Originally Posted by
genejockey
That's a nice looking build!
Yeah, even shopping Canyon's Outlet, it looks like $6500 is the lowest you could get an Aeroad with electronic shifting.
The other thing I wonder about aero bikes, especially with deep section wheels is stability in crosswinds. It's almost always at least breezy here, and that means at least some of the time I'm dealing with crosswinds. I love the look of an aero frame with deep section wheels, but I fear being blown around too much.
Thanks!
Canyon makes amazing bikes but IMO they have really lost me QC and price wise. The Ultimate and Aeroad are still amazing bikes but $6500 for a direct to consumer bike is still a lot since at that price you could build a Winspace T1500 with SRAM Red. When I brought the bike to be built up at my LBS the mechanic had no clue who Winspace was and 6 months later I met three other riders who built T1500s up at that same LBS.
I am a pretty small and light rider but honestly the deeper wheels aren't that bad since they aren't V shaped. I mostly ride on covered bike paths so the wind is minimal. Either way the money you saved not going big name brand you can easily buy two carbon wheel sets: one deep and one mid/shallow