Head over Heart; Canyon Ultimate

Looking forward to see the finished build regardless!

Haha I'm already looking at the classics in black for winter; yes I'm that much of a tart

Gumwalls in the wet go black pretty quickly.

Pro tip: never actually ride your bike
Other than that, gumwalls!!

I was just making it sound like I do (don't tell)

Gumwalls will stay gum much, much longer on disc-brake bike.

I saw go for it.

White is bright at night

So whilst waiting for the Hope end cap replacements. New bottle cages arrived.
In with the Specialized out with the elites as the new ones seem a slightly less squeezed fit for the older style camelbak bottles which I use. Pretty exciting stuff building your bike

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Is it built up yet?

Yep apologies I posted in the Canyon thread

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That's a beautiful blue.

Thanks. I'm very happy with it.
Yet to see another which is surprising.

I like the build a lot actually.
Good use of white, even them 'risky' keos ;)

Its good to see Canyon getting back into doing nice colours (obv that's subjective). When I got mine they had a really nice cherry red and apple green that they offered on most of their bikes. Then it was just black black black for years

Thanks, think the Keo's are just about pulled off.
Yeah much prefer simple colour schemes to black black and more black.

Debating this but maybe too matchy matchy

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too matchy matchy

There's no such thing

Haha. Bit more sedate than the Garmin one

White bits or tanwalls. Pick one. Keos are too much either way IMO.

I'd go for black bar tape, saddle and pedals. But looks fun though!

It'll probably see a few incarnations. I'll post when bits change.
It's great fun to ride. Given how long I've been off the bike it's given me only minor issues and I've somewhat jumped into doing 50-60 miles a day.

I'm also considering a longer slow burning project. So maybe the Trek will be seen at some point.

Lovely bike you got there.

white speedplays

Lovely bike! Was it you I saw collecting it from cadence in Crystal palace a month or so back? I was getting a bike fit on my aeroad, and you'd asked about places for the ride of the fallen leaves?

Yep!
How did you find the bike fit?

I feel like this bike is definitely heart over head...

Not sure what I'm walking in to here;
Why?