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Canyon has adjusted the geometry to make the new Aeroad slightly less aggressive

The new Aeroad CFR is the latest, top-of-the-range aero road bike from Canyon. Building on the much-admired Aeroad CF SLX, this latest evolution of Canyon’s wind-cheating race platform goes all-in on aero while still managing to be competitively lightweight. As we’ve come to expect from the German direct sales giant, it’s also great value.

From the outside, the changes from the previous Aeroad are subtle, and that’s perhaps no bad thing. Although the original is pretty long in the tooth now, it remains a great bike and was still being ridden in this year’s Tour de France. For the new model, Canyon has worked with aero experts Swiss Side to do extensive Computational Fluid