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Right then..
Said I'd be back 226 KM in to the journey, been mostly riding to and from work with some odd longer runs out.
Firstly (mostly) great service from Canyon, bike arrived nicely packed and easy to put together but they were lacking instructions for the freaky bar setup!! Thankfully it all just plugged together with a fairly big crowd from work wanting to know how this thing worked!!
Lots of flat riding from home to the office, knocking the times down day by day and it handles the rough really well, stil playing with pressures in the G-Ones at the moment as there are some sharp edges on bridges around here. Need to get the tubeless kit sorted and play with that.
To the main thing though, the bar...on the tops it's nice when my arms sort out the new position it's good, takes a bunch of buzz out there, on the hoods it's a nice position with some of the smoothing out. Drops - not really my thing - I'm more of a sit up rider but I need to adjust the brakes a little to reach them a bit easier. Hit the low position a few times and it works, my hands just kind of fit around the lower strut.
Just added an Alpkit 13l Dual https://www.alpkit.com/products/airlok-xtra-dual-13-litre nice addition and fits between the hoods, need to wrap the lower bar for straps, if it's full it gets in the way of the Garmin mount (which is specific to the bar) so I might need to look at at a few other options.
So in summary, fun, fast and nice on the rough stuff