Although the first time he rode his new Canyon Lux was last week in Albstadt, Mathieu van der Poel got along with it right away. It took him to an XCC win in Albstadt, then a seventh place in the XCO. Next, he outsprinted Tom Pidcock to take the Nove Mesto XCC victory by just a hair, even though he said his legs weren't working as well as he wanted them to.
Van der Poel's mechanic says it doesn't take much before he's comfortable on a bike, and once it's dialed in, he likes to keep his setup essentially the same. He's not too finicky about settings and doesn't often adjust his suspension, keeping all his compression and rebound settings in the middle of the range. He'll typically run about 75psi in his fork and 110psi in his shock.
While he almost always chooses to ride a full suspension bike, even when his competitors are racing hardtails, he never uses a dropper post. He did try one for a bit, but just couldn't get along with it, and he is clearly doing just fine with his rigid post.
He does not run a dropper post. He tried one for a while, but didn't like it.
Shimano hubs get the job done, laced to carbon rims.
The devil's in the details.
An XTR drivetrain keeps him cruising forward...
...and XTR brakes provide plenty of control.
Aspen tires front and rear worked for van der Poel today in the short track, and he'll keep his setup more or less the same for the XCO Sunday, though he may run a different chainring.
Congratulations on the win today, Mathieu. We look forward to watching another exciting race this Sunday.
He probably uses a lot more than canabis oil...
To = preposition
Too = also, as well
Two = 4
For = preposition
Fore = front
Four = 2
wrong fork, no rims listed, no bike size much less saddle height. Maybe I’m the only one who likes dorking our, but what’s the cassette size that he’s running? Prefer a bailout for bad days/spinning, or prefers closer ratios?
Still happy to have something, and a regular racing season in Europe!
• Fox 34 Step-Cast with 100m travel.
• DUKE carbon rims.
• 10-51 cassette.
• Limited edition frame with his logo (1000 pieces).
• The weight of the whole bike in size L is 10.5 kg including pedals.
Let The Legs Do The Talking
Please don’t win everything again. Sharing is nice
www.canyon.com/en-si/mountain-bikes/cross-country-bikes/lux/lux-cf-slx-9-team/2650.html
"DUKE Lucky Jack SLS3 Ultra"
www.duke-racingwheels.com/duke-lucky-jack-sls-ultra/?lang=en
Sold here:
www.bike24.com/p2462135.html
Price = 336,13 € / $408.26 USD
That's less than half the price of similar ENVE rims?
That’s pretty nutty.
youtu.be/tuafhcg843c
I thought they were so stupid, then i tried one. Bought one immediately. That was 7 years ago.
To each their own, i guess. After all, if "better" was always more fun, no one would ride hardtails. Of course droppers and better and more fun and probably faster too
Nino changes his suspension at the bars something like 200 times a race, Linda Indergand still dropped her seat every lap for that last berm even after it was failing, knowing she would have to pull it up by hand...
You'll also find that most XC dropper posts only drop between 30mm and 80mm, which is really all you need for a XC course... the other advantage to a small drop is that if the post fails and it's stuck in the down position tou can still use it to pedal, sort of, compared to if a 150mm post was stuck in the down position.
Subject: Tied and Soldered Wheels
From: Jobst Brandt
Date: December 16, 1996
While writing The Bicycle Wheel, to conclusively determine what effect tying and soldering of spoke crossings in a wheel had, I asked Wheelsmith to lend me an untied pair of standard 36-spoke rear wheels, on Campagnolo low and high flange hubs. I had an inner body of a freewheel machined with flats so that a wheel could be clamped into the vise of a Bridgeport milling machine while the left end of its axle was held in the quill.
With the hub rigidly secured, with its axle vertical, dial gauges were mounted at four equally spaced locations on the machine bed to measure rim deflections as a 35lb weight was sequentially hung on the wheel at these positions. The deflections were recorded for each location and averaged for each wheel before and after tying and soldering spokes.
The wheels were also measured for torsional rigidity in the same fixture, by a wire anchored in the valve hole and wrapped around the rim so that a 35-lb force could be applied tangential to the rim. Dial gauges located at two places 90 degrees apart in the quadrant away from the applied load were used to measure relative rotation between the wheel and hub.
Upon repeating the measurements after tying and soldering the spokes, no perceptible change, other than random measurement noise of a few thousandths of an inch, was detected. The spokes were tied and soldered by Wheelsmith, which did this as a regular service. The data were collected by an engineer who did not know what I expected to find. I set up the experiment and delivered the wheels.
To qualify as UST, a rim must pass certain tests for ease of inflation, tire mounting and dismounting, retention at low pressures.
UST or Universal System Tubeless is a US patent 6257676 rim designed by Mavic with hooked edges designed to seal with specially designed tires. Several companies such as Michelin and Hutchinson make tires compatible with UST rims. UST was the first tubeless system for bicycles.
Looks like the "Chunky" or "Extra Chunky" model.
Too thick for "Racer's Edge".
Great Grips.