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- Well, today's Pro Bike is a very exciting one
because this is the bike of 2017 Iron Man World Champion,
Patrick Langer.
This is his Canyon Speedmax CF SLX.
Well, let's look at the frame first of all,
because this is a thing of beauty.
It's actually the 2019 version of the Canyon Speedmax
but obviously, being a professional athlete for Canyon,
he gets to ride it pre-release, but this one does obviously
have some customization specific to Patrick.
Being the 2017 Iron Man World Champion, he's got a few
World Championship references.
He's got them on the stripes on the front forks.
He's got the stripes that come down off the seat tube
blending into the World Championship stripes
down the rear stay, which is a really nice touch.
And then also on the top tube,
"Patrick Lange, Iron Man World Champion"
Now, it's worth noting, actually,
for the 2018 Iron Man World Championships,
he is gonna be riding a different bike
from the one that we are looking at right now,
but it's gonna be an exact replica,
everything is gonna be switched over,
and set up in exactly the same way.
So we can still look at this bike today
and know exactly how he's gonna be riding it
for the Iron Man World Championships this year.
But, the thing that is really interesting here
is the amount of detail, the attention to detail
that they've gone into, and the customisations for Patrick.
So first of all, let's take a look
at the front end of the bike.
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- So if actually you pick this bike up
from Patrick, pre-race at the Iron Man World Championships,
so he's been training on this bike
for the last couple of weeks,
so we are currently missing the hydration system,
which would normally slot on the front here,
then also the storage system on the top tube
for gels and what not.
He will obviously be putting that on for race day,
on the bike that he will be switching over to.
But otherwise, this is a relatively standard set-up
for the 2019 version of the Speed Max.
He's got the standard bars, and the riser stack
and base bar that you will find on the production model,
but there's some quite big differences
between the 2019 version and the 2018 version
because they've really thought about the aerodynamics here,
so the riser stack coming up from the base bar
to the aero bars and the elbow cups
now are a lot narrower, so whereas before
they used to come out wider beside the hydration system,
now they're almost inside, so when the hydration system
is slotted on, they'll be completely hidden from the wind
and that'll flow straight into the storage box,
so really neat touch.
He's then using the S-Bend aero bars,
he's got this custom adaptor, which allows the aero bars
to come up at this slight angle,
and obviously also the elbow cups,
which clearly suits Patrick
and we're seeing quite a lot on bikes these days.
And also worth noting that Canyon
come from a city called Koblenz in Germany,
as do a company called Ergon,
that are closely linked with Canyon,
and they also helped to create the pads
and the grips for Canyon, so we've got this foam padding
on the end of the aero bars, which is quite unique,
quite simple, but works really well.
Got these grips on the base bar,
which are designed specifically for the Speed Max,
so it's a rubber grip, really nice and really clean as well,
with the lines coming through the wind.
And then on the elbow cups,
we've got this, almost like rubberised foam that,
yeah it's quite thin, but it seems to work very well.
Now something we do know Patrick has been working
very hard on is his aerodynamics and his position.
Now you can see that with his aero bar set-up,
where he's got them rocked in
so his fingers are almost together,
so really like a tight and compact position
that he's clearly got used to.
But they're taking this one step further
with something they are calling Project 101.
We can't see it right now because it's not on this bike,
but it will be on his bike for race day
at the Iron Man World Champs, and that is essentially
a custom set of aero bars that he's designed
in collaboration with his sponsor Swiss Side.
And this is some custom carbon aero bars,
which are moulded specifically to his forearms,
so not only for comfort, but they say it could save
somewhere around five watts.
Okay, moving down and onto the wheels,
currently set up with the Swiss Side Hadron 485 wheels.
Obviously, he's just training on this bike at the moment,
for races, he's gonna switch out the wheels.
Last year, he used the Swiss Side Hadron 800 wheels,
which have a rim depth of 80 mil,
he did say he feels like he was maybe chancing it
a little bit last year, given the crosswinds
you get in Hawaii, was a very still day last year,
so this year, he's probably gonna opt for
leaving the front wheel on, the 485,
and then going for the 800 rear.
Terms of the tyres, now this is interesting,
he's using the tubeless Schwalbe tyres,
now they do say the Schwalbe One,
what that means is there is no inner tube within the tyre,
they essentially look like a clincher tyre,
but they are tubeless ready, he then runs a slime in there,
so should he suffer a puncture mid-race,
that slime will seal the hole,
and hopefully stop him from having a puncture,
which obviously is a very good option
for the Iron Man World Championships,
when it's such an important race.
The wheel obviously also has to be tubeless ready.
He is also riding 25 mil front and rear,
and he's gonna be riding that for race day.
And in terms of the braking for that,
the Speedmax has integrated braking for the forks,
so hidden in there, then also under the bottom bracket
with a nice shell, aeroshell, around the rear brake.
So moving back and onto the component tree,
and he's got a 55/42 tooth chain ring set-up,
which is quite meaty, but given the course out here
in Hawaii, it's quite flat and fast,
so this should suit it really well.
And then to go with that, we've got an 11-28 cassette,
which obviously is quite a nice range,
but gives him that option, should he need it,
going up to Hawi, which is a slight climb out here in Hawaii
and that is all run on a 9150 Shimano Dura Ace Di2 group set
which allows him to have the option
of changing the gears on both the end of the aero bars,
and on the bullhorns.
But a slight customization here,
because you may have noticed already, on the rear mech,
we've got the CeramicSpeed OSPW jockey wheels,
but with a difference,
because this is the Victory OSPW jockey wheels,
and that has this hollow design,
for the jockey wheels themselves,
but then also the cage has been custom designed and painted
by Ron Jones at Pro Bike Design,
it's got this really nice shimmer to it,
and there's actually only 25 of them available worldwide,
with a price tag of just shy of $2,000 each.
Ouch, yeah.
Now, going back to the crankset,
and this is the SRM Power Metre crankset
that has been designed in collaboration with Look.
Now, we have featured this crankset before
and it's quite interesting because you can actually change
the crank length on the actual cranks themselves.
So, has an option of 170 all the way up to 175,
and he's actually got it run
at the lowest crank length, which is 170.
And then on the end of that,
he's got the Look Keo Blade pedals.
And all of that is going to be connected on race day
by that infamous white CeramicSpeed chain
that we so often see on pro bikes.
In fact, the whole bike is kitted out
with CeramicSpeed bearings, or will be,
on his race bike, for race day.
He's gonna be changing a few other things for race day,
obviously we've already mentioned
that he'll be adding his hydration system on the front,
he'll have that bento box design
for his gels on the top tube,
he's also going to be changing the bottle cage here,
obviously he's just training at the moment,
so he's just got a standard bottle going in,
but he will be having an aero bottle
that fills that gap there,
he's also got this rear hydration set-up,
which actually connects to the seat tube,
which is quite smart, rather than it coming off the saddle,
he's also got a really neat storage system,
which is built in to the Speedmax.
And that is just in front of the seat post,
so you can pull this up,
and in there you've got your inner tube,
and you can also slot a CO2 canister down the top tube.
He's obviously broken the latch on this one,
but will be getting a new one very soon.
And here obviously he's got the Cobb JOF Fifty Five saddle,
which is a saddle I used to ride quite a lot,
I really like this one, it's got that split-nosed design,
which allows you to sit quite far forward on the saddle,
tilt your hips round, relieving that pressure,
and really allowing you to comfortably
get into your aero bars.
Now, the Cobb JOF has quite a long nose to it,
which a lot of people like,
should they have to move around
in their position on the bike.
So that is Patrick Langer's Canyon Speedmax CF SLX,
and I've gotta be honest, I am very excited
to see this Project 101 aero bar set-up.
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