Cervelo Test Team

We know that many of you look forward to Cervélo TestTeam’sBeyond The Peloton films, which give a fly-on-the-wall take on the ProTour outfit’s debut season, as much as we do here at road.cc.

Now, the fourth and final video covering the team’s Tour de France campaign this year has been put online and like its predecessors, it’s essential viewing for any cycling fan.

Cycling’s governing body, the UCI, has confirmed the registration for the 2010 season of 19 Professional Continental, the second-highest level in the sport after the ProTour.

Regular readers of road.cc will know that for a while now, we’ve been flagging up the Beyond The Peloton series of films, which give a behind-the-scenes glimpse at Cervélo TestTeam’s inaugural season on the ProTour.

Now, hot on the heels of last week’s release of the second film following the team’s progress on this year’s Tour de France, the third has arrived.

There will be all sorts of bikes on display at the Cycle Show but very few with the pedigree of the nearly new Cervelo S3 on the Sigma Sport stand (E22a), it's the bike Thor Hushovd won the Tour de France green jersey on, and it sports a unique one-off black and green colourway as a tribute to that fact.

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Vuelta Stage 18: Talavera de la Reina - Avila, 165KM

Ireland’s Philip Deignan of Cervélo TestTeam came out ahead in a gripping, winner-takes-all game of cat-and-mouse against Liquigas rider Roman Kreuziger to claim Stage 18 of the Vuelta this afternoon in the walled city of Avila.

Vuelta 2009 Stage 10: Alicante - Murcia, 170KM

Simon Gerrans, the Australian who rides for Cervélo TestTeam, timed his sprint to perfection in Murcia this afternoon, coming off Alexandre Vinokourov’s wheel to take Stage 10 of the Vuelta.

The Kazakh rider, back from a two-year suspension for doping but clearly off the pace in the mountains over the past couple of days, finished fourth, with Canada's Ryder Hesjedal of Garmin-Slipstream and the Dane Jakob Fuglsang of Saxo Bank finishing second and third, respectively.

Bradley Wiggins will be sporting the British champions’ jersey when he lines up at the starting gate for next year’s Tour de France prologue in Rotterdam after winning this afternoon’s British Time Trial Championship in Buckinghamshire.

Cervelo aren't a company to rest on their laurels, but nor are they one to meddle with proven performers for the sake of it. The 2010 line-up of Cervelo bikes bears a striking resemblance to 2009's range – there are no major changes for this year, though of course you'll get a natty new paint job. All the bikes will be available as frame and fork only in the UK, as distributors Madison think that most people willing to shell out up to three and a half grand for a frameset will have fairly fixed ideas about what they want to hang off it. Anyway, here's the range...