Cervelo's Gerard Vroomen talks bikes with road.cc

At the recent Cervelo Test Team launch we got to speak to Gerard Vroomen one half of the dynamic duo (along with Phil White) behind Cervelo, and now the Cervelo Test Team.

Vroomen and White set up Cervelo in the mid-Nineties designing cutting edge and often esoteric time trial machines. Their big break came in 2000 when against everyone's expectations, including their own, a meeting with Team CSC boss, Bjarne Riis, resulted in them becoming the bike supplier to the team. Under enormous pressure the duo then produced a whole series of race winning machines culminating in the Soloist which Carlos Sastre rode to victory in last year's Tour de France.

Vroomen has very definite ideas on bike design, materials, and technology and he was more than happy to share a few of them with road.cc…