My New Wheels. Just two, non-motorised

As much as I love my mountain bike. It's just too much trying to break into the 100 mile club. Only so much you can do on a 12kg 29er plus it ain't designed for distance, but for off road.

So, as I'm finding myself riding road a lot more than trails at the moment, I've just ordered myself this little beauty. All tech specs via the link. Weight = 7.6kg

Still going to be riding the MTB a lot but will reserve that solely for the trails and more rugged surfaces. :)


https://www.canyon.com/en/roadbikes/bike.html?b=3589



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Similar setup to the wife's but hers is Ultegra 2x10. She loves it but has had issues in high wind when racing. Nice wheels Mr, sure you will love it but don't retire the MTB.

I know I will regret this but, what kind of money does that bmx go for?


DJ OD

Cheers Bert. I'll not be getting rid of the MTB. In fact, I've also ordered today an Asgard high security storage unit for 29ers, as my MTB is a 29er but it stores up to 4 bikes so both will go in there and will be alarmed also.

DJ, you mean the roadbike above? £1400 mate. My MTB was £900 hence that's another reason I won't get rid of it. It's too good :)

I start a new job in a couple of weeks and gonna cycle that everyday but grown out of getting pissed wet every day so on my terms. That is mainly on road with about a mile of possible off road. I intend on riding my Orange Five but am toying with using my hardtail as it has a 130 mm fork and bigger gears at the front 22/32/44 whilst my Orange is running 24/36 at the front. Will see I suppose. I doubt I would buy a road bike TBH but I understand their uses.

My old man just bought a Rose CF thing with Ultrgra on and hydraulic discs. Fucking mental.

Yeah there are some seriously nice CF road bikes out there. The Ultimate has the Shimano 105 11's which as I understand it are EPIC! :)

I only work 9 miles away and often cycle to work but I've been passed far too many times by road bikers when I've thought I was giving it a decent pelt on the MTB lol. Averaging 16mph on a MTB over 9 miles ain't too shabby and even on a 45 miler with some decent gradients I can average around 14mph mainly because by the time I get to around 35miles, my legs are fucked lol. This is why I want to shed 5kg's and reduce rolling resistance by going to the road bike. What I'm likely to do then is instead of doing a 9 mile ride to work, I'll do a 20 mile ride to work just for shits n giggles :) Then I can start breaking up into the higher mileage as I go along (not on work days though lol).

I'm not usually into road bikes at all, but that does look proper nice and being a Canyon you can bet there is a $hit load of kit for the money (I know Canyon MTBs are). I'm thinking of getting a new MTB myself from a similar "internet only based" manufacturer, as shop prices can't even get close to them for cost/spec (YT Industries).

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You guys are on a whole other level, I just got GT aggressor 3.0 and thought I was billy big spuds and here are you guys putting £2K+ bikes in storage tsk tsk
Best wishes
LS

I have a lot of security for mine. We have at least two bikes each and they do add up.

Yeah this is the storage unit I've just bought. Asgard Storage for 29ers (as my MTB is a 29er) so it'll take the MTB and the RB when it arrives :)

19 Stone of Galvanised Steel

http://www.asgardsss.co.uk/home-cate...etal-bike-shed

Stock image btw :) Not my bikes.

http://www.asgardsss.co.uk/media/cat...us_4-bikes.jpg

I'm still road riding. Mostly with a club now but not one of these dickhead clubs, we are a proper social gathering with pub nights etc too and loads of support. Being in a club has encouraged me to do things I would never have done on my own, especially climbing hills.

I'm on a cannondale supersix evo now, £1600 worth of bike which I got for £1000 as last year's model. Changed the fsa crank for ultegra and I want to do the brakes at some point as they are tiagra and I want ultegra there too but I'm really enjoying it. I'm not getting out as much as I should but have just passed 1000 miles this year.

Off for a club ride this morning which I think I'm leading today. Love it! Should manage somewhere around 40 miles this morning.

Enjoy the canyon they are great bikes. Good value, light and nice spec for the money

Nice bike. I know that Canyon are German mail order only, did you have any issues with the purchase? I'd worry buying a bike unseen, I feel the need to be able to sit on it before shelling out the cash.


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Canyon are great bikes and a great company so no worries there. What you do need to be sure of is you buy the correct frame size. You can check out the geometry on the website and find a bike in your local store that is the same or almost the same. The most important measurements are effective top tube, seat tube length and reach.

You can adjust almost every other dimension on a bike as long as the frame isn't too big or too small for you. In fact you SHOULD adjust every other dimension during your set up (over the course of weeks usually)

Either that or get a bike fitting. Some firms charge a fucking fortune but we have a guy near us who does them for 35 quid who used to wrench for one of the big teams.

The order has been fine. Of course it'll take a week or so for it to arrive.

Yeah I went into Evans and Giant and tried out a number of bikes. The frame I need is an M (56cm). My measurements are actually, BANG in the middle of M and S. I talked at length with Canyon and advised that my main interest is in riding long distances and a decent average speed with climbs of course. I'm not interested in trying to race like Wiggins. Too old for that now :). Talking with the guy he advised their S frame (53cm) would work but would be a real low down aggressive racey position which would also require some discipline in stability. Getting the M would be more suited to my needs especially as my height (175cm) and inseam (which is between 82 and 83 cm depending on how hard I pull a spirit level up into my balls lol). When in Evans and Giant, I stood over the M size frame and spoke with a couple of the staff there. They recommended an M too saying the S would be just a bit on the small size for me. Additionally, if you google loads of different bike shops, Wiggle, Chain reaction, Merlin, Halfrauds, etc.. etc.. including shops in other countries, it seems that for someone between 5ft7" and 5ft9" with an inside leg of around 31" (yup they all use ft and inches) then an M size is what I need.

The seat and handlebars I can make adjustments to as required. The other thing I've done is bought a second set of the pedals I use on my MTB. They're light and it means I don't have to spend another £150 on road bike pedals / shoes /cleats. I can just use my MTB shoes which are low profile, light but with a slightly thicker sole. As Maltloaf said, Canyon are well renowned company so I'm not worried.

On a side note, when you buy a bike from Canyon, you can get ridiculous discounts on accessories. I also got a Garmin Edge 1000 bundle (has the cadence, speed and heart monitors) for £325 as opposed to the £420 - £450 other shops (even online ones) sell them at. I also got the pedals, chain lube, two spare 50g tubes, 2 x bottle cages discounted too. Total spend was £1825 fully delivered, insured and in their bikeguard box.

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I know. He is a man of few words but does the job right. My wifes back is Bob on now that he has done the fitting and none of this 'while you are here I recommend you buy this seat for a hundred quid from me and it will change everything'. Another mate had one done in Cheshire and paid 130 for the same results but he also got 'advised' to get this stem. Stem was only 10mm difference and you could sort that sliding the seat back. He also keeps a record of your sizing and will apply, if possible, to a new bike for 20 quid.

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Got to love the police


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So my new ride arrived yesterday. Not had a chance to get out on it yet but off work tomorrow which means Play day !!!!! Looking forward to that :).

Have in the interim used another pair of MTB Trail pedals. Same ones I have on my MTB. Temporary measure. I'll be picking up some proper "Road bike" pedals and new shoes to go with them but that's going to set me back about £130 or so. As I already had decent enough shoes, £16 for a second pair of pedals made sense.

...but yeah, they're a temporary fixture.

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Also a pic of my Asgard storage unit. Took me about 90 minutes to build.

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Very posh, loving the proper matt CF finish. Too many manufacturers are painting it at the moment.

Yeah no paint = less weight :)

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Hahahahahahaha. Indeed.

Well, it looks like those lovely wheels above are possibly consigned to the bike graveyard. Some daft bint decided pulling into the petrol station right across my path was a good thing. Not when I crashed into her and somersaulted over the bonnet into a heap on the floor. Paramedics and Police attended. She uttered the immortal words..."I'm sorry, I didn't see you" lol.

Anyway, have had the bike looked at and been advised that an impact that hard (which forced the front wheel to come off the fork) is pretty much a write off. Even if there are no visible signs, as it's a carbon fibre frame, there'll likely be stress fractures so they just advise a write off immediately. So as such, I've filed a claim through her car insurance which she gave me all the details for. Bit o' luck, that'll all go through fine especially as she made the turn across the carriageway right into my path.

Once that's done, I'm going to send off the old frame to Canyon to be completely assessed and x-ray'd. There is quite the possibility it'll come back clean. In which case, I got a free bike out of it :). As for me, road rash, sore wrist, shoulder, leg, knees... the ususal. Fortunately didn't come down on my head. :p

Glad you're ok. I do think a bike isn't your own until you have crashed it lol. How on earth didn't she see a bright Lycra clad bloke coming towards her ?

I have a real thing about drivers on their phones at the moment. Got hit from behind (I was in a marked cycle lane) by a van wing mirror at 40mph and a witness said the driver was playing on his phone. If I'm out and about at school run time, the number of women transporting their kids home with a phone constantly lit up in one hand amazes me ! Then you get the pure pig headed, "I must get past this bike" drivers. I'm quite an offensive rider as in I'll position myself so cars can't pass me if I don't think its safe. You still get the odd twat trying to squeeze through even if it's just to race up to the queue of traffic in front of them.

I don't think of it as them vs us though, everyone is trying to get somewhere. Too many in our cycling club think all drivers are twats and all cyclists are godly. It just isn't the case. We have our fair share of dick heads lol.

Good luck with your recovery,

Malty

Least you don't sound too badly off mate. Lots of fuckers don't pay attention these days and car drivers are a lot better protected than us. How much will it cost you to get it evaluated by Canyon?

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Cheers guys, yeah injuries to me are just road rash, sprained wrist and some deep tissue bruising to my shoulder. Other than that, I'm good.


I've had the bike looked at by Cycle Surgery in the interim, they'll be giving me a full report when I go back to pick up the bike etc.

I'm not sure how much it'll cost for Canyon to fully assess it but I'm expecting a couple of hundred quid. In the end it'll be worth it if it comes back clean and safe to ride as I'll have a spare bike I can use for winter and on my turbo. If the frame comes back compromised, it's only a couple of hundred I guess :)


Yeah Malty, I see those kinds of drivers all the time, but then on the flip side, the amount of cyclists that go past me when I'm stopped at a red light on my own bike is amazing. Most of them are people on Halfords ride aways in jeans and no helmet but you do get a fair few kitted up road cyclists going through too whom really should know better.

I guess so. What are you basing the 200 potential cost on? Is that an estimate off Canyon or based on others experience?

The £200 was what I was advised the potential X-Ray costs could be, of course that's an undetermined figure. However, Canyon do a crash replacement scheme. You send the frame to them, they check it, if it's f00ked, you can buy a new frame off them for 50% of the normal cost (in the 1st year, the 2nd and 3rd year of ownership, the frame costs a little more but never the full amount). Once I've got all this shit sorted, I think I'll wing the old frame off, if it's definitely dead, I'll have 'em send me a new one out at half or just over half the price. Then I'll build it into a winter bike.

So, I've got all the claim forms here, got the full report that the frame is a write off, going to get all that sent off in the post tomorrow.

In the meantime, I ordered a replacement, can't be arsed waiting months and months for the settlement plus I'm doing Anglesey 103 miler in August so I really need to be out training. Ordered the same model as I really liked it and don't see the need to "upgrade" just yet.

Only difference is the colour scheme. At least it has black bar tape this time as opposed to feckin white.... which becomes grey :)

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Most of the £200 would be the analysis. I go and conduct x-rays at an external company and pay £12 per image. It used to cover the booth time and the cost of the film. The last couple of times I've had digital images with some software provided by them which I can use to apply filters which are really useful for spotting flaws and contact points etc. I don't know if you fancy doing all of that but the company is called Aerotech Inspection & NDT Ltd. in Cradley Heath.

Something to consider as and when all this is settled.

Cheers :)

Sorry to hear about the bike but you're ok,that's the main thing.I had the same thing happened to me when I was testing out my new bike on my estate.Old bint turned left onto her drive as I was cycling along,I got the same as you DPS,"sorry I didn't see you" :angry: Luckily I managed to swerve onto her drive and avoid contact. I'd have gone fecking mental if she so much as scratched it :angry:
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Glad you avoided contact mate. That's a gorgeous bike. I was really calm for some reason lol. Just glad I was OK I guess.

Glad to hear that you are alright mate (unfortunately not so the Canyon). This is the exact reason I only ride a Mountain Bike (off road / trails) these days, as at least if I have a bad off, it will be generally down to my own stupidity / lack of skill. Rather than the fault of some nutmeg driver.

I tried a few years ago to ride to work as only a few miles away and the amount of careless drivers amazed me, in that one week I avoided being knocked off several times.

I've seen an accident similar to yours except it ended worse, the car was doing a right hand turn and the bike was coming in the opposite direction, the cyclist slammed on the brakes to avoid hitting the car and going over the bonnet except he went head over heels and landed in the road in front of the car and the car didn't stop and went over his legs.

The amazing thing was the next vehicle to approach within 10 seconds was an ambulance and obviously stopped.

Don't get wrong I'm not painting a picture of all cyclists being perfect when you have those that don't even stop at red lights and seem to think everyone should avoid them rather than they play their part in staying safe.

Glad to hear you were OK tho dpSparhawk.

Cheers guys. Yeah a bike can always be replaced or potentially fixed where possible. It is relatively easy to ride safe, just have to assume that all drivers are idiots and to expect the unexpected :).... must admit, this one definitely caught me out though lol.

As for red lights, have never understood why anyone would ride through them.... bike plus person up against 1.5t of car and person... it's a no brainer (that said, the no brain part probably applies completely hehe.)

Update on my bike accident last March.


Received letter from the solicitors today and I'll be receiving just over£6.5K payout. Not bad at all. :)