Canyon Heads Down Under with New Distribution to Australia & New Zealand

Please come to the USA!

I am happy for them but I really want them to come to the USA. I have half a mind to buy a bike from them when I go on vacation to Europe this summer.

@Dave – I rode a friend’s bike when I was last in Portugal and I have to say I was really impressed by his Canyon. The price also really helps but it was the best bike I rode in a long time.

One of the biggest concerns is that with so many bike brands going consumer direct the smaller shops are going to have a more and more difficult time surviving. The big shops that do Trek, Specialized, Giant will be ok. But the smaller shops that I know that do a lot of things that the standardized / homogenized bigger shops cannot do because in many cases they do not have the expertise will be the most effected.

The smaller shops cannot survive on just great service alone. They need the sale of some bigger ticket items to survive.

Why does this bike have Cadel Evans on it? Is he an ambassador for Canyon now?

seems like the USA is the next place to go consumer direct. what other current USA brands will follow suit in the appeal of higher margins and cutting out the middle man, aka, your local bike shop? seems like only a matter of time right now. how can bike shops survive in the 20th century with these new consumer direct models?

It’s natural for people to want something unique. I remember how much I used to want a Ridley bike or a Catlike helmet before they got distribution in the US.

Cadel Evans makes sense because they’re marketing to marketing to the Antipodes and there’s a long history of him riding Canyon with Lotto and when he won the rainbow jersey.

I love my Spectral 29..

I love how people pretend to know why Americans want Canyons, and that it’s for no good reason.

What they really mean but don’t say is “I own or work at a bike shop and we don’t sell Canyon”.

I have a feeling they will do very well in the market here, which already has little, if any, issues ordering online. In fact, it’s estimated that around 50% of bike related sales are online (via places such as CRC and Wiggle).

It was the bike Cadel rode in the 2009 TDF

I don’t get the love either. They do look cool but tons of bikes do. At the top level, mostly all brands make really spectacular bikes now. Some will fit you better than others but is that a Canyon? Could be…but maybe not and we’re talking a CM stem adjustment for most people if not but that’s not a biggie either. Unless their TT bike and aero road bikes are much more aero than everything else and their cobble bike is that much smoother than everything else, and their weight weenie bike is that much lighter than every other available bike, it really makes no sense. If they were all made in-house by a few craftsman, I’d change my tune but otherwise, there’s plenty available to us here in the US.

Wow, people freak out about buying a bike direct online. I can buy any car direct online, why not a simple bicycle. The model is clear, all manufacturers will head this way but when….

Canyon doesn’t have an IBD presence in the USA, only makes sense to go consumer direct, then if IBDs want to carry them, BONUS!

Brands like Giant, Specialized, Cannondale etc, would be burned at the stake in the social platform for doing so, but fiscally and technically it makes perfect sense.

The IBD has to change or it will be destroyed by direct to consumer and mobile service. End of Story, thanks for stopping by.

If the are not here in the US by 2017, my vacation to Europe will have a big box to declare on my flight home.

@imnotspecialized

False.

Canyon routinely beats other top tier brands in the German bicycle magazine Tour’s tests. Being German, you can imagine they’re highly quantifiable and data-driven exams of each bike’s attributes. I know this doesn’t always equate exactly to on-the-road performance but it’s fair to say that Canyon produces top tier bikes that crush the other brands on price. As noted above, there are many trade offs for that price advantage. But price for performance/spec is one of the big reasons people are looking for Canyon to enter the U.S. And when they do, it will turn the entire industry on its head – for better or worse. That’s why they are taking their time in doing so. The U.S. market is the big enchilada and they have learned from past mistakes with qc issues and supply problems. My guess is NZ and OZ will make a great dry run for the U.S. Market. The other brands will have to “innovate or die.”