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Canyon Ultimate CF

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  • Registered Users Posts: 618 ✭✭✭jdt101


    Speaking of Canyon... the postman just called :D

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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,508 ✭✭✭Lemag


    jdt101 wrote: »
    Speaking of Canyon... the postman just called :D
    What is it?


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,379 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    Lemag wrote: »
    What is it?

    a cardboard box


  • Registered Users Posts: 618 ✭✭✭jdt101


    Lemag wrote: »
    What is it?

    Ultimate CF Frame Black


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,824 ✭✭✭levitronix


    wellcome to the club


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,508 ✭✭✭Lemag


    levitronix wrote: »
    wellcome to the club
    Team GarminBoards-CerveloCanyon :confused::p


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,379 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    Lemag wrote: »
    Team GarminBoards-CerveloCanyon :confused::p

    more like teamboards planet-x canyon


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,860 ✭✭✭TinyExplosions


    more like teamboards planet-x canyon

    team boards focus planet-x boardman canyon


  • Registered Users Posts: 144 ✭✭karlmyson


    Lumen wrote: »
    Cosmetic only? Get out! :pac:

    I think the OP was asking about Canyons, where top caps are purely cosmetic and not needed unless you want to fill in the hole. On other brands, of course they do serve to preload the headset bearings. That's not needed on Canyons, the bearings are loaded using a very small allen bolt on the headset itself.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,964 ✭✭✭furiousox


    OP I'm 174cm and the Canyon calculator was telling me to go for a 52.
    I went with the 54 Ultimate CF and it fits me perfectly.
    Great bike, you won't be disappointed.

    CPL 593H



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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,435 ✭✭✭christeb


    karlmyson wrote: »
    I think the OP was asking about Canyons, where top caps are purely cosmetic and not needed unless you want to fill in the hole. On other brands, of course they do serve to preload the headset bearings. That's not needed on Canyons, the bearings are loaded using a very small allen bolt on the headset itself.

    What happens if rain gets in?


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,508 ✭✭✭Lemag


    christeb wrote: »
    What happens if rain gets in?
    It goes through the forks.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,431 ✭✭✭zzzzzzzz


    Tiny stones rattle though


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,508 ✭✭✭Lemag


    Cosmetic appearance of the cap aside I'd rather have it and not have to worry about small stone, bird sh1t, or anything else that might find its way down there.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,604 ✭✭✭petethedrummer


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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,964 ✭✭✭furiousox


    Lemag wrote: »
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    The ashtray is standard across the range...

    CPL 593H



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,435 ✭✭✭christeb


    Lemag wrote: »
    It goes through the forks.

    cool, then I'll save the cash and go weight weenie on this occasion. Although there are the obvious aero considerations....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88 ✭✭Neverlandland


    Lemag wrote: »
    +1
    You probably wouldn't make much of a saving. You'd effectively be selling a secondhand groupset and would you be confident with fitting the replacement groupset. You'd also need to buy the tools to do this.

    As Lumen said, if this is something which you're really contemplating then you really ought to go with a cheaper bike.

    I've got a corporate discount at the LBS, so can pick up random things at decent prices. That is why, at one stage, I was thinking about buying the frameset for 1,000 and building the rest up myself, although I was talked out of it


  • Registered Users Posts: 618 ✭✭✭jdt101


    I finally opened the box...

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  • Registered Users Posts: 895 ✭✭✭Dubba


    Very nice! Much work in putting it together or come built?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 618 ✭✭✭jdt101


    Dubba wrote: »
    Very nice! Much work in putting it together or come built?

    I only bought the frame. Built the bike myself in a couple of hours.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,830 ✭✭✭doozerie


    Lemag wrote: »
    It goes through the forks.

    By that I'm not sure if you mean that water/whatever just falls through? It doesn't on mine, my steerer tube is sealed at about the level of the head tube. So I could fill it with energy drink, stick in a straw, and pretend I'm a triathlete.

    ...I'd fail to be convincing as a triathlete though, as I am reluctant to fall off for no reason. :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,508 ✭✭✭Lemag


    doozerie wrote: »
    By that I'm not sure if you mean that water/whatever just falls through? It doesn't on mine, my steerer tube is sealed at about the level of the head tube. So I could fill it with energy drink, stick in a straw, and pretend I'm a triathlete.
    For my Canyon, if I pour water through the cap it comes out through the dropouts. Energy drink might prove to be too viscous and therefore the fork might work as a receptacle. I wonder what volume it could hold:confused:


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