Tonight's Bike at Bedtime is a trip back to 2008, when road.cc was starting out...
We asked Tony what he thinks about the review now, 15 years later, and this is what he said:
And of course, Cervélo also had a strong shout on having invented the aero road bike with the S3. So, all in all, it was something of a coup for us to get it a month or so into our existence. In fact, we reviewed it before we even got a settled review format. With that walk down memory lane out of the way, let's get a few of the tech details of the bike in here. In 2008, most road riders were still blissfully unaware of disc brakes and the heated debates those metal plates would spark among the hardcore traditionalists. Hence, it is no surprise the R3 SL came with rim brakes, those being Dura-Ace – as was the rest of the groupset.
Back in 2008, Tony said that the"day Cervélo make a bad bike is the day Boy George jacks into the showbiz life and becomes a sheet metal worker…" and 15 years on, it is actually true that as far as ourMaybe it was the fact that it was road.cc's first-ever bike review, but looking back the 2009 R3 SL really seems like a perfect bike. Tony could could hardly pick a fault; it was perfect on ascents, descents, flats and everything in between.