I’ve had a real busy day, what did I miss?
Hammerer’s erotic visions of DE
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I wonder if those fools will get the subtle Ironwar reference. Pity them.
Anyone from Canyon reading this must be scratching their heads. Unless someone very smart at Canyon approached DE, which could be a really smart move: some Twitchers have an almost cult like following for DE, if he says buy the old Canyon, some may indeed do so.
Canyon have a very effective discount stock page. The savings that DE is talking about seem quite small compared with some of the discounts that Canyon promote themselves
Yeah I can’t quite make out his angle. It almost smacks of him trying to keep his ‘influence’ relevant in the wake of the LCB/Cube announcement.
I like how asks for opinions, then cracked the shits when he didn’t get the answers he wanted. 
I was trying to think of when I first heard of Canyon. IIRC it was when Cadel Evan’s team switched to them but I can’t remember the year. Their road bikes do nothing for me but I do fancy a Lux but have a perfectly good Giant Anthem in the garage.
Was just about to ask “Was that when he rode a rebadged PX Stealth?”
But that was for Ridley in 2007.
I saw a few Canyons when I lived in Germany; but they were very low volume in the 00s.
I was trying to think of them as well but couldn’t. he went Mapei, T-Mobile- Ridley- then?
BMC wasn’t it?
Saying getting riders on bikes doesn’t influence buying decisions…
I bought my BMC (partly) because I remembered Cadel Evans riding one and Greg van Avermeat did (and now does again…but the bike he is riding looks 
even the new kit looks good )
hah of course! old age creeping in to my memory.
Had to look it up. he rode Canyon for Silence-Lotto in 2009
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Ooh! Missed that one 
I liked him and him smacking people who touched his teddy bear
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What’s Cube’s sub £9k TT/Tri range looking like? They have to be accessible to the ‘masses’ for it to work in any way.
It remains to be seen, but I’m not sure that despite LCB’s huge SM prsence, they will manage to get loads of highly affluent Type A male triathletes on their top-end bikes (let’s assume it’s still a sport dominated by men over 40 in particular…). I mean, if she over-does the PR, ir might actually make people think they are too ‘mainstream’ 
I may be wrong 
Lucy’s bike is sub £9k.
£8,999 RRP.
Currently £8,499 at Rutland Cycles, Leisure Lakes etc.
Lucy riding a Cube will get nobody (well, not recoupable) to ride them.
Canyon by far and away represent the best bang for your buck for new bikes.
Your typical M40+ triathlete is generally riding some shod-wagon from 2008, or at least that’s what it was like at Helvellyn.
Very very few “nice” bikes in the AG area.
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A snip
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F me when did sub £9k mean a budget Tri/TT bike!? I’ve never spent more than £1500 on a bike 
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My P3X, with an amazing deal from Cervelo, cost half the price of the Cube, and I would not swap. It was by far the most I have ever spent on a bike
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The premium range bikes seem to have gotten proportiontely more expensive in the last 10-15 years? The Speedmax SLX in pauper spec is how much?
ETA - SLX starts at £8.5k ‘Crappy’ SL starts at £3.3k
I think the first Canyon I saw was being ridden by an Aussie mate in around 2009, so that would probably fit with the Cadel angle.
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I’ll take two please /sarcasm.
Who is buying these bikes? Is it driven by finance like car buying is?
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