Tech dropWorlds3 weeks ago
Canyon Speedmax CFR TT: a triathlon bike stripped down for UCI legality
Race resultGold + silver, still unreleased
Winning distance39.2 km — longest women's Worlds ITT route ever
Frame weight1,440 g
Development testing456 CFD tests, 97 validation runs
Wind-tunnel checkDone in Germany, one week after Tour de France Femmes
Marlen Reusser won her second straight Worlds time trial title on a bike Canyon hadn't released yet. The Speedmax CFR TT shares its DNA with Canyon's Speedmax triathlon bike — but triathlon frames get design freedom road bikes don't, so Canyon had to slim the tube profiles and strip out integrated storage to fit UCI's dimensional rules. That's the real story here: not a new bike winning a race, but how much of a triathlon platform survives the translation into something the UCI will actually let you race. Reusser had it in the wind tunnel just a week after the Tour de France Femmes, then raced it as a prototype in Montreal — an aggressive turnaround for a flagship TT frame.
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Canyon's unreleased Speedmax CFR TT bike dominates elite women's individual time trial at UCI Road Cycling World ChampionshipsUCI Road World Championships 2026: Marlen Reusser retains women's time trial title'I'm glad I didn't know the splits' - Marlen Reusser scores second career ITT title at World ChampionshipsCanyon launches new UCI-legal Speedmax CFR Disc TT time trial bikeSpeedmax CFR TT | CANYON EC
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