After a win two days ago, Mathieu Van der Poel stuck close to today’s Stage 4 winner Tadej Pogačar to hold tight to his yellow jersey, and with it his custom-painted MyCanyon Aeroad CFR aero road bike for at least another day. The Canyon-sponsored Alpecin-Deceuninck team netted wins on both the first and second days of this year’s Tour de France, giving Canyon the quick task of building up custom-painted bikes out of their MyCanyon custom paint program for the leader jersey wearers.
Those wins meant:
- With a Stage 1 win, Jasper Philipsen needed a custom yellow Canyon on day two as the general classification leader.
- Then, after his Stage 2 win, Van der Poel needed his own yellow bike for day three.
- Kicking his teammate down to lead the sprinters’ classification, Philipsen needed a green bike for day three, too. But an unfortunate crash on the day in green ended his ride at this year’s Tour.
Now after second place in the Stage 4 finish, Van der Poel holds onto his shiny yellow bike by a thread.
MyCanyon custom TdF yellow Canyon Aeroad CFR for Van der Poel
Mathieu Van der Poel’s yellow jersey custom Canyon Aeroad CFR is straight out of the recent MyCanyon custom paint workshop. The bike is finished with a hand-stamped Mano technique in a design called Carina out of the semi-custom program.
Although in the MyCanyon offering you get a deep red finish. So it seems you need to win at the Tour de France to get one in yellow or green. We’ll see if we see a white or polka dotted version by the end of the Tour?
MyCanyon debuted this past winter, initially only in the USA. But now it is slated to become available for the rest of the world this summer. We’ll update you when we know more!
Both riders shared pretty much identical setups with a full Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 traditional 2x road groupset, tubeless Dura-Ace C60 carbon wheels, yellow-label 30mm wide Pirelli P Zero Race TLR RS tires, Selle Italia Flite saddles, and Canyon’s width-adjustable aero cockpit.
Jasper Philipsen did a yellow MyCanyon Aeroad CFR first
He only rode it for one day, but Jasper Philipsen did get the first custom yellow MyCanyon Aeroad CFR race bike.
Jasper Philipsen also had a green MyCanyon Aeroad CFR, too
Again, it was just for one day, but Jasper Philipsen also got to ride a Tour de France stage on a custom green MyCanyon Aeroad CFR road bike, too. Unfortunately, he crashed out on Stage 3 and had to abandon the Tour. (Here’s hoping for a speedy recovery!) But in his brief three days at the race, he won the first day, raced in yellow the second day, and raced the third day in green. A pretty eventful long weekend for the Belgian, and he came away with some interesting souvenirs!
