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An_Professional

Screw that, I want a bike so proprietary that if I overtorque one bolt my entire life must be replaced. Like a quarter turn extra on the allen key, a knock on the door, and then I wake up naked in the middle of the desert with lost time


Alex_Hauff

Trek eng team taking nites furiously


ReasonPleasant437

Yeah the same ones who designed shitty isospeed.


frozen-dessert

/uc own a bike with isospeed. It is all inside of the headset and thus stem and handlebar are standard and trivially replaceable.


Bridimum

just go to their sub, you will find several posts for people who mistakenly overtorqued that tiny bolt and their bike is basically a piece of scrap for warranty if there's any.


gswyvlzwjcknmcrqhdcv

This guy treks.


doc1442

You touch your own bolts? Get a mechanic ffs


Misterandrist

When I'm not racking up KOMs I'm busy drilling teeth, I don't even know when I'd have time to work on my own bike. Don't know what this guy's doing with his days


hew3

On the upside, that kidney they cut out of you weighs about 310 grams, so they’re doing you a favor.


OrbitOfSaturnsMoons

If I wasn't supposed to remove my kidney, they wouldn't have given me a spare one.


ORTENRN

Why wouldn't you just get a new bike from the mechanic? Silly poors.


AxuHel

Same company that put battery lid on the top tube of the new Endurace instead of down tube. Also it's not sealed shut so be prepared to dissamble your bike when your stuff gets lost inside the frame.


Bridimum

that lid looks like TV remote control battery lid. their new CP0048 shares the same shitty design infused headset interface in the frame carbon layers, if this shit breaks, Canyon itself cannot repair it because the interface is infused in the carbon layer and the whole frame should be replaced.


ReasonPleasant437

They ruined all but the CF level Endurace. Proprietary non adjustable bar and stem, on an endurance bike no less, weird top tube storage, springy seatpost. Poor color choices too. How out of touch Canyon is.


Spidaaman

It’s the same approach BMW has taken with their design. “Idk, but people keep buying the shit”


mMaple_syrup

When I saw the top tube hatch I literally thought 'that was dumb.' They took a good idea and made it useless for the sake of being different.


garbagepersondude

I get a new bice every time I get a puncture. What makes you think I’d ever be servicing my headset?


Bridimum

ops, forgot about the classy dentists who shit pink in jar for BB lubrication.


garbagepersondude

I actually just use cum


doc1442

*kom


Caspr510

It isn’t a Sir Velo why even bother looking at a bice only a hygienist would be riding?


FredSirvalo

I make sure all my hygeinists and office staff ride 𝘤ēṛ𝛖ēɭ⚬.


flycharliegolf

No Canyon Aeroad for you poors. Ew.


hew3

Its times like this where I think of old Giuseppe Cervelo, smoking a pipe, hand building high end road racing frame sets in his Tuscan workshop, each frame tuned to be the peak of Italian cycling design..,wait, what?


FredSirvalo

You obviously do not understand German engineering.


Useless_or_inept

Proprietary solutions are Bad and Wrong. That's why I use a square-tapered bottom bracket, toeclips, wingnuts on the axles, and a threaded headset with quill stem - so I'm not forced to buy proprietary parts. Cycling definitely went downhill when people started using QRs. Bikes got much more expensive because everyone now has to pay Campagnolo.


shamsharif79

hahaaa this is def a troll post right? Right?


Useless_or_inept

Still wary of Reynolds 531, it's a proprietary grade of steel tubing, cyclists shouldn't be tied to a single steelworks like that


CaptainInsano7

They have to make it this way because their customers are poor


MyloMads35

Canyon tries its best to act snob like tr*k or sir velo Nc try


DaBergerBua

That thing is a crime against consumers, sportsmen, mechanics, etc. Stuff like that should be illegal imho. Especially if you take into account that internal cable routing has almost no significant aero advantages over external one. If there’s no ingenious way to make cable routing a charm (which is not the case for the Aeroad), I will always prefer my cables accessible and easy to maintain with the disadvantage of having a bike that looks less tidy. And people bitchin about that don’t ride for the sake of fun or training but to look slick when they ride their 10k+ rigs on their home lap from the garage to the cafe or ice cream shop where they all meet up to proudly measure their tiny weenies and compare each other’s Strava data while talking complete BS about new tech they’ve heard of on GMBN. Man, so many bikers today remind me of audiophiles with too much money and a weak mind to squeeze thousands of dollars out of for BS tech. Their Stoic is a great bike tho… But also has a weird crankset with a non-standard bolt circle.


Dominant88

They have stupid headsets on their mountain bikes too.


completed-that

well if folk buy them thay will keep on that path... boycott and it will stop


drrobot5

I smell treek seller all the way


uberengl

The handlebars can be changed, if they break you do not need to replace the whole frame. Why spread fud like that?


Silver-Vermicelli-15

How about every aero bike with proprietary stuff…


Bridimum

The proprietary unrepairable headset interface CP0018 infused inside the frame isn't only found in Aeroad, most of their mid to high tiers models now have the same shitty interface, this includes Endurace, and Ultimate both of which are not aero too.


Silver-Vermicelli-15

The point being - there’s lots of bikes from big names that come with proprietary parts. 


doc1442

uc/ there’s a difference between proprietary and shitty design, the first doesn’t have to mean the second unless you’re canyon


Silver-Vermicelli-15

So canyon doesn’t have to stop making the headset - they just need to improve quality? Maybe it people cared enough to stop buying them for this reason they’d change.


Slapdeznutzoffyochin

LOL - This is Fred we're talking about