Cervelo Caledonia-5 2025
We say: A performance road bike, built for UK roads without ever being asked.
Every inch a performance road bike and happy to take you out on a badly surfaced B or C road for an hour, but really it's built with big days in the saddle in mind.
30c tyres fitted as standard. Compliant, light and very fast. Beautiful too...
Rival AXS is probably our favourite road groupset in 2024. It misses a little bit of the finish, fancy rotors and a more basic clutch in the rear mech but performance is pretty much identical.
Ready to race or smash out a century straight from the box. Love it.
They say:
On the fringes of cycling and triathlon, already endurance-oriented sports, there are athletes pushing their bodies and equipment to the limit. Ultra-distance, but ultra-fast. We call these Big, Stupid Rides, and since the introduction of the Caledonia in 2020, athletes around the world have been exploring just how big and just how stupid those rides can be. These athletes reach for the Caledonia-5. It’s built to handle long-distance, high-speed racing—with fit and handling geared toward comfort, but without sacrificing the Cervelo race bike feeling.
For the new Caledonia-5, we focused on improvements that would be meaningful for the people pushing it to its limits. The biggest thing you’ll notice is the addition of the in-frame storage first seen on P-Series. This isn’t designed to fit a burrito—there’s only room for a small multi-tool, tube, and a CO2 canister. Then we looked to comfort: The seat stays are dropped, similar to Aspero, which makes that rear triangle more acute, and more vertically flexible. At the same time, there’s a bit more downtube stiffness to maintain that pro-level responsiveness Caledonia is known for. You can still stuff some big tires (36mm) in there, and every bike comes with fender mounts.