Canyon Speedmax 2021

This is for US market.
I was looking and the Orbea Ordu earlier.
The less expensive one was 5000 with mecanical and disk brakes.
When you go to electronic shifting you climb to 6000 and 500 for pm

For the same money, you can get a canyon with Zipp wheels, eTap and also a power meter.
(Wheels seem to be the same price point for both bikes).
To me I would probably chose Orbea at that price just because of LBS support.

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Oh, BTW.

Obrea ALSO updated their bikes. Ordu is now Disc brakes only…

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Imagine you’ve just exited the water, heart pounding out of your chest as you run into transition. While you were swimming, those dark clouds you saw 30 minutes ago are now directly overhead and it has been lightly raining for the last 10 minutes. You exit transition and hop on your bike, cold feet into the shoes, colder hands fumbling with the gears because you forgot to set it up correctly.

You spin up a hill directly from T1, and you’re feeling good as you just passed two people who beat you out of the water. As you crest the hill you see the descent in front of you. You saw it on your course recon but didn’t think much of it. It was a dry sunny day when you drove it after all. But now it’s cold, your hands are still half numb, and the road is that perfect kind of slick you get on roads are just seeing their first rain in several weeks.

Down you go. You know you have a 90 degree turn at the bottom of this, so you keep your speed under control, squeezing the brakes occasionally. The grade steepens. You squeeze the brakes again, but now you realize you aren’t slowing much. Your rim brakes + carbon clinchers + rain are about the worst combination you could ask for. You see the turn, but you’re not stopping. You’ve had your brakes squeezed back to the bars for over 10 seconds now and you just keep on scooting past your turn.

Finally you slow enough to turn around, hit your turn and off you go. Up ahead you see those two guys you passed earlier. They made the turn. Disc brakes road bikes with clip ons. They won’t see you again, as you’re about 100 yards back the rest of the race.

After the race is over, you hear the first guy out of the water crashed at that turn and ended his day. He couldn’t slow enough, still tried to make the turn, and slid out.

You don’t always need disc brakes, but if you do and don’t have them, it’s a bad time.

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Yea, those Dtswiss ARC wheels are AWEFUL in the rain. I did Eagleman last year. It’s pancake flat and I though I was going to die on those 90degree turns.

My god…that is hideous.

Ive seen worse cough dimond cough

You need to learn that is not how it looks but its feelings!

I’ll take a Dimond any day over the Cube…

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Hey!
Come on…
The cube is a very friendly bike!
Dont be superficial! :rofl:

I’m sure it has a great personality… :joy: :joy:

back on topic, the new Speedmax looks pretty damn nice. But holy hell their nomenclature system sucks…it is almost impossible to tell one bike form another.

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So I just talked to Canyon Customer Support through the website chat. According to what they told me, the Rim-Brake models are the old models, and they will not manufacture more of them. They are just selling the leftover stock. From now on they will only manufacture the Disk Brake models.

I was interested in the CF 8.0 or 8.0 SL in size S, but it’s not available right now, and according to this info probably will not get back in stock. This sucks :roll_eyes:

I absolutely expected canyon to not continue producing the rim brake model…

Yes, and that confirms the price increases for 2021, once they sell through the old stock, the Disk Brake models will be the only options.

Even with the lesser wheels the Cervelo P-series is probably faster than the Canyon CF 7.0

Cervelo has done a little bit better job than Canyon in the aero category. The outgoing version of the Speedmax (the rim-brake integrated one) was about 12 watts slower than the P5 three in independent testing.

Get the Cervelo, sell the wheels for maybe $200 then turn around and buy some Hed Jets or something. It’ll end up being just a couple hundred more than the Canyon option but will be much faster if that is something that matters to you

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my $0.02

For 6500 @ canyon CF 8.0, you get etap AND a powermeter.
And slightly better wheels than cervelo p-series.

Canyon has no CF 7.0 available, and even then prices were 1500 less expensive than p-series.

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I just bought a PM a few weeks ago, the Assioma Duos, so I don’t really need another powermeter. And 6500 is way way out of my budget.

In Europe there is still stock in all sizes of the CF 7.0

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I SO WANT TO BUY
because i know they will be gone forever soon!
Oh well…
I cant, so i have to wait and see what happens…

I would love the CF 8.0 SL for 400€ more, with DT Swiss 1400 wheels and Ultegra groupset, but according to their size chart, I’m a S size, and they only have XS or M.

Do you think I could fit in a XS or an M at 175cm? :sweat_smile:

Edit: I’ve been looking at the dimensions and geometry of both the Speedmax CF and the setup I have in my road bike (with the aero bars), and I actually think the XS might be the right size for me.

Decisions, decisions :thinking:

Sorry to bump an old thread - you were right and I was wrong! UCI legal Speedmax Disc seen being raced by Marc Soler at the Tour de Romandie. Seems like a slimmed down version of the non-UCI bike.

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While I think that bike is pretty aesthetically pleasing, it really doesn’t look like a „new UCI-rules“ bike.
The frame looks very similar to the Shiv TT.