- I'm here with Nelson Oliveira's
Canyon Aeroad CF SLX team bike.
Stunning, right?
Look at that paintwork.
But, before I lecture you about that,
let's look at it in a bit more detail.
Well, of course it's the Aeroad,
which is Canyon's aerodynamic
frame offering for the squad for 2018.
Let's start with the saddle.
It's a Fizik Antares open
with carbon braided rails.
And that's, of course, mounted to Canyon's
own brand seat post, to match the
aerodynamic properties of this frame.
At the front we've got Canyon's
H36 one piece carbon fibre aerodynamic handlebar.
And then, mounted on there
is Campagnolo super record EPS
brake levers stroke shifters.
And, of course, the handlebars themselves
are wrapped with Lizard Skins
quite sticky handlebar tape.
And that's finished off with Movistar branded tape.
It's a nice little added detail.
Moving backwards,
and of course those Campagnolo
super record EPS shifters,
they're controlling matching
front and rear derailleurs.
The cassette is 11/29.
And the chain set is, again,
Campagnolo super record.
53/39 chain rings with a Power2Max NG power metre.
Wheel wise, Nelson's actually chosen to use
50mm depth both front and rear.
And they are the Campagnolo Bora Ultra wheels,
and they've got ceramic bearings fitted
in those hubs too.
Tyre wise, it's the Continental Competition Pro Limited,
and they're in 25mm width.
Now, some of the finishing touches
on this bike are really nice.
First up, we've got some elite
carbon fibre bottle cages.
Some Look Keo blade carbon pedals.
Then, mounted here on the carbon fibre rails
of the Fizik saddle is, in fact,
a 3D printed unit.
And that is to allow a data capture
from a unit, which is used by a company called Velon.
Which then transmit it
and provides viewers at home important race information.
So they can see riders' power, heart rate,
that kind of thing.
Right, now, here mounted on the seat post
is, of course, the race number
of Nelson Oliveira for the Tour Down Under.
As you can see,
it's actually kind of zip-tied on.
But it is glued on there as well.
And that's a special bracket they've had made,
because, obviously, using direct mount brakes
you are limited on how you can attach that
on to the rear of the frame.
Now, the Movistar team mechanics
have left nothing unturned.
Here you can just about spot
there's two rubber o-rings
and then a locking nut on the valve of the tubular tyres.
And that's to stop them rattling inside of the carbon.
It's a nice little touch there.
Now, here, on the top of the GPS unit mount
on the handlebars,
this is a Canyon own brand product.
But the mechanics there,
what they've done is they've actually put their own brand
and that looks, to me,
like a bit of the Lizard Skins finishing tape.
And they've just put that on the front,
a fine little detail.
I love details like that.
It's great.
Now, the chain rings fitted here are 39/53
and the crank length's 172.5mm.
The width of the bars 41cm.
And that's with a 12cm stem.
The drop of the bars is 130mm,
and there's a 74mm reach on there too.
Now, the height of the saddle is 71cm.
And the distance from the tip of the saddle
to the centre of the handlebars,
essentially where a stem would meet it,
is 57.5cm.
Now, I've just taken out the digital callipers
so that fellow tech lovers can really geek out on this.
The tyres, they measure up at 25.3mm,
and they're pumped up pretty hard
for 25mm tyres.
They're at about 110 to 115 PSI.
The saddle, that measures 140mm
from outside to outside.
That's actually standard.
Now, the mechanics have done a fantastic job,
in my opinion,
of hiding away any wires as best as possible.
They've managed to get the Campagnolo
EPS control unit and put it here
into the groove of the stem.
And then, with the EPS wire
together with the rear brake cable,
they've used some cable wrap
and really got a tight spiral wound going on there
all the way into the entry point
of the top tube for the rear brake cable.
Now, the weight of this bike,
together with the timing chip on the front fork leg,
the Velon mount on the rear of the saddle,
and also the race number,
comes in at 7.1kg.
Not bad for an aerobike is it?
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