Canyon Roadlite – 1st Ride Entry
by admin on May.20, 2010, under Bikes
Well, it’s finally arrived. And sweet it is indeed.
Mostly good anyway, lets have a look at it.
Very light, very stiff (yet surprisingly comfy), very very quick and proper new bike solid. I absolutely love it. Fits me like a glove, everything works great and I had a brilliant ride, really didn’t want to go home to be honest. It accelerates like no other bike I’ve ever ridden, like a scalded cat it is.
Bad bits? Minor things really. They connected the brakes up European stylee with the front on the left despite me emailing them about four times asking them not to do that. The STI’s are a little high on the bars too for my liking. They only had compact or triple so I went for compact and a tiny cassette which is OK but I wished they’d have offered standard.
Still brilliant though, very happy so far. I’m struggling for storage space at home though so until I get more secure/dry storage sorted out, the Kaffenback has had to go back in the attic. Plus on the way back through Wigan a complete and utter feckwit in a brand new RangeRover just drifted across a big roundabout forcing me into the outside lane where a car almost drove over me, I shot back over to the cock and hammered my fist on the side of the car then accelerated in front of him and gave him a big fucking finger right up close to the windscreen, he took one look at me and floored it off. Bell end. Hope I dinted it.
May 21st, 2010 on 8:46 pm
hmmmmm. A road bike. hmmmmm.
Enjoy.
May 22nd, 2010 on 12:25 pm
I worry when Samuri gets something that enables him to go even /faster/!
October 2nd, 2010 on 8:07 pm
what size is this? maybe a 56? canyon recommends me a 54, i´m 179cm tall. what do you think about this? thanks, great bike.
October 2nd, 2010 on 10:47 pm
Yep, it’s a 56. I’m not sure to be honest, I reckon you’re right on the middle there between the two sizes. I’m 181 cm, I’d guess you might be a bit stretched out on the 56.
October 4th, 2010 on 2:19 pm
thanks for your help!! I will order a 54 size with a stem of a 56. dunno if that is possible, but i will try.
thanks and enjoy your machine. how is it performing so far?
October 4th, 2010 on 9:05 pm
It’s great, I’m really happy with it, I really can’t fault it. The only issue I’ve had is that the spokes sometimes ping a bit under load, but that’s a very small thing.
1461 miles with no problems must be a new record for me.