- I'm here with the bike of Kenneth Vandendriessche
from Belgium.
A professional athlete who is a 70.3 champion
and two times European long-distance Triathlon champion.
And this bike here that he's gonna be riding
for the 2019 season is the Cervelo P5.
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Kenneth is here training on Lanzarote
and therefore has the bike set up for training purposes,
so now I'm gonna take a closer look at how that's set up.
We're starting with the frame set.
Kenneth has the standard P fibres that come out of the box,
he's riding in the 54 centimetre frame size
and the colorway again is standard
it's a really cool matte black
with yellow touch there at the back
which quite luckily matches the colours
of his ITZU Triathlon team
that he races for in this season.
And yeah I just think it's a really sleek looking befkit.
So moving on to the front end of the bike,
We've got the standard cockpit as it comes from Cervelo
and Kenneth here has the one-piece 3T Aduro bar
that has the 3-T ultimate ski bend extensions
coming directly out of that one-piece bar.
He doesn't have any extra spaces or risers
to lift his arm pads up at all,
so he's really in quite an aggressive aerodynamic
and low position here on the bike.
And as we can see with these ski bends,
they've actually been cut quite low
so there's not any tearable amount of ski bend there
for Kenneth.
And on the end of a ski bends he's got his blips
or his buttons for his SRAM eTap shifting there.
He has his Wahoo element computer there tucked in
just so he can see that nice and easy in the aero position.
And then finishing off chatting about the front end,
we've got the standard Magura hydraulic brakes
that come with the P5.
The junction box sits just behind the Aero bars
on the integrated system,
that's for his SRAM eat up shifting
that he's using on the bike.
Moving down onto the fort here,
we see the integrated Magura brakes
that are hidden really nice
behind this well integrated fitting
that sits just atop the fork.
And then that moves us into the wheel set
that Kenneth is running on this bike,
for his training purposes at the moment.
But it's still quite a nice-looking set of wheels,
fast forward 40 mil deep sections
or semi deep sections I suppose,
carbon rim with an alloy braking surface clincher wheels
on this bike and to finish off that wheel set,
Kenneth has continental GP 4000 25 mil tyres.
So moving on to the group set
that Kenneth's using here in the bike.
It comes as standard from Cervelo
with a SRAM eTap group set front and rear derailleurs
for his electronic shifting.
However you will probably notice
that he has actually got the Dura-Ace 9100 crank set
on his bike.
That's so that Kenneth can run his chosen pioneer parameter.
He will eventually change that
as the season goes on however.
These cranks are fitted with 42/54 chain rings,
they are standard one 172.5 mil crank lamps
and they're fitted
with the accompanying Shimano 9100 Dura-Ace pedals.
And to complete the group set,
we have SRAM chain on here
and he has actually an Ultegra 11 speed cassette
on these training wheels
and currently running an 11/25 block.
Saddle choice for Kenneth is the pro Aero fuel version.
He's got that sitting in a fairly neutral looking position
on the seat post there
and to accompany the rear of the saddle,
he's got a profile design attachment
that allows him to use the really well-known
Xlab Gorilla cage,
which really stops bottles rattling out too much
on bumpy roads.
And similarly on the front,
he has a profile design water bottle cage too.
I'm really pleased to see this P5 as a bike
that a pro is using for this season
because well these bikes have kind of been superseded
by the P5x that Cervelo brought out,
which is an incredible Superbike.
But let's not forget this bike itself, the P5,
was without a doubt a trailblazer
in the integrated aerodynamic TT market.
And rightly so because it really is a stunning
bit of equipment.
Now as I've said this bike is set up for training purposes
at the moment with Kenneth riding it.
But we're gonna have a chat to Kenneth now
about how he tweaks his bike to get it ready for race day.
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Kenneth's joined us now.
So he's gonna start talking us through
how he gets his bike ready for race day.
So Kenneth, talking about the front end,
I didn't specifically talk
about the grippy bar tape you've got on here.
Do you wanna chat about that quickly?
- So I actually chose for lizard-skin,
it just gives a nice feeling when I'm when I'm descending
for example especially also here when you're training
in the warm temperature like when I'm not racing
in South Africa.
- You get sloppy hands.
- Yeah, and then with lizard-skin can you just have
that grip and that's actually what you need
to have the confidence also.
- Sure and it means also especially in a race
where we never wear gloves anyway,
you don't have to worry about getting sweaty
and sloppy hands that's really good idea I like
that because it's really quite grippy isn't it?
- Yeah, I really love it, really of it.
- So talking about the Race for Food Nutrition,
you're adding in a storage box?
- Yeah storage box to put my shells in.
- So you just screw that in there?
- Yeah screw them.
- Perfect, and then as we said nothing else changes,
you use a standard bottle cage so that it's easy
to pick up bottles and then--
- And then just put them back here.
- Perfect.
Okay so we've got training wheels on the bike
but come race day that changes right?
- Yeah of course,
to the front they go for a 60 millimetre,
fast forward carbon wheels just no alloy--
- No breaking stuff your full carbon rim?
- Yeah full carbon and then at the back
it depends also on the course mostly it's a disc,
but in better conditions over there,
there's a lot of in climbing courses,
it can be also 68--
- Same as the front of the, yeah,
so quite a light setup.
And then do you change your tyre choice
or you stay on the GP 4000?
- I go to blue so, yeah.
- The other thing that you actually change come race day
and a lot of athletes do too is new chain
and pull wheels right?
- Yeah, from karmic speeds so the karmic speeds chain
goes on it and then oversize pullies that also go over it.
- And you just add that just before race day
and just do almost no extra riding on that chain
before race day.
- Well there's 60 to 100 kilometres before
just to get warm--
- Just warming up.
- But then I take it off again and then I just train
on the--
- And then save that special chain for camp, yeah?
And do you change cassette ratios or anything for instance?
- It it depends also on the courses
but normally it's 11/25.
- It gives you a good range doesn't?
So one quick other question
this obvious is not the P5x,
why aren't you riding on that?
- For me it's actually a choice
because I'm racing a lot of hilly courses,
hard courses--
- And it's a heavier bike.
- Yeah, it's a heavier bike.
If I would just go the fast flat course
that would also go to the P5x
but now I'm preferring the P5
and I also know that soon a new P5 this version so, yeah.
- So then you have almost all the benefits of the P5x
on this lighter, more versatile bike?
- Yeah.
- Oh great well good luck with that,
thanks for talking through everything for us, okay?
That's been great.
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