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MATERIAL CRUSH

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The success of a product depends on the fact that kit. But as it is a bike on which you will spend more
it must first of all know how to meet the needs of time training as racing... It must also enable you to
its user ! put a windbreaker, sleeves or anything else.
The first mission of the development team was to
identify the needs. To do so, millions of pictures Ease of positioning and setting. The bike must have
have been taken during the 70.3 St George and a wide range of settings and the adjustments must
the IM Nice and Klagenfurt. The main tendencies be easy and quick... Even during a ride !
have been deducted from these pictures :
Aero: The bike must be at least as aero as its
- Hydration : number and types of bottles, predecessor the P5.
place of bottles,...
Rigidity : Likewise, the goal was to reach the same
- Nutrition : bento box, gels on the frame,... rigidity than on the P5, no more and no less. .
- Repair kit
- positioning Ease of transport : Considering the fact that the
triathlete has to travel regularly, the bike must
5 main development points have been be wrapped in a minimum time and with no
defined, by order of priority : mechanical constraints

Storage. The bike must allow each athlete to
adopt his favorite configuration. Thus it must be
able to receive 3 round bottles (and not aero for
practicability and efficiency) and to offer sufficient
storage spaces as much for nutrition as for a repair

2nd step. The experimentation

The P5, thanks to its success, has contributed to optimization (allowing to define where it is
the development of the P5X. necessary to «put» some material), have resulted
in the final design of the Frame-set.
How ? By directly testing on it the considered
solutions. The idea is to be able to do testings as The final look of the P5X has been designed to
quickly as possible, in order to exclude the solution meet the needs of the triathlete, and not from a
or to validate it (Test Fast, Fail Fast). will of Cervélo to create a beam bike to keep up
with the times.
From these experimentations the first sketches
were born, and associated with a topological

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