The title of this piece alone ought to get the blood flowing. The brand new Canyon Aeroad (assume ‘aero-road’) is now in its fourth technology and the bike you’ve seen lurking across the peloton all season. It’s a “tremendous secret bike” that MVDP and the Alpecin-Deceuninck Crew have been using a lot of the season on vastly completely different terrain. It’s already claimed Tour de France stage wins, and Canyon is holding its breath for one more gold.
Canyon Aeroad – What’s New?
Canyon was upfront in explaining that “the third technology Aeroad was already high-speed”, and making it sooner is a troublesome order. In the event you take a look at the frameset facet to facet, the third and 4th technology Aeroad silhouettes are very comparable. In the event you look intently, nonetheless, you’ll discover slight adjustments that enhance dealing with, consolation, and aerodynamics. The actual story, nonetheless, is within the extras and the serviceability of the brand new design.
Quickest Bike within the World Tour?
That declare will depend on who you ask, however it’s all about who wears the crown, and MVDP makes this bike very quick. Nevertheless it’s not solely the riders who pilot that make the Aeroad a quick machine; it’s the legacy of the design.
Canyon carried out testing on the GST Wind Tunnel in South Germany, and the information obtained locations the brand new Aeroad on the high of the world peloton leaderboard. As with earlier generations of the Aeroad, the precise engineering triumph is how the Aeroad can carry out in numerous terrains and programs.
Canyon Aeroad Body Adjustments
These with a eager eye will discover the entrance of the Aeroad will get a contact longer. That is notable within the headtube, fork, and high tube. The rear of the bike, however, will get shorter. This shortness is most notable within the seat tube, seat stays, and an simply noticed slimmer seatpost. The bike’s headtube is way narrower, and this slim profile continues till it meets the downtube.
The body has additionally been up to date with sections bolstered to spice up dealing with responsiveness. Like every race bike in 2024, weight discount that doesn’t compromise aero efficiency was additionally a key focus. Full builds now tip the scales only a shade over 7 kg out of the field.
When most corporations launch a brand new mannequin, they accompany the information with a “now lighter than ever” tagline.
Canyon’s Aeroad gained some weight (a slight quantity, however let’s be severe; this bike continues to be tremendous gentle in all builds). This admission of caring much less about weight and extra about aerodynamics will ring a bell with all however essentially the most die-hard weight weenies.
How a lot aero benefit are we speaking about right here? The brand new Aeroad is 1.6 watts sooner than the earlier model at zero levels of yaw angle. It’s not the 15 watts we had been all hoping for, however it’s progress on an already quick bike body. Plus, there’s extra…
Did you say 32mm Tires?
Sure, Canyon elevated the Aeroad’s tire functionality to a 32 mm tire. Making it one of many new race bikes (the Ventum NS1 being one other) with sufficient clearance to race all of the races and all of the tires. We’re speaking Milan-San Remo, the cobbles of Paris-Roubaix, and the pure tarmac of the Tour de France.
Tempo Bar Adjustable Cockpit
The up to date Tempo Bar cockpit from Canyon will get a large replace with interchangeable drops. This implies you possibly can go from a dimension 40cm to 42cm and alter the bar “ends” fully to a extra aero design vs. conventional.
The brand new design is three items and makes use of a quill-ish stem similar to the Canyon Endurace we rolled months in the past. The ‘T bar stem’ is the place you connect the bar drops and in addition serves as your pc mount, just like the Canyon Grail.
The bikes ship with each bar choices, permitting riders to experiment with slender choices right down to 37cm and as massive as 44cm. The narrowest choice is claimed to save lots of 14 watts at 40 kmh. Notably, the place the earlier design ran the cables internally by means of the outer drops, this model seems to be to run them externally, that means you must be capable to swap out the drops and alter handlebar dimension with out having to take care of any inside cable routing. We’ll affirm on our pattern quickly.
One Becoming to Rule Them All
The brand new Aeroad has many various components to regulate. Canyon determined riders ought to be capable to rapidly and effectively service their journey with one software—a T25. The Shimano/SRAM cranksets and different non-Canyon components are nonetheless their “regular fittings,” however all Canyon bits are T25. Canyon used T25 stainless-steel and titanium bolts manufactured in Germany, all constructed for a selected function.
This can be a step ahead for fewer instruments to hold on a journey. My solely hesitation is that I’ll miss the little bit of side-loading you are able to do with the ball finish of a hex becoming. However to this point, so good. I’ve solely constructed our assessment journey, however all of the T25 bolts are straight on and require no additional finishes on the motive force’s finish.
Constructed For the Highway and Life
Bikes want service; for many of us, that doesn’t occur practically sufficient. So Canyon took a few of the extra vital, extra annoying service wants out of the image (for some time, however not perpetually). The brand new Aeroroad boasts hermetically sealed premium headset bearings. So, the rider may have extra miles with fewer “service intervals” and costly re-hosing work shelved till the top of the season.
Canyon Aeroad Vary
The brand new Aeroad line-up consists of six Shimano Di2 or SRAM AXS fashions throughout the Aeroad CFR and Aeroad CF SLX platforms.
CFR fashions are constructed utilizing the best carbon Canyon can supply, leading to a frameset that delivers lightness, toughness, and stiffness on the World Tour degree.
The Aeroad CF SLX carbon layup strikes the optimum stability of light-weight building and excessive power. CF SLX fashions can be found in Di2, or AXS builds with a CF SLX 7 or CF SLX 8 specification.
The Aeroad CF SLX and Aeroad CFR platforms characteristic full system integration, digital groupsets, and energy meters on all fashions besides the AEROAD CF SLX 7 AXS.
Canyon Aeroad Pricing
- Aeroad CF SLX 7 DI2: $5,599
- Aeroad CF SLX 7 AXS: $5,599
- Aeroad CF SLX 8 DI2: $6,599
- Aeroad CF SLX 8 AXS: $6,999
- Aeroad CFR DI2: $9,999
- Aeroad CFR AXS: $10,499
The all-new, 4th technology Aeroad is out there completely at Canyon.com or through the Canyon app.
Search for a full assessment coming shortly.
