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Cervelo P5X
The official announcement isn't until tomorrow, but some photos have leaked. Diamondback Andean on the bottom, Dimond on the top.
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@Matt - Is the new BMC out in the wild yet? ETA: Never Mind. Just saw the post in the other thread. Agreed 100%.
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$2,900 for the wheels
$1,600 for the etap aero shift
$600 or so for the brakes
$750 for the front end
$150 for tires and tubes
$500 for crank and chain
$5000 for the frame and fork and plastic bottles and bentos
$2000 to $3000 for the Cervelo Tax
I know these are retail prices and not 'manufacturer build kit prices', but holy mother of.... We're looking at probably USD$12.5k+ easy, or 'more than the sum of the prices of every bike and component I have ever purchased since childhood.' I'll be sticking to the sub 70.3 distances for another year or two, but watching for the inevitable deals on 'old school' TT bikes.
ETA: Grumpy old man bit aside, I really hope Heather W wins on it this year.
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I wish I could find that picture of him looking like a Spin Doctors reject.
Edit: How about it?
https://imgur.com/a/Nm7WW
New Cube?
Better shot of P5X
These are all stolen from TriRig, but right now his site is shitting the bed.
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Somebody with more bike knowledge than I have: why would Cervelo and Diamondback spec mechanical disc brakes on these bikes? I would have thought the performance/routing benefits of hydraulic would make sense on a premium cost bike.
I'm sure they all look better in person but I'm not drooling over the pictures.
Edit: I am surprised at the fact that they can even make this profitable. They need multiple molds for each size. The superbikes for Specialized and Trek for example share a lot with the mid-tier bikes, saving costs. The only real difference between my Shiv Comp from 2012 and a new S-Works fancy-pants one is carbon layup and components. Is there value in that high-end version, sure, but they can maintain healthy profits in doing so and their molds are long paid off at this point.
I am in manufacturing but not a bike manufacturing expert so take my 2 cents with a grain of salt. I do however have a tooling department of my own and have to make similar decisions on a daily basis.