All-new lightweight carbon Cervélo ZHT 5 hardtail mountain bike takes racing heritage further off-road, as Jumbo-Vismo targets XC World Cups..
bike. It didn’t hurt to have the multi-discipline superstars Marianne Vos and Wout van Aert of Team Jumbo-Visma on their team driving a push into the dirt. Well, Jumbo-Visma also has a dedicated mountain biker in multi-time Dutch XC champ Milan Vader. And while Vader was set to debut the new Cervélo ZHT 5 hardtail on the XC circuit this year after a World Cup podium last year, a wild early season road racing injury pushed Vader and his new bike’s XC racing campaign back to the 2023 season.
Cervélo describes the new ZHT as built for modern World Cup XCO – calling its geometry “rationally progressive”. This is not an ultra-slack mountain bike for sending big hits, with Cervélo priding their “reputation for balancing sharpness with stability.” The new mountain bike gets a 69° headtube, 74° seattube, and 430mm chainstays, and comes in a four size range