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  2008 R3 SL Frameset
  2008 R3 SL Frameset
 
Our Price: $3,600.00



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Product Code: CERVELOR3SLFS


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With the R3 range, Cervelo provides a proven platform that offers extremely low weight yet class-leading stiffness and durability. There isn't a better stiffness-to-weight ratio (STW) bike in the pro peloton than the R3. Yet even as the R3 was winning race after race and test after test, our engineers kept working on further improvements. Enter the R3 SL, the lightest production frame in the world-if the definition of lightest means real weight of a real frame ina real size with a real derailleur hanger and real paint. But much more important to us is that it has the same legendary strength, durability, BB and torsional stiffness as the regular R3.
 
Features
  • With eight engineers working on carbon fiber projects, Cervelo has a wealth of in-house knowledge about how to increase the performance of carbon frames. The R3 SL is the latest iteration of our lay-up optimization, allowing us to further increase the stiffness-to-weight ration and the vertical compliance.
  • R3 seatstays-Through testing and analysis every last gram was squeezed out of the R3 seatstays without any sacrifice. It passes the highest impact, fatigue and road vibration test levels in the industry as well as "Cancellara and O'Grady-test" on the cobblestones of Paris-Roubaix.
  • Front boomerang construction-Monocoque frames typically have a weight penalty, while frames with lugs can have lower impact strength, as each lug joint is a potential separation point. Cervelo's patent pending boomerang design of the R3 series allows continuous fibers to run from toptube to headtube to downtube, thereby greatly enhancing the frontal impact strength without encountering the lay-up control problems of a full monocoque design.