2024 Cervélo P-Series TT Tri Triathlon bike in limited edition Paris Green, angled Support us! Bikerumor may earn a small commission from affiliate links in this article. Learn More
Cervélo just rolled out a flashy limited edition Paris Green P-Series time trial & triathlon frame kit inspired by 19th-century French impressionist and post-impressionist painters. This new Cervélo P-Series is the brand’s more affordable TT & tri bike, adapting much of the top-tier aero tech from their “fastest TT bike in the World Tour” for a broader audience, and now adding new features like internal storage and wider wheel and tire clearance.
And this limited frameset comes with the new wide Reserve 52|63 wheels that the frame we optimized for in the wind tunnel, and bonus… with matching Paris Green graphics.
Oh, and I’m going to go out on a limb and say that it’s all yellow, not green. Cervélo P-Series Paris Green limited edition TT & triathlon bike
(Photos/Cervélo) OK, let’s get this straight. Cervélo is calling the limited edition P-Series color Paris Green because it “ takes inspiration from an arsenic-based
pigment developed in the 19th century… used by Georges Seurat and Claude Monet, among others, to render vivid natural scenes in oil paintings. ” So those masters of French painting used it to render hard to reproduce greens. Albeit, it seems like Wikipedia thinks that Paris Green is a lot more green than this at best acid green Cervélo P-series.
Completely off-topic, but bike industry interesting… Paris Green pigment ( […]
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