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Lamborghini edition Cervelo R5 now available to buy for £18,468

Would you pay £18,468 for this special edition bike? Just 63 of the Lamborghini-inspired Cervelo R5s have been made

Late last year, Cervelo and Lamborghini joined forces for a special edition of the R5 road bike, and it is now available to buy in the UK... although just two in 58cm frame sizes are available at Sigma Sports, and you'll need to part with just under £18,500 if you want to own one.  

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Limited to just 63 bikes, the special-edition R5 gets a paint scheme that is based on the Lamborghini Aventador SVJ car that broke the Nurburgring lap time, setting what apparently is a very fast time of 6 minutes 44 seconds. It’s a paint job that we like quite a lot.

> When car brands do bikes - here are the results

Lamborghini isn’t the first car company to collaborate with a bicycle brand for a limited edition of a high-end road race bike - Ferrari teamed up with Bianchi to give us the SF01 and also Colnago, resulting in the V1-r which, at the time, was Colnago’s lightest ever frame at a claimed 835g. For that frame, Ferrari was in charge of selecting the carbon fibre that was to be used, and owners would find Ferrari’s prancing horse logo on the headtube.

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British car manufacturer Aston Martin, also got in on the act a few years ago with a collaboration with Factor bikes. They even produced, with a lot of help from Stork, a race bike for the UK Continental team One Pro Cycling before the team folded in 2018.

This isn’t Lamborghini’s first involvement with a bike brand, or Cervelo. In 2018 it lent its name to a Lambo-themed version of the Cervelo P5X triathlon bike. If you also cast your mind back to 2013, Lamborghini were working with BMC on a 50th-anniversary bike that would have set you back a whopping €25,000. By those standards, this is a bit of a bargain.

Cervelo R5 x Lamborghini 4

We’re a little bit disappointed in a way as when the BMC x Lamborghini bike was designed, it was unveiled alongside a £3.1m supercar, a feature that we’re missing here.

> Review: Cervelo R5 Disc

So, what do you actually get for your eighteen and a half grand? Other than the paint job and Lamborghini logos, there's nothing we can see that's really different to other top-end versions with standard frames - but as only 63 are available, it is likely to become a collector's item. The Cervelo R5 Disc is a very nice road race bike that combines a lightweight frame with some aero touches.

In its current form, the bike hasn’t been updated since 2018. But that might be about to change as Tour de France favourite Primoz Roglic has been riding what we believe will be the 2022 update to the R5.

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The build is a little different to the standard bikes that Sigma Sports stocks. In keeping with the Italian car brand, Cervelo has turned to Campagnolo for the groupset and, as you might expect, it’s the brand’s top-end Super Record EPS Disc groupset. 

You also get Campagnolo’s Bora WTO 45 Dark wheels, though unfortunately, the bike was launched before Campagnolo released its £2,800 Ultra version of the Bora WTO 45.

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Kronsteen | 3 years ago
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I thought this was road.cc, not californiandentist.cc?

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Richard D | 3 years ago
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Don't worry - this bike isn't for cyclists, nor is it meant to be ridden.
It's a puff piece for topflight footballers, Russian oligarchs and the sons of wealthy Arab princes.  It's for people who have way more money than sense, who want a couple of Instagram opportunities before leaving it at the back of their garage alongside a handful of exotic sports cars.  The rest of us need not apply.

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huntswheelers | 3 years ago
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It will be best off not ridden.... terrible bikes.... however as a caveat....I've managed to silence them with decent components... my customers will vouch for that

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Rendel Harris replied to huntswheelers | 3 years ago
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huntswheelers wrote:

It will be best off not ridden.... terrible bikes.... however as a caveat....I've managed to silence them with decent components... my customers will vouch for that

Campag Bora wheels and Super Record EPS disc groupset...in my naivety I'd assume they're reasonably decent components?

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HiFi replied to Rendel Harris | 3 years ago
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There appears to be some confusion here. Campag groupsets and wheels are carbon fibre; extremely strong, light, and well manufactured. Quality concerns tend towards components that use (so) 20th-century aluminium instead, to reduce costs. Inevitably you get what you pay for: https://www.instagram.com/thanksshimano/

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TheBillder replied to HiFi | 3 years ago
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HiFi wrote:

There appears to be some confusion here. Campag groupsets and wheels are carbon fibre; extremely strong, light, and well manufactured. Quality concerns tend towards components that use (so) 20th-century aluminium instead, to reduce costs. Inevitably you get what you pay for: https://www.instagram.com/thanksshimano/

I think you may have over-focussed on one component with well-known flaws there. Plenty of other Shimano stuff just works - especially down at the lower end, many of their components will take an awful lot of abuse but somehow keep going. And at least with Shimano you don't need to extend your mortgage quite so far when things do go wrong.

Your remark about aluminium may just betray a lack of materials expertise. There's nothing inherently worse about it - often the right material for the job, and quite handy to be able to bend something back into line rather than shake your head at a gazillion sharp pieces after a knock.

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HiFi replied to TheBillder | 3 years ago
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The shimano crank design is flawed - yes. Several shimano UCI Word Tour and Pro Series teams swap them out for FSA or Rotor cranksets instead, I presume for the safety of the riders. But there are both cracked cranks and derailleurs in that link. The problem is not with aluminium per se, but with thin-walled aluminium box sections used in shimano designs. The failed components in the link show how readily these thin walls can tear. Shimano cut their costs (increase their profits) by giving you aluminium painted black (pretend carbon fibre?), and thin-walled box section aluminium is their solution for matching the low weight of carbon fibre, but agreed, it is a flawed approach, and quality/rider safety is compromised. Carbon fibre is the 21st-century material-of-choice for framesets, wheelsets and groupsets.

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Inthesun | 3 years ago
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My friend Domingo is going to buy one..

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wycombewheeler | 3 years ago
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Lamborghini isn’t the first car company to collaborate with a bicycle brand for a limited edition of a high-end road race bike

is this a collaboration? as far as I can tell Lamboughini have contributed nothing to this other than allowing cervelo to use the colour scheme, and logo.

Could they even prevent them usingthe colour scheme, urban camouflage with a bit of yellow thrown in is hardly a trademark.

Seems like a collosal waste of money, one step below NFTs

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Mungecrundle | 3 years ago
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Why paint a bicycle to celebrate a car? How about a loo roll holder or step ladders?

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sparrowlegs | 3 years ago
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Jeez! I wouldn't even pay the normal Cervelo price for this. After owning several Cervelo and seeing how shit they are built I'd never own one again.

I could somehow understand it if it was say, a Sarto, Officine Mattio or Basso but Cervelo are the Ratners of the bike world.

I like the paint scheme though. 

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mbprouser replied to sparrowlegs | 3 years ago
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Sorry, I have to ask but if you've owned ''several Cervelo", so buy more than one if they are badly made? 

That said, I totally agree with, well everyone, 9K extra for a paint job is outragous! ETOE in Germany could custom paint a Cervelo for a tenth of that price.

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sparrowlegs replied to mbprouser | 3 years ago
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I only bought one. The other was a warranty replacement for the first one after the bottom bracket came loose. Hence having owned more than one. 

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Hirsute replied to sparrowlegs | 3 years ago
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You did say several though not 2.

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Nick T replied to Hirsute | 3 years ago
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Ok so he didn't have a shit experience with famously shit Cervelos because he used the wrong word, 11/10 for pedantry

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Hirsute replied to Nick T | 3 years ago
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You are missing the point that at least 2 people here could not understand why someone would continue to buy the same product they said was crap.

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Nick T replied to Hirsute | 3 years ago
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He said he owned several, then when asked he clarified buying one and receiving another as a replacement, just as you seem to have missed the point 

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joules1975 | 3 years ago
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All that effort and money for a special paint job, and it's on on a bike with external cables that will no doubt start to rub away at said paint.

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Rendel Harris | 3 years ago
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I'm pretty stupid when it comes to spending way too much on cycling, but even for me £9k on a paint job seems a bit steep.

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