the longer wheelbase (it has a semi-long shaving chain at 415 mm) and especially the longest front/center. Stem / Guidon La Caledonia has a classic bar / gpermite. The Caledonia-5 has completely internal cables. I’ll give you cash if you find a cable. Cervelo has made life a little less difficult for you that you need to replace the height of your handlebars without disconnecting, releasing, confusing, reconnecting and purging the hydraulic brake lines. Its split seat straps allow you to raise and lower the handlebar height without incurring the hell of routing.

However! What if you want to replace the stem? You’re in hell. It is not an ox that I have with Cervelo; it’s a challenge for the entire bicycle industry. Cervelo sends the motorcycle to his LBS without the brake lines installed and purged, with the concept that he first mounts his gallows, then installs and purges the brakes. It’s a healthy reflex. The challenge, however, is that motorcycles will probably be built anyway, for floor exposure, and because you’ll want to check the ride. I don’t care. This is my point: be doubly convinced that you have the gallows you want on this motorcycle before you pass out. Make sure your LBS has Cervelo replacement rods in stock. And get the LBS guarantee that if you find that you want to bring this motorcycle to replace the gallows (within a moderate time, say a week or two), that the rider has the gallows on either side of the gallows of your motorcycle in inventory and that the rider is able to replace the gallows and purge the brakes free of charge to you. If you buy Caledonia, you don’t have to worry about everything. Only Caledonia-5 requires this attention to stem life. If you look at the pictures here, if you see wires, it’s Caledonia. If not, it is the Caledonia-5 accessory assembly. The happiest guy will be our own Matthew Hill. Matt writes about our lights; It covers many main units; and if it’s about security, Matt is our man. Matt just wrote about Cervelo’s accessory mount, not knowing it existed. He wrote about what he deserves to be of what he is, not knowing he was rolling about it.

Here’s what Matt wrote: “My friends, Go-Pro mounts aren’t just for cameras… I am a strong advocate of adopting a popular universal soft meeting for bicycles. It’s more than a little ridiculous that we’re reduced to soft zippered accessories and rubber straps on our thousands-dollar motorcycles, like a scream or a last-minute assignment. It’s more than time for motorcycle designers to come up with arrangements for a smooth assembly in those designs, and even though I think the “popular” to which those mounting problems deserve to adhere is still open to applicants regarding rear smoothing accessories, I will faint in a branch and recommend that the survey for front smoothing accessories has been read Array and the winner is the Go-Professional Mount.” With this in mind: in the images above and below there are a couple of brackets, front and rear. They are designed with the taste of GoPro. The rear aid is the curtain I set up for a Garmin Varia, and it’s built into the saddle bar help curtain. My configuration is designed to pass through the bag the saddle I use as spare parts. Cervelo designed it with this in mind.

The front aid adapts to the gallows. You can’t see it, but there’s a crack in the front plate of the Cervelo rod that accepts a sliding piece on which to screw this accessory. It slides so you can adjust the tilt accordingly. There is a double edition and a single edition of this mount included with your Caledonia, and double is what I took a picture of. The purpose of double is that you can mount your main unit in the most sensitive way (for your power sensor, general computer use, navigation and your Varia screen) and the help below is for your front care or your action camera. In Matt’s article, see that Matt has a double-sided Lezyne mounting formula in which a main unit is attached above, a soft Lezyne underneath, and all of this uses a GoPro-style mounting platform. (All this accessory mounting formula is included in all Caledonia models, both the “5” and “no 5”), is that I can’t configure Varia help as I did, as well as the main unit, with the hardware included. I’m a little piece of material. If I had any other help for the Garmin/Wahoo camera, it would be fine. Spare portions are obtained from K-Edge. However, I couldn’t guess exactly what to order on the K-Edge website. I’ll ask K-Edge to respond to this and place it in the Facebook comments below or directly to me and place an appendix to the article. In addition, Lezyne may have smoothing accessories and help for the main unit that will work. We’ll stay true to that.

The media shown here have discs for Wahoo and Garmin. Alone, one fun thing, you have to use the Wahoo stand for the Garmin Varia in my setup, because the Varia is oriented to 90 degrees from the Garmin washing machine when used with the Cervelo accessory holder. Anyway, the thing is, it’s great. From time to time, Cervelo offers the best for the secondary market. It almost never benefits, because Cervelo does not have a giant enough reseller base for a variety of accessory products. That said, Cervelo’s gallows (whose facade is designed to paint with this accessory stand), and its saddle bar (the same) and the same, are ahead of what any motorcycle company I know does. Just like when Trek originally introduced the Speed Concept by looking at all the bolts, bolts and garage in the frame design, Cervelo is the first road motorcycle logo I know to have incorporated a GoPro-style mounting formula into the design of its frame. Bravo.

Maybe it was just the express purple color of the motorcycle he had. I don’t know. I don’t care. My motorcycle shoes? Yes, I care. The motorcycle? Not so much. And if I care, it doesn’t matter because I have no flavor (apparently). So don’t take my word for it. Simply, other people who care and have flavor in motorcycle cosmetics, who are in my delight basically with women, have given me the specific Caledonia-5 that I have mounted four inches higher. (Ultegra Mechanical) and ends at $11,000, and that’s the AXS Network SRAM. For me, the ideal point of this motorcycle is AXS Force. It has speed, gearshift, I carry an ETap SRAM battery in my spare bag in case a battery breaks down and I haven’t had to use it yet. But it’s there if I want it. The Caledonia reaches a maximum of $4,500 (Ultegra Di2) and is a very convincing motorcycle at this price. It’s very difficult to overcome Shimano’s gear shift. Hit that. It’s overcoming Shimano’s change. This motorcycle has a low speed of 36x3four, not exactly the low speed I want, but close enough. The low price for the Caledonia is $2900 and this is the Shimano 105 gear change, the same gear, the same tire size of 30 mm. Caledonia and Caledonia-5 deserve to be in your local motorcycle shop right now, if this shop is dressed in Cervelo.

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