Which Road bike from this list?

Ordered the Canyon Roadlite AL 6 in Black this morning along with a over £300 worth of shoes, pedals, locks and clothing :eek:

Gone over budget on the clobber, stupidly I thought I'd get it all for £200 but in reality I struggled to come in at £300 even with extreme googling and budgeting! Still need Lights and mudguards but they'll have to wait.

Only problem is do I really want to put my Canyon in the garden shed with the my old MTB as well as the wifes and sons. Seriously considering a Asgard Metal Cycle shed but there over £500 :eek:

Anyway seriously excited!!!
 
Pumaz,

How did you get on with sizing? Did you go for the small frame? I just ordered a Roadlite AL 7.0 today but I'm a little concerned with the sizing. I'm 5'9" with 31" inseam.

Cheers.
 
Well, my other bike is a medium, but the Canyon sizing system makes me a small. Looking at uniQ's and Pumaz's posts above, it seams that a small is correct, but im still nervous about ordering a size down!
 
Vortice said:
Pumaz,

How did you get on with sizing? Did you go for the small frame? I just ordered a Roadlite AL 7.0 today but I'm a little concerned with the sizing. I'm 5'9" with 31" inseam.

Cheers.
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Forgot all about this thread!

Sizing is great, I'm an inch smaller but have the same inseam and Size (S) fits me perfect, very comfortable ride :)

It really is a fantastic bike and I'm pleased as punch with it :)

Now for the bad.....

Canyon Originally sent me a bike without tires etc or being tested. They then arranged to replace the bike with another and give me a £100+ cycle computer by way of an apology. This arrived after allot of messing about with DHL and all was fine or at least that's what I thought!

Unknown to me they accidentally (they said) refunded me £859 of the £908 I paid, first I new of it was a letter demanding £909 within 8 days. I gave them permission to charge my card again for the £859 they refunded but they went and took £909 :(

I'm still a £1 down! as they refunded me £49 instead of £50 yesterday but it's taken me 2 months from ordering to getting a full bike and almost proper payment sorted, I really hope I never have to make a warranty claim :(

Hope you have better luck than me but as good as the bike is I'll stick to LBS in future.

Here she is:
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Pumaz,

Thanks very much for that. You have definately put my mind at rest about the size.

I'm sorry you have had to put up with poor customer service, but despite that, i think you have a fantastic looking bike and the value for money is fantastic!

Do you know if you could fit mudguards?
 
Vortice - always happy to help ;)

Yeah although the bike is 53 (S) it feels just as big as the 54 (M) Triban 7 i tried. The size is perfect don't worry :)

Mudguards - After allot of research I bought the Crud Road Racer MK2's as they're confirmed to fit and get good reviews, Not had reason to use them yet though! Got mine from Tredz for £22
 
That's brilliant. Thanks. I decided I needed a winter bike (any excuse eh!) and then ordered the Canyon without checking if mudguards could be fitted!

Well apparently the bike is in stock so I'm hoping the wait won't be too long. It seems the online sellers like Ribble and Canyon can't be relied on when it comes to customer service as you've already discovered!
 
If it helps my first bike was in stock and it took just under 2 weeks to arrive (only actually took 2 days to get from DHL Germany to me), Hopefully they'll get yours right first time round :)
 
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