(breathing heavily) - Morning trainiacs,
you know just for shoots,
something that I'm gonna try to do,
over the remainder of 2020,
is I'm gonna throw around some kettlebells.
Maybe get a kettlebell certification
but these pipe cleaner endurance athlete arms
as I am starting to throw these around more,
I am learning that I am not well suited
to lift heavy things.
Maybe like 10, 12 years ago,
when I was doing weightlifting
but not now.
No, no, no.
But I realize based on what I've titled this video
that you are not coming here to hear
about how much of a weakling I am.
You're coming here for this.
Oh yeah, that's right.
It's new bike day, best day.
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Holy smokes, that was hard.
So, what that was, was there are five,
there are about 20 minute workouts a week,
all with kettlebell, and it's basically well in my case,
really just getting used to handling a kettlebell.
And it's a program
that gears you up for the kettlebell certification.
And I just thought it would be like a fun challenge.
And as I was thinking about, broadening out, team traniac
into helping people with all endurance adventures,
whatever you might have,
the thing that you've gotta have
to bounce between one distance triathlon or another,
and then into maybe a marathon or a trail race,
maybe a swim run.
The only commonality that really really helps all of them,
is strength and durability.
And then I was thinking, well, there's a lot of people
that aren't really comfortable,
getting back into a gym at the moment.
So, how can we for as little money as possible,
set people up at home to do strength training
and give them still a really dynamic workout
that scales, that gets harder as you get more talented
that you can add more resistance to,
that you can do a full body workout
and you don't need thousands of dollars of stuff.
I think kettlebell is it.
So, first step is to see how it feels.
And so far I can tell you that it does not feel great
on these lily-white endurance hands
that spend a ton of time getting soft
and wrinkled and smooth in a pool.
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So what I've got down here is two triathlon bikes.
I've got the top of the line Canyon triathlon bike in there,
more entry-level with upgraded wheels triathlon bike.
And I just showed off the new Canyon grail recently,
announcing this whole thing with Canyon.
But the reason that I went to Canyon in the first place,
and the reason that I am trying out,
two of the lines of Canyon bikes here,
is because even over the last couple of years
while I was riding Benton, which they make great bikes
I was getting more questions about Canyon bikes
than Benton bikes.
Canyon was the number one brand
that people were asking me about
because their model of selling direct to consumer
not through bike shops and then saving all of you money.
It really helps people who are beginner triathletes
and have tons of expenses.
Nay, it helps all triathletes, who have tons of expenses.
Is a really expensive sport.
And as I traveled around the world
and notice people like Lionel, like Patrick Lange,
like Jan Frodeno, like Sarah Crowley,
like basically 60% of the field that challenge Roth,
all racing really well on Canyon bikes start turning my head
about how good a quality of bike you can get
with a better price point
because of that direct to consumer model.
So I recognize that the amount
of stuff that I get is pretty obnoxious, and we're lucky.
I recognize that this is not a scenario
that people normally have the privilege of getting.
I'm very very thankful for all of you
for paying attention to this.
And basically being a reason that this can happen
and what I try to do with all of what we have as a luxury,
I try to feature the free stuff in a way that you can learn.
So from the standpoint of a total consumer,
I don't even know like which exact models these are,
essentially what they said is we're gonna send you
an entry-level bike and a high-end bike and that's it.
And I haven't talked to them because I wanna go
through the build process and looking at on the surface
what's different between the three to $5,000 bike
and the more than $10,000 bike
from the consumer perspective, what would you notice?
And what's the experience in building both.
So that depending on your price point
you can maybe decide which one you should be thinking of.
Before that happens though,
I need to go eat and piece myself together.
That Kettlebell workout destroyed me.
I am no longer built like the Scottish ancestors
that I have to toss cavers
barely toss a stack of paper.
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That was pretty easy.
I gotta say the thing that I am most impressed about,
I mean, this is German engineering here
but basically the bikes come
with as little putting together mechanical issues
as you could imagine, like the grip tape is already put on,
everything is already lined up
and there's like slots for everything.
The tooling is all supplied to you
and yeah, like they are sponsors,
so I've got to say good things about them,
but that is pretty exceptional.
It's a little bit like how an iPhone walks you through
how to use it.
This in a sense sort of walks you
through how to put it together.
So even if you aren't super mechanically inclined,
you'll do okay.
All right, let's get into the differences.
When people start looking at the differences
between super high-end $10,000 plus super tri bike
versus entry-level we're talking
what now is about three to $5,000 tri bike,
performance wise there isn't
a whole lot of improvement here.
Once you get into that three to $5,000 bike
where you have deep section wheels
and you've got comfortable in the aero position
you've got all the cables tied up nicely
you don't have a whole lot of extra things
being taped onto the bike.
Like you have a bento box, or you have your bottle cages
at a 45 degree angle in behind your seat.
All these little things that you are really
just figuring out what the accessories that you buy
after the bike,
performance between these two bikes,
isn't really that much different.
Obviously, this bike is going to go a little bit faster.
The reason for that is that the carbon layup
in high-end bikes allows it to be stiffer
while being lighter, the wheels, same sort of thing.
They are stiffer and they're more stable in the wind
while they're lighter.
So you're putting out say the same watts
between these two, but the stiffness
of this bike and the stability of this bike
while being a little bit lighter
is what's going to allow this bike to just have that power
from the pedals transfer
into forward motion a little bit easier.
Some of the main differences between entry-level
and super bike is really just the integration.
What you can see on the entry-level bike
is that they do have the bento box here on the top
and behind the cockpit, just like they have the bento box
in behind the cockpit on the super bike.
But they've got on the super bike that they don't have
on the entry-level bike is they have a full integrated
hydration system in the front end
which my speculation is that it actually
might even make the bike faster.
Whereas here that's just one extra bottle
that you're gonna have to maybe mount to the down tube.
You're gonna have to maybe mount up here.
Ideally, you are not putting your own hydration
that's in between the arrow bars hanging down.
'Cause that's when you start really getting
a lot of crosswind and chatter
related to that is the integration of the storage,
right as the seat tube inserts into the frame,
this area right here is a storage area
that you can store a flat and a little bit of a repair kit.
You don't really have that same thing here
on the entry-level bike.
The integration of the brakes is also a little bit different
on the entry-level bike, the rear brakes
the Shimano 105 brakes are surface mount.
So they're hanging out here in the wind.
Now, anything that happens in behind
your feet isn't really something
that is a huge aerodynamic benefit
but if you can clean it up this area
and tuck the brakes underneath the bike,
like on the super bike
and have it trouted and completely covered
it's not that there's even like more turbulence here.
There's no turbulence, there's nothing.
There's nothing for it to even grab and spin up.
So it's just going to again, be more stable
and more aerodynamic with the super bike.
The saddles on both of these are the same.
And in most cases a lot of people
are going to put their own saddles on anyway,
something that I noticed
as I was starting to move this around
that's a little bit different is the bottom bracket
that this whole area right here is a lot bigger
on the super bike.
Now, when you're looking at a bike that is overall lighter
just the bike, not counting all of the accessories
and all of the hydration nutrition
that you're gonna have to put on with more mass
again, that means it's gonna be more stable
because the bottom bracket is bigger and more structured.
The torque that you're putting on the pedals
is just going to be absorbed a lot better.
So you're gonna transfer more of your power
into the actual bike in forward motion.
Something that is definitely
going to affect the aerodynamics
between super bike and entry-level bike is right up here
right at the nose of the bike,
getting its teeth into the wind,
hitting the wind and breaking the wind
is that the bike brakes here on the front or surface mount,
whereas here they're integrated inside the fork.
So again, that's gonna be a lot less turbulence,
and personally, I believe I haven't tried these
because it's really starting to get cold outside.
Is that having a smoother frontal area here
versus the entry-level tri bike
is gonna cause a little bit less route.
Again, I've said that I really liked the ventum bike
when I was riding it, that was one of the things
that it was designed for.
Not having that down tube allowed that front end
to be totally stable.
And that allows you to get off the bike
and be a lot more comfortable for the run.
Your upper body is a lot less tuck.
So that's probably a difference that you would see
between entry-level bike and super bike.
And then here's probably the biggest thing
that I would expect to be different
as I start customizing these
because it's just the nature of the differences
between entry-level tri bikes and super bikes.
And it's what happens upfront in the cockpit.
And from what I've seen as I started
going through all of the boxes
that they give you a bunch of spare parts with Canyon,
there's much more customization that I can do
in the front end of this, than in the entry-level bike
What that's going to allow me to do
is just get really, really comfortable.
One of the biggest things that I found
that's made a big difference in bike speed
over the last three years
is improving my comfort in position during a race.
Overall I had to guess I'm saying maybe 10 minutes faster
with this in a race,
but if you've got the money and budget is really no concern
and you want all of the bells and whistles,
all of the integration already done for you
you want a bike that looks really, really clean.
You gotta go super bike.
That's why people buy super bikes.
It's because of the luxuriousness of buying the super bike.
But if you're a beginner triathlete
or you're somebody that's just looking
at getting that first nice triathlon bike
and budget is a concern,
by all means, go with this and you'll be able
to ride it for years and really not lose out
on your performance benefits whatsoever.
So, thanks to Canyon for sending this over.
Thanks to all of you for following and allowing me
to do things like this, like compare bikes
and thanks for making it to the end of the video.
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