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Hello Ian
I'm trying to figure out if I am going to fit on either the SL or SLX frame. I've only ridden a road bike before and as this thread has repeated multiple times the numbers from a road bike might be meaningless. So I'll just post my body measurements from the previous bike fit and hopefully that will give you enough info to approximate my pad X, pad Y. I'm 1.98cm tall, the inseam is 93.5cm, torso is 69cm, current seat height is 83cm. The guy that did my road bike fit told me that my torso is longer than average and that concerns me if it would be possible to get the required Pad X length on any of the Canyon frames as I am already pretty tall.
Homulvas,
No doubt that a proper fitting road bike and a proper fitting tri bike are different. I like to reiterate this often: best way buy a tri bike: get a prefit done by an educated, experienced triathlon fitter who uses a dynamic fit bike....next best way: measure off an existing tri bike that fits pretty well...next best is giving me the numbers you offered and letting me massage then into a formula that's pretty darn good.
To that end...I think your Pad Y is ~688 and your Pad X is ~540
Let's start with the Canyon Speedmax SLX (this is the super bike). You'd be a size Large, with a short stem (comes stock), pads mounted dead center, and you would need everything they make as pedestal: 55mm of spacer + an aftermarket item called the "High Stack Flat Spring". The max Pad Y on this bike is 685 and I'm guessing your Pad Y at 688. So if I'm dead-on, it's 3mm too low and, hey, 3mm, that's not that big of a deal. But there's no going up. This is the max.
Let's now prescribe the Canyon Speedmax CF (this is the mortal bike). You'd need a size Extra Large and you'd be right in the middle, the sweet spot of this bike with the stock stem that comes on it. This is for sure a safer bet for you in terms of fit.
Get back to me here if you have more questions.
Ian
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