- You better believe that I am going to go and check out
said P5X.
Let's kick all the rules away.
If anyone wants to buy No Triathlon Kim.
Oh-ho-ho, traniacs. Trainiacs.
So, I just got a call from everyone's favorite bike shop,
Alter Ego, and they just got a super-bike and a rep
for said super-bike in the shop and I'm allowed
to come in and shoot as much of it as I want.
(mock pew-pew sounds)
It's an ice light.
Good for lighting things.
Not only is it a super-bike, it's the super-bike.
I don't know if you've noticed but I enjoy Cervelo.
Very big fan of Cervelo.
So, when I get a call from the bike shop that there is
a fully-functional P5X, one of the few that
are actually alive and kicking and don't exist
just on a piece of paper in a magazine;
in the city, minutes from my house, you better believe
that I am going to go and check out said P5X.
And we're going to take all the high-end stuff
to make a very beautiful video out of it.
I think I'm in the right place but I just can tell...
Oh.
- How's it going?
- How're you doing?
- Good. And you?
- Good. I'm Taren.
- Hey, I'm Phil.
(upbeat music)
- After drooling over this bike for long enough,
I present to you...
- Phil.
- From?
- Canmore, Alberta.
- Tell us about the bike.
- P5X is a partnership
between Cervelo, Enve, and HED.
Enve taking care of the wheels and the front cockpit.
The frame itself is made in the HED factory
and Cervelo engineering designed the bike itself.
The main purpose of this after many sort
of in-depth analysis or discussions with
the triathlon communities was that weight wasn't really
a factor.
It was all about nutrition, versatility, if you will.
Packability, how easy to pack it when you're
transporting the bike.
- Right.
- And fit, of course.
- How much does it weigh?
- It's probably--
- 17?
- No, it's like 20-21, probably. If not more.
With all those elements in mind,
they wanted to ultimately beat the P5 in terms
of aerodynamics.
Obviously, in terms of nutrition,
everything being integrated.
Your little bento box which goes in deep.
- All the way down.
- Yep.
And you can block that off as well.
A little tray for your salt tabs or any
other little goodies you want.
Some compartments as well.
This whole unit in the middle here is removable.
Depends on your own choices, if you will.
So, again, good place for extra supplies
and another little toolkit option.
Three bottle spaces as well in the front.
You have one on top here if you have
this middle compartment or you can take it off
and have your bottle in a standard position.
And in the back mount as well.
- And you're saying that it's designed
for all round bottles.
So, you don't have to have a $90 bottle
that's specially-designed for the frame.
- Exactly. Yeah.
And that's what you getting on course as well
is round bottles.
So, it just makes it convenient
from that perspective.
- What about the adjustability?
- So, fit being a big priority, not only for the customer,
but for the shop as well.
Typically, on our previous P5, it's a pretty big ordeal
to actually just add or remover a spacer for that matter.
So, in this case, a simple one-screw adjustment
and the entire front-end cockpit will lower and adjust.
- A ton of adjustability on the...
- Yeah, on the seat post.
- On the seat post, yeah.
- Give or take, I think...
I can't remember the exact...
I think it's like 20.
- 20 centimeters?
- Yeah.
So, the same action you would get on the seat post,
you would get on the front cockpit here.
Let's say we've done an adjustment here with James.
We want to go out on the...
You know, you're out riding...
No, I need a solid adjustment, you can do it yourself.
- Really?
- Yeah.
The pads are, you know.
You've got multiple positions.
You can actually reverse them, bring them in or out.
The bar will actually tilt as well.
And the base bar can be flipped around
depending on preferences.
- Flipped?
- Yes.
- That one, right? - Yep.
- To bring them up higher.
- Yeah. Exactly.
This leads to the packability of the bike.
The whole bike breaks apart in about seven Allen screws.
(laughs)
So, four of them being part of the base bar right here.
These four you remove. The bar collapses.
- Right. Each of the handlebars,
they fold down like a wing, right?
- Exactly, yep.
They'll fold right down and then the bag,
which is specifically designed for the bike itself,
comes with a nice set of pads which are custom-made
for the front end.
- Okay.
- So, you remove the front cockpit,
the arms fold down, everything's super nice and tidy.
Take the seat post off, strap it down and, honestly,
it's a less than 10 minute process to either take apart
or put back together.
- What's been the feedback from age-groupers?
- Very positive. Very in line with what the pros are saying.
Often, the P5X customer has had a P5
in the past and rides as...
In terms of control stability,
that's what they notice the most.
And a lot of that has to do with the thru-axle construction.
Going to disc, especially on a TT-like,
or on a triathlon-specific bike,
is not about the braking because, lets face it,
we don't brake that often.
What it does do is, by having the thru-axle go
through the front fork, you're having a lot more
control stability enhanced on the front
and rear end of the bike.
So, you're able to maneuver the bike with
that much more ease.
- Right, because the momentum isn't on the outside
being amplified by the spin of the wheel.
- Exactly.
Also, in the design, you're creating a bit of
an asymmetrical design in the front fork or a triangle
where you're adding a little bit of stiffness
and strength to the front fork and rear triangle
to accommodate for the forces of that disc.
So, as such, you're going to get a stiffer front
and rear end by default as well.
- What does this end up accomplishing?
Taking out the seat tube?
- Yeah, this goes back to the initial design of the bike.
So, when the engineering team sat down to design
the project, they were basically,
"Okay, let's take all the rules away.
"Leave the ones that are actually necessary
"in terms of where do we require the strength
"and where we don't."
And they plugged in all this information into
a supercomputer and basically gave the computer a box.
"This is the parameters we do have to follow."
And basically let the computer work and,
in terms of a general form, this is what it came out with.
- Really?
- The seat tube actually wasn't there so it's not necessary
for the integrity of keeping that strength
in the general design of the bike.
This is essentially what the computer came out, roughly.
- Explain what...
SRAM?
- eTap wireless...
- Wireless electronic?
- And so, basically, four or five components.
Your front derailleur, rear derailleur.
The blips which you also have on the base bar
and on the top.
- Those are actually your shifters, as well.
- Yep.
- And the control module which is tucked in here, as well.
So, you plug in the wiring and everything is done.
Essentially, the only wires that are connected
to anything are to the gear-shifters. Yep.
So, this is what's powering the eTap,
- It weighs about, I don't know, an ounce.
- Yeah, and if you get--
Yeah, you can just switch and use your front derailleur
less than you do your rear derailleur.
Just swap them out.
Take the front, put it on the rear, etc.
So, super-easy.
So, with this, we've got with eTap, $16,000.
- Canadian or U.S.? - Canadian.
And then, we have the Ultegra Di2 version with HED.
$11,500 CAD.
- So, watch all the skip-able ads before my Youtube videos
and we'll get that Adsense money going.
And in just 17 years, I can afford one of these.
(laughs)
That's awesome.
- Right on. - Okay.
- Yeah. - Thank you.
- Thank you. - Thank you.
Well, trainiacs, if anyone wants to buy
No Triathlon Kim, I think that that might get me enough
for the bike.
Don't tell her I said that.
So, what do you think, trainiacs?
Comment below.
I think it's a very polarizing bike because
it doesn't look like a normal bike and it shouldn't
look like a normal bike because it aint a normal bike.
So, people either love it or they hate it.
Which I did at the start.
But knowing what I know about the bike now
and hearing all about that ogling it for the past two hours,
I'm into it.
I am so into it.
Thanks, Alter Ego.
Jeff, James, Heather. The Tri-Guy.
The Tri-Guy actually works there.
Rick. Everyone at Alter Ego.
Such good people.
Thanks for letting me take over a corner of the place
for two and a half hours.
Later, trainiacs.