fitting a Cervelo demo R5?
On a recent ride, I found a shop local to the day job, Cupertino Cycles, had a Cervelo Demo R5. Cool! Since reading the RCa White Paper, I've always wanted to try one. Indeed, I've never ridden any of the Cervelo R-series. Recall, perhaps, the Peloton magazine review of the RCa , the prototype which led to the present R5: There is a fury to the way the bike reacts to power -- it leaps from under you, but the feeling continues beyond the initial acceleration. Each pedal stroke delivers a new surge forward. Who wouldn't want to ride this? Deal is the Cervelo geometry is, as I've described, a bit tall. So it isn't obvious what frame to try. But is low-stack over-rates? So what I did is I started with the geometry for the Fuji SL/1, which is my race bike (since I've done little racing recently, the poor thing is getting neglected). I started with the geometry of the size small, which I ride. I use a +6 degree 11 cm stem at present (I used to use a ...