I saw one, an orange one, recently in a swanky bike shop downstairs. It’s blooming lovely in the flesh, utterly sublime.
If I was in for another frame, it’s one I’d consider. But actually it’s not that light.
Cervelo made a reputation for building strong light bikes, this is (I guess not having ridden one) strong, but light it isn’t. The F&F come out at a median average of the current crop of high end builds, which in todays money is just on the fat side of adorable. If he could bring the F&F down to 1200gms then it’s a much better proposition.
As is, the frame will stay like this for some time, again he built Cervelo on the back of make a good frame once, don’t change it every year for changes sake. The R5 you can still buy which hasn’t changed since they put the cables inside the frame.
A lot of recent Cervelos have suffered with build quality issues, having shipped out production to the far east a lot of warranty claims for rear stays/drop outs and front mech hangers have bust (R5,R3,S3) and the brand have suffered because of this (I have a mate whose a Cervelo Fanboy whose suffered these issues on 3 R5’s and 2 S3’s, all replaced under warranty).
I think he’s done a great job with this frame, made it a multi use and hope to see a few more on the trails.
I do like the choice of colours.