Cervélo

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Cervélo Cycles Inc.

Type	Private
Industry	Bicycles
Founded	1995 (1995)
Founder	Gerard Vroomen Phil White
Headquarters	Santa Cruz, California, U.S. [1]
Products	Bicycles and related components
Revenue	CAN$11,100,000 (est.) (2004)[2]
Number of employees	undisclosed
Website	www.cervelo.com

2010 Cervélo RS road bike

Cervélo bicycles, used by the Team Dimension Data cycling team, at the 2016 Tour of Britain.

Cervélo Cycles is a Canadian manufacturer of racing and track bicycles. Cervélo uses CAD, computational fluid dynamics, and wind tunnel testing at a variety of facilities including the San Diego Air and Space Technology Center, in California, US, to aid its designs. Frame materials include carbon fibre. Cervélo currently makes 5 series of bikes: the C series and R series of road bikes, the latter featuring multi-shaped, "Squoval" frame tubes; the S series of road bikes and P series of triathlon/time trial bikes, both of which feature airfoil shaped down tubes; and the T series of track bikes.^[3] In professional competition, cyclists have ridden Cervélo bicycles to victory in all of three of road cycling's grand tours: the Tour de France;^[4] the Giro d'Italia;^[5] and the Vuelta a España.^[6]

History[]

Gerard Vroomen, one of the two founders of the company, started researching bike dynamics at the Eindhoven University of Technology. He took his knowledge to Canada to continue the research in McGill University. In 1995, Vroomen and Phil White founded Cervélo Cycles. The name Cervélo is a portmanteau of cervello, the Italian word for brain, and vélo, the French word for bike.^[2]

In May 2011,^[7] Vroomen sold his stake in Cervélo to pursue new projects,^[8] although he is nominally still involved with the company at the board level.^[9] Cervélo is now owned by Pon Holdings, a Dutch company that also owns Gazelle, and Derby Cycle. The company makes or has marketing rights to bicycles from Raleigh, Kalkhoff, Univega, Focus Bikes, Ghost, and Santa Cruz Bicycles.^[10]

A book titled, To Make Riders Faster, was released in April 2018 telling the story of Gerard Vroomen and Phil White meeting at McGill University and taking their company from a school basement project in Montreal, Canada, to their bikes winning in the Tour de France, the Olympics and Ironman.

Professional sport[]

Cervélo's sponsorship of elite athletes has led to widespread recognition of the brand.

In 2003, Cervélo became the bike supplier to Team CSC, at the time the 14th team on the world ranking. Aside possibly from LeMond Bicycles and their collaborations with Merlin Metalworks^[11] and Calfee Design,^[12] Cervélo may have been the smallest and youngest bike company to ever supply a team at this level. Team CSC was crowned the world's #1 pro cycling team aboard Cervélo for three years. The partnership lasted for six years, until the end of 2008.

In 2009, Cervélo became the first bike manufacturer in the modern era to have its own cycling team at the highest levels of racing, Cervélo TestTeam. The team had a stated goal of not only competing successfully on the international level, but also encouraging collaboration between the team members, Cervélo, and other product sponsorship partners in order to develop better products.^[13] There was also a strong focus on fan interaction and experiences. The team's most renowned riders were 2008 Tour De France winner Carlos Sastre and 2010 World Champion and 2009 TdF Green Jersey winner Thor Hushovd. Heinrich Haussler also took many of the team's headlines, with his impressive performances at Paris–Nice, Milan–San Remo, and his stage win in the 2009 Tour de France (Stage 13, Colmar).

In 2010, Emma Pooley and Thor Hushovd won the UCI Women's Timetrial and UCI Men's Road Race respectively. Success was also achieved in a number of ITU Triathlon Races and the Ironman 70.3 and long distance events.

For the 2011 season, Cervélo has joined forces with Slipstream sports to form the Garmin-Cervélo team, which also includes a women's team. This partnership lasted until the end of the 2014 season.

For the 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 season, they have provided bikes to MTN-Qhubeka that turned into Team Dimension-Data for Qhubeka in 2016.

From the 2021 season, Cervélo sponsors Team Jumbo–Visma.

International racing success[]

Italian cyclist Ivan Basso of CSC riding his Cervélo P3C time-trial bicycle during stage 20 (ITT) of the 2005 Tour de France.

In 2006 Team CSC rider Fabian Cancellara won Paris-Roubaix on a Cervelo Soloist. In 2007 Team CSC rider Stuart O'Grady won Paris-Roubaix on a Cervelo Soloist.

On 13 October 2007 triathlete Chrissie Wellington of the UK won the Ford Ironman world championship in Kailua-Kona, HI. Her bike in the 180 km ride was the Cervélo P2C^[14] with which she posted the quickest split time [for pro women] of 5:06:15; four minutes faster than her nearest opponent.

On 27 July 2008, Carlos Sastre of Spain won the Tour de France on Soloist SLC-SL and R3-SL Cervélo framesets. It was Cervélo's first Tour win.^[15]

From 2003 to 2008, Cervélo enjoyed the partnership with team CSC/Saxobank with whom they achieved a number of wins on the professional racing circuit. Wins from Fabian Cancellara in the UCI World Timetrial championships, Olympic road and timetrial podium finishes for both Fabian Cancellara and tradeteam teammate Gustav Erik Larsson. In addition to these high-profile victories, Cervélo bikes were also ridden to overall success in the Tour de France team classification and ProTour team classifications.

Cervélo are one of the few manufacturers who have produced an aluminium frame that achieved success against carbon fibre road bicycles, with the Soloist. The Cervelo Soloist Team from the 2003 - 2005 UCI ProTour season was ridden to success by Team CSC in some of the historical cycling races held in Europe, such as the Criterium International and the Paris-Nice stage race. The Soloist Carbon from the 2006 - 2007 UCI ProTour season was ridden to success in the Giro d'Italia and Paris-Roubaix twice.

Cervélo are the only manufacturer to produce an aero-road frame (Soloist) that has won on the cobbled road race classics, with additional wins from the S-series bicycles notably in the 2009 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and 2010 Tour de France (Stage 3) by Thor Hushovd.^[16]

In 2011, Garmin-Cervélo rode the updated (BBright bottom bracket and tapered head tube) R3 frame in the cobbled classics, with Johan Van Summeren winning Paris-Roubaix.

Today, Cervélo is the world's largest manufacturer of time trial and triathlon bikes^{[citation needed]}, as determined in industry counts including decisive wins for the past fifteen^[17] years at the prestigious Kona bike count. The winner of the 2008 Tour de France, Carlos Sastre, did so on a Cervélo. At the Beijing Olympics Cervélo bikes were ridden by over forty Olympic athletes, resulting in three Gold, five Silver and two Bronze medals – a record.^[18] In 2011, the Cervélo S3 received numerous awards from cycling publications including being selected as Editors' Pick in VeloNews' Aero Road Bike Test and Best Race Bike in the Bicycling Magazine Editors' Choice Awards.

Models[]

Awards, sponsorship and victories[]

Awards[]

2016

Gran Fondo Design & Innovation Award: Cervélo S5 DA DI2^[19]

2018

Red Dot Design Award: Cervélo P5X^[20]

220 Triathlon: Bike Brand of the Year^[21]

VeloNews Gear Awards 2018 | For the speed demon: Cervélo S5^[22]

Sponsorship[]

Team CSC (2003-2008)^[23]

CSC–Saxo Bank (2008)

Cervélo TestTeam (2009-2010)

Team Garmin−Cervélo (2011)^[24]

Team Garmin−Barracuda (2012)

Garmin−Sharp (2012-2014)

MTN–Qhubeka (2015)^[25]

Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka (2016-2018)

Team Sunweb (2019-2020)^[26]

Team Jumbo–Visma (2021-Indefinite)^[27]

Significant victories[]

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2003

Tour de France

1st Team CSC, Team classification

Stages 10, 13 & 16

Liège–Bastogne–Liège

1st Tyler Hamilton, General classification

National road cycling championships

1st Nicki Sørensen, Denmark Men's National Road Race Champion

1st Michael Blaudzun, Denmark Men's National Time Trial Champion

Stage 3, International Tour of Rhodos, Thomas Bruun Eriksen

Internationale Niedersachsen-Rundfahrt, Nicolas Jalabert

CSC Classic, Jakob Piil

Overall Tour de Romandie, Tyler Hamilton Stage 5, Tyler Hamilton

Stage 2 Four Days of Dunkirk, Lars Michaelsen

Stage 5 Peace Race, Thomas Bruun Eriksen

Wachovia Cycling Series – Lancaster, Jakob Piil Wachovia Cycling Series – Trenton, Julian Dean

Tour de Wallonie 2.3, Belgium, Julian Dean Stages 4 & 5, Julian Dean

Stage 2, Internationale Hessen-Rundfahrt, Lars Michaelsen

Stage 2, Circuit Franco-Belge, Julian Dean

Firenze-Pistoria, Andrea Peron

2004

Tour de France

Stage 12

Paris–Nice

1st Jörg Jaksche, General classification

Critérium International

1st Jens Voigt, General classification

Stage 1

National road cycling championships

1st Michael Blaudzun, Denmark Men's National Road Race Champion

1st Michael Sandstød, Denmark Men's National Time Trial Champion

Overall Tour de Méditeranéen, Jörg Jaksche Stage 5, Jörg Jaksche

Stage 5a, Tour of the Basque Country, Jens Voigt Stage 5b, Tour of the Basque Country, Bobby Julich

GP S.A.T.S., Frank Høj

CSC Classic, Kurt Asle Arvesen

Bayern-Rundfahrt, Jens Voigt

Stage 2, Tour de Wallonie, Fabrizio Guidi

LuK Challenge - Bühl, Bobby Julich and Jens Voigt

Overall Danmark Rundt, Kurt Asle Arvesen Stage 2, Fabrizio Guidi Stage 4, Jens Voigt

Giro dell'Emilia, Ivan Basso

2005

Giro d'Italia

Stages 17 & 18

Vuelta a España

Stage 18

Paris–Nice

1st Bobby Julich, General classification

1st Jens Voigt, Points classification

1st Team CSC, Best team

Stage Prologue

Critérium International

1st Bobby Julich, General classification

National road cycling championships

1st Lars Bak, Denmark Men's Elite Road Race Champion

1st Michael Blaudzun, Denmark Men's Elite Time Trial Champion

1st Fränk Schleck, Luxembourg Men's Elite Road Race Champion

1st Andy Schleck, Luxembourg Men's Elite Time Trial Champion

GP Ouverture la Marseillaise, Nicki Sørensen

Overall Tour of Qatar, Lars Michaelsen Stage 3, Lars Michaelsen

Stage 3, Etoile de Bességes, Jens Voigt

Overall Tour Méditeranéen, Jens Voigt Stages 1 & 3, Tour Méditeranéen, Jens Voigt Stage 4 (TTT)

Stage 4, Tour de Georgia, Brian Vandborg

GP Herning, Michael Blaudzun

Stage 4 Bayern-Rundfahrt, Jens Voigt

Stage 4, Sachsen-Tour International, Allan Johansen Stage 5, Sachsen-Tour International, Christian Müller

LuK Challenge Chrono Bühl, Bobby Julich and Jens Voigt

Overall Danmark Rundt, Ivan Basso Stages 1, 2, 3 & 5, Ivan Basso

Tour de l'Avenir, Lars Bak Stage 1, Lars Bak Stage 5, Christian Müller

Paris–Bourges, Lars Bak

Stage 5 Tour of the Basque Country, Jens Voigt

Stage 7 Tour de Suisse, Linus Gerdemann

Overall Eneco Tour, Bobby Julich Stage 7, Bobby Julich

2006

Giro d'Italia

1st Ivan Basso, General classification

Stages 5, 8, 16 & 20

Tour de France

Stages 13, 15 & 17

Vuelta a España

Stage 1

UCI Road World Championships

1st Fabian Cancellara, Men's time trial

Paris–Roubaix

1st Fabian Cancellara

Critérium International

1st Ivan Basso, General classification

Tour of Britain

1st Martin Pedersen

Deutschland Tour

1st Jens Voigt, Gelbes Trikot (General classification)

Stages 2, 6 & 7

National road cycling championships

1st Peter Luttenberger, Austria Men's Elite Time Trial Champion

1st Brian Vandborg, Denmark Men's Elite Time Trial Champion

1st Kurt Asle Arvesen, Norway Men's Elite Time Trial Champion

1st Fabian Cancellara, Switzerland Men's Elite Time Trial Champion

1st David Zabriskie, United States Men's Elite Time Trial Champion

Stage 2 (TTT), Settimana Ciclistica Internazional

Stage 2b, Circuit de la Sarthe, Ivan Basso

Klasika Primavera, Carlos Sastre

Stage 1, Tour de Georgia, Lars Michaelsen

GP Herning, Allan Johansen

Overall, Tour de Luxembourg, Christian Vande Velde Stage 1, Allan Johansen Overall, Ster Elektrotoer, Kurt Asle Arvesen Stage 4, Ster Elektrotoer, Jens Voigt

Stages 3 & 5, Sachsen Tour, Andy Schleck

Stage 2, Paris–Corrèze, Marcus Ljungqvist

Overall, Danmark Rundt, Fabian Cancellara Stages 2 & 5, Fabian Cancellara

Rund um die Hainleite, Jens Voigt

Giro Bochum, Jens Voigt

Stage 2 & 5, 3-Länder-Tour, Karsten Kroon Stage 4, 3-Länder-Tour, Luke Roberts

Prologue Paris–Nice, Bobby Julich

Stage 5 (ITT) Tirreno–Adriatico, Fabian Cancellara

Amstel Gold Race, Fränk Schleck

Stage 1 Volta a Catalunya, Fabian Cancellara

Eindhoven Team Time Trial, Team CSC

2007

Tour de France

Stages Prologue & 3

UCI Road World Championships

1st Fabian Cancellara, Men's time trial

Giro d'Italia

Stage 8

Paris–Roubaix

1st Stuart O'Grady

Critérium International

1st Jens Voigt, General classification

Deutschland Tour

1st Jens Voigt, Gelbes Trikot (General classification)

National road cycling championships

1st Fabian Cancellara, Switzerland Men's Elite Time Trial Champion

Stages 2 & 6 Tour of California, Juan José Haedo Stage 3 Tour of California, Jens Voigt

Rund um Köln, Juan José Haedo

Stage 7, Tour de Georgia, Juan José Haedo

GP Herning 1.1, Denmark, Kurt Asle Arvesen

Overall Danmark Rundt, Kurt Asle Arvesen Stage 2, Matti Breschel Stage 3, Kurt Asle Arvesen

Stage 2 Tour of Ireland, Matti Breschel

Stage 3 Tour of Britain, Matthew Goss

Stage 3 Paris–Nice, Alexandr Kolobnev

Stages 1 & 9 2007 Tour de Suisse, Fabian Cancellara

2007 Eindhoven Team Time Trial

2008

Tour de France

1st Carlos Sastre, General classification

1st Carlos Sastre, Mountains classification

1st Andy Schleck, Young rider classification

1st CSC–Saxo Bank, Team classification

Stages 11, 17 & 20

Summer Olympic Games

1st Fabian Cancellara, Men's time trial

1st Joan Llaneras, Men's points race

2nd Roger Kluge, Men's points race

2nd Fabian Cancellara, Men's road race

2nd Simon Whitfield, Men's triathlon

2nd  Spain (ESP) (Joan Llaneras & Antonio Tauler), Men's Madison

1st Kristin Armstrong, Women's time trial

3rd Karin Thürig, Women's time trial

2009

Tour de France

1st Thor Hushovd, Points classification

Stages 6 & 13

Giro d'Italia

Stages 14, 16, 19 & 21

2010

Tour de France

Stage 3

UCI Road World Championships

1st Thor Hushovd, Men's road race

2011

Tour de France

1st Garmin–Cervélo, Team classification

Stages 2, 3, 13 & 16

Giro d'Italia

Stage 21

Vuelta a España

Stage 9

Paris–Roubaix

1st Johan Vansummeren

Tour Down Under

1st Cameron Meyer, General classification

1st Cameron Meyer, Young rider classification

Stage 4

2012

Tour de France

Stage 12

Giro d'Italia

1st Ryder Hesjedal, General classification

1st Trofeo Super Team (Team points classification), Team Garmin−Barracuda

Stage 4

Summer Olympic Games

2nd Lizzie Armitstead, Women's road race

National road cycling championships

1st Fabian Wegmann, Germany Men's Elite Road Race Champion

1st Robert Hunter, South Africa Men's Elite Road Race Champion

1st Ramūnas Navardauskas, Lithuania Men's Elite Time Trial Champion

1st David Zabriskie, United States Men's Elite Time Trial Champion

2013

Tour de France

Stage 9

Giro d'Italia

Stage 11

Volta a Catalunya

1st Dan Martin, General classification

1st Garmin–Sharp, Team classification

Stage 4

Liège–Bastogne–Liège

1st Dan Martin

2013 Paris–Nice

Stage 3

2014

Tour de France

Stage 19

Vuelta a España

Stage 14

Critérium du Dauphiné

1st Andrew Talansky, General classification

Tour of Britain

1st Dylan van Baarle, General classification

2014 Paris–Nice

Stages 4 & 7

Giro di Lombardia

1st Dan Martin

National road cycling championships

1st Sebastian Langeveld, Netherlands Men's Elite Road Race Champion

1st Ramūnas Navardauskas, Lithuania Men's Elite Time Trial Champion

1st Steele Von Hoff, Australia National Criterium Champion

2015

Tour de France

Stages 14

Vuelta a España

Stage 10

Tour of Britain

1st Edvald Boasson Hagen, General classification

National road cycling championships

1st Natnael Berhane, Eritrea Men's Elite Road Race Champion

1st Edvald Boasson Hagen, Norway Men's Elite Road Race Champion

1st Jacques Janse van Rensburg, South Africa Men's Elite Road Race Champion

1st Daniel Teklehaimanot, Eritrea Men's Elite Time Trial Champion

1st Edvald Boasson Hagen, Norway Men's Elite Time Trial Champion

2016

Tour de France

Stages 1, 3, 6 & 14

Vuelta a España

1st Omar Fraile, Mountains classification

Summer Olympic Games

1st  Great Britain (GBR) (Ed Clancy, Steven Burke, Owain Doull & Bradley Wiggins), Men's team pursuit

1st  Great Britain (GBR) (Philip Hindes, Jason Kenny & Callum Skinner), Men's team sprint

1st Jason Kenny, Men's keirin

1st Jason Kenny, Men's sprint

2nd Callum Skinner, Men's sprint

2nd Mark Cavendish, Men's omnium

1st  Great Britain (GBR) (Katie Archibald, Laura Trott, Elinor Barker & Joanna Rowsell Shand), Women's team pursuit

1st Laura Trott, Women's omnium

2nd Becky James, Women's keirin

2nd Becky James, Women's sprint

3rd Katy Marchant, Women's sprint

Tour of Britain

1st Steve Cummings, General classification

Tour of Qatar

1st Mark Cavendish, General classification

Stages 1 & 3

Track Cycling World Championships

1st Bradley Wiggins, Men's madison

National road cycling championships

1st Kanstantsin Sivtsov, Belarus Men's Elite Road Race Champion

1st Daniel Teklehaimanot, Eritrea Men's Elite Road Race Champion

1st Edvald Boasson Hagen, Norway Men's Elite Road Race Champion

1st Jaco Venter, South Africa Men's Elite Road Race Champion

1st Kanstantsin Sivtsov, Belarus Men's Elite Time Trial Champion

1st Daniel Teklehaimanot, Eritrea Men's Elite Time Trial Champion

1st Edvald Boasson Hagen, Norway Men's Elite Time Trial Champion

1st Adrien Niyonshuti, Rwanda Men's Elite Time Trial Champion

2017

Tour de France

Stage 19

Giro d'Italia

Stage 11

National road cycling championships

1st Youcef Reguigui, Algeria Men's Elite Road Race Champion

1st Steve Cummings, Great Britain Men's Elite Road Race Champion

1st Reinardt Janse van Rensburg, South Africa Men's Elite Road Race Champion

1st Steve Cummings, Great Britain Men's Elite Time Trial Champion

1st Mekseb Debesay, Eritrea Men's Elite Time Trial Champion

1st Edvald Boasson Hagen, Norway Men's Elite Time Trial Champion

1st Adrien Niyonshuti, Rwanda Men's Elite Time Trial Champion

2018

Vuelta a España

Stages 4 & 9

National road cycling championships

1st Merhawi Kudus, Eritrea Men's Elite Road Race Champion

1st Edvald Boasson Hagen, Norway Men's Elite Time Trial Champion

2019

Giro d'Italia

Stage 21

Vuelta a España

Stage 8

2020

Tour de France

Marc Hirschi, Combativity award

Stages 12, 14 & 19

Giro d'Italia

Stage 18

National road cycling championships

1st Juliette Labous, France Women's Elite Time Trial Champion

Paris–Nice

1st Tiesj Benoot, Points classification

1st Team Sunweb, Team classification

Stages 4 & 6

Herald Sun Tour

1st Jai Hindley, General classification

1st Jai Hindley, Mountains classification

1st Team Sunweb, Team classification

Stages 1, 2 & 4

La Flèche Wallonne

1st Marc Hirschi

Bretagne Classic Ouest–France

1st Michael Matthews

2021

Tour de France

Stages 11, 15, 20 & 21

Vuelta a España

1st Primož Roglič, General classification

Stages 1, 11, 17 & 21

Summer Olympic Games

1st Primož Roglič, Men's time trial

2nd Tom Dumoulin, Men's time trial

2nd Wout van Aert, Men's road race

Paris–Nice

1st Primož Roglič, Points classification

Stages 4, 6 & 7

Tour of the Basque Country

1st Primož Roglič, General classification

1st Primož Roglič, Points classification

1st Primož Roglič, Mountains classification

1st Jonas Vingegaard, Young rider classification

1st Team Jumbo–Visma, Team classification

Stage 1

Tour of Britain

1st Wout van Aert, General classification

Stages 1, 4, 6 & 8

National road cycling championships

1st Wout van Aert, Belgium Men's Elite Road Race Champion

1st Timo Roosen, Netherlands Men's Elite Road Race Champion

1st George Bennett, New Zealand Men's Elite Road Race Champion

1st Tobias Foss, Norway Men's Elite Road Race Champion

1st Tony Martin, Germany Men's Elite Time Trial Champion

1st Tom Dumoulin, Netherlands Men's Elite Time Trial Champion

1st Tobias Foss, Norway Men's Elite Time Trial Champion

See also[]

• Cervélo TestTeam
• Team Jumbo–Visma

References[]

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cervélo.

• Official website