Seems Canyon is offering this „off-white“ color. Well it‘s an update for having only mint and black, i guess. I assume keeping the white one clean is a big mess?
https://www.canyon.com/en-gb/road-bikes/triathlon-bikes/speedmax/cf/speedmax-cf-8-disc-di2/3061.html
White bikes have always been good, just heavy.
Heavy because slightly more paint?
Yeah, takes a lot of paint to make a clean smooth white over carbon.
Personally I love white . . . I had a white P3 (I also have a white car). However, I do not like this off-white.
White is “cute and polite.”
desert dude’s thoughts on bike colors still apply:
What are you thinking? Are you crazy? Black bikes have souls, lots of them, they sucked all the souls from ugly green, red, blue, and other clolr bikes. A black bike says don’t f*ck with this guy. It’s like having the worst of Satan and the best of Jesus in one bike. You suck the life from other rides and it goes into your legs, giving you more watts and taking watts from them. At Soma I rolled up on a guy on a blue bike that is from a highly esteemed maker. he said you are having a nice ride (I started 3 min behind him) I pointed at my Lucero - the badest badass bike out there and said “This bike gives me the power to crush you, take your energy and leave you twisting in the wind. You have nothing left for this race. BE GONE.” He finished several minutes behind me. A black bike is so bad ass that no one, not one single person tried to pass me in my last 3 races during the bike, well one tried but only b/c his bike was black and blue but he son succumbed to the rolling fury that my bike is. This is the power a black bike brings. Sure you could ride something cute and covered with flowers, maybe a bell or streamers on the handlebars, some color coordinated handlebar tape and/or a seat. You could try to ride fast, the kind of fast a yugo gets when going down a hill with the parking brake on. You could try to pass someone “excuse me, but person in my AG could you please move right just a touch so I can squeeze around you, please?” Or you could ride death, something to strike fear into the hearts and minds of those around you. 18.1 pounds of rolling fury, the sound of the disc (black of course) rotating around exuding power combined with the sound of the H3C (black again) screaming down the road. The sound of a 1000 anguished souls coupled with the roar of the mightest creator laughing at the terror before you. Where a simple phrase “on your left” and the sound of fury and hell moves people over into the gutter. Or you can ride cute and polite. You choose, badass or ass bad.
I’m glad I was able to snatch up a used Celeste, I mean Non Mint last year :). Great bike in any color.
White paint often contains titanium, so you can tell people you have a carbon-titanium bike as they are passing you on bikes painted in faster colours.
White is “cute and polite.”
desert dude’s thoughts on bike colors still apply:
What are you thinking? Are you crazy? Black bikes have souls, lots of them, they sucked all the souls from ugly green, red, blue, and other clolr bikes. A black bike says don’t f*ck with this guy. It’s like having the worst of Satan and the best of Jesus in one bike. You suck the life from other rides and it goes into your legs, giving you more watts and taking watts from them. At Soma I rolled up on a guy on a blue bike that is from a highly esteemed maker. he said you are having a nice ride (I started 3 min behind him) I pointed at my Lucero - the badest badass bike out there and said “This bike gives me the power to crush you, take your energy and leave you twisting in the wind. You have nothing left for this race. BE GONE.” He finished several minutes behind me. A black bike is so bad ass that no one, not one single person tried to pass me in my last 3 races during the bike, well one tried but only b/c his bike was black and blue but he son succumbed to the rolling fury that my bike is. This is the power a black bike brings. Sure you could ride something cute and covered with flowers, maybe a bell or streamers on the handlebars, some color coordinated handlebar tape and/or a seat. You could try to ride fast, the kind of fast a yugo gets when going down a hill with the parking brake on. You could try to pass someone “excuse me, but person in my AG could you please move right just a touch so I can squeeze around you, please?” Or you could ride death, something to strike fear into the hearts and minds of those around you. 18.1 pounds of rolling fury, the sound of the disc (black of course) rotating around exuding power combined with the sound of the H3C (black again) screaming down the road. The sound of a 1000 anguished souls coupled with the roar of the mightest creator laughing at the terror before you. Where a simple phrase “on your left” and the sound of fury and hell moves people over into the gutter. Or you can ride cute and polite. You choose, badass or ass bad.
omg this is awesome! i need a lol emoticon badly.
White paint often contains titanium, so you can tell people you have a carbon-titanium bike as they are passing you on bikes painted in faster colours.
I like this.
In the spirit of desert dude:
Any bike that crushes dreams of the abject innocents into dust of hopelessness … is the right color.
Yes, except after Labor Day…
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Heavy because slightly more paint?
If you check any bike specific threads on WW, you’ll notice the difference between minimal black paint and white is usually 150-200g. Even for bikes like the Aethos or SL7 where the mfg is trying to keep weight to a minimum.
Doesn’t really matter for tri bikes. Or road bikes, really. But when an Aethos frame weight goes up by 25% due to paint, I would consider that substantial.
okay, i see. But this only applies if the black is painted „thin“ and white „thicker“ (same bike model). Or can this be taken for granted?
okay, i see. But this only applies if the black is painted „thin“ and white „thicker“ (same bike model). Or can this be taken for granted?
Thin white, will not be white.
Looking at this Canyon all I can see is that heinous routing for the front brake hose. This is meant to be a modern TT bike, not a shopping bike. Looks terrible. Forget the colour, discuss the front brake hose people!!
external breaking hose doesn’t look great but makes disassembling easier (for travel). Also, it’s a question of price- full internal routing doesn’t start at 5/6k (correct me if i am wrong).
It is only marginally worse than the P-series and from a practicality standpoint it makes life easier. They could have cleaning it up a bit by using a bar with a more centralized cable exit (like Cervelo) but really once you get the bike set up all you have to do is trim the cable properly. A lot of stock photos of the bike have completely uncut cables and its all the excess cable that makes it look so heinous. I find the premium price Canyon charges for the CFR front end a more heinous offence.
this thread makes me want to punch a baby
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For my next bike, I’d like a bright color - anything other than black…
Any time advantage I’d gain from riding a bike that is a few grams lighter due to not being painted I’d likely lose in trying to find my bike among a sea of black bikes in the transition area.
For my next bike, I’d like a bright color - anything other than black…
Any time advantage I’d gain from riding a bike that is a few grams lighter due to not being painted I’d likely lose in trying to find my bike among a sea of black bikes in the transition area.
30 years ago I had one of the original neon pink Specialized Transitions. I used to get a lot of crap from people about the color, but I insisted it was the most functional color for a tri bike. Everyone else is coming into T1 looking for their black bike, while I could see mine from the beach… 