Wilde Ride

Hayden Wilde has joined long distance stars Chelsea Sodaro, Florian Angert, Kat Matthews and Sam Laidlow on Canyon Bicycles’ triathlon roster

Hayden Wilde’s impressive triathlon palmarès, oodles of untapped marketing potential and those world renowned bike handling skills meant the Kiwi No.1 was never going to struggle to find a replacement ride at the end of his happy relationship with Specialized.

Canyon Bicycles’ quickly swooped which will see the reigning Super League champion and WTCS No.3 ride a specially-branded version of the German giant’s Aeroad CFR Disc eTap road bike to the 2024 Paris Olympic Games and beyond. The Belgian-based Whakatane 25-year-old has also been equipped with a tri-specific Speedmax CFR Disc LTD for middle distance races on the horizon.

“I’m stoked to be joining Canyon,” said Wilde. “It’s an incredible privilege to have such a range of highperformance bikes available. It gives me the freedom to develop my racing programme and set some challenges for the year ahead.”

Both Wilde and Markus Fachbach, Canyon’s road and triathlon brand manager, hinted at a special project in the works for one of the “most exciting and intriguing competitors in triathlon.”

“Hayden will be working with us to help him reach the very pinnacle of the sport. By linking him with our highly experienced R&D team, we will continue to innovate and develop cutting-edge products in support of the best performance athletes in the world,” Fachbach said.

“We’ve already got some things in the pipeline,” Wilde continued. “I’m looking forward to seeing these projects come together later this year.”

Wilde’s first race with Canyon will be on the Aeroad CFR, with special white decals on the “stealth” coloured frame rather than the factory standard black on black, at the WTCS season-opener in Abu Dhabi on March 3.

Wilde’s Canyon Aeroad CFR Disc eTap

Weight 7.37kg Frame Canyon Factory Racing R065 aero carbon Folk Canyon FK0060 CF Disc Cockpit CP0015130mm Seatpost SP0046 Saddle Ergon Drivetrain SRAM

RED eTap AXS Road Gear Ratio 1x12 Aero 50 / SRAM

10-28 Ceramicspeed bottom bracket Wheels Zipp 303

Firecast Tubeless Tyres Schwalbe Pro One 25/28mm

Brakes SRAM Red eTap (160/140mm front/rear rotor)

Price *NZ$15,099 (*factory standard)

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Wheels

DT Swiss ARC 1100

Dicut wheels come as factory standard but as a Zipp athlete Wilde is running Zipp 303 Firecast Tubeless wheels with Schwalbe Pro One tyres

Seatpost/Saddle

A unique doublechamber seatpost design and Ergon saddle increases comfort. A new sleeve bearing on the aerooptimised carbon seatpost reduces friction and repels dirt

Frame

Shaped by extensive computational fluid dynamics analysis and validated by wind tunnel testing, the Canyon Factory Racing R065 aero carbon frame tips the scale at 915g

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Headset

Reinforced carbon walls add stiffness to Canyon’s latest gen, aerodynamically optimised, UCI World Tour-level ‘cockpits’. Complete cable and wire integration reduces drag and produces superclean optics

Speedmax CFR Disc LTD

Wilde’s tri-specific Speedmax CFR Disc LTD differs from Canyon’s factory standard by featuring SRAM Red eTap AXS drivetrain components and Zipp Super 9/ 454nsw Tubeless wheels with Schwalbe Pro One 28mm tyres.

Crank

Seamlessly integrated within the crank, a SRAM Red AXS Powermetre measures real time training and racing efforts