Cervelo Caledonia 5 Rival Etap Axs Five 2022

We don’t see road bikes as delicate machines meant only for putting watts into & receiving speed from. They’re an extension of our soul, of the way we want to see our worlds, & the lives we want to live. Sometimes that means cutting across park grass, & sometimes it’s seeing where that dirt road off to the left leads you. The Caledonia-5 is a bike for the modern road rider.

The Caledonia is the bike we keep reaching for when we know the odometer’s going well past the triple-digit mark. Long rides invariably have some smooth tarmac, some junk pavement over backroads, a cutty singletrack connector, & maybe even your own local Strade Bianche sector. So we built a bike that could take on all of them, do it well, & fit fenders in case the ominous clouds turn into a downpour 130km into your day.

We developed the Caledonia-5 in collaboration with our World Tour riders to satisfy the need for a dedicated cobbles bike. Faster handling isn’t necessarily betterâ€â€we engineered the handling based on the specific use-case. In this case, it’s Roubaix. Roubaix is harder on bikes than any other race on the calendar, & there’s zero margin for error. We increased the rear center, lowered the BB, & increased the trail. The handling is still fast, but we’ve added stability.

Modern road riders are looking for bikes to handle long-distance, high pace, no limits, & offer maximum fun. By placing lower modulus carbon in key areas to mitigate the brittleness of hi-mod fiberâ€â€the Caledonia delivers performance, comfort, & speed. Oh, & you can fit a 34mm tire in there. Or 31mm with fenders.