Rose Xeon RS-3000 vs Canyon Ultimate 9.0 DI2 LTD

addictedtocarbon

Hi, so within the next 2-3 months i'm going to buy one of the two. Both are great specced bikes for the money but the bikes are hard to choose from! The Canyon has ultegra ui2 and has krysium equipe wheels and i have never tried electric shifting, so i do not know if there is a huge difference, although the overall weight l is higher. The rose does not have electronic shifting but has better equipment apart from groupset. Also i won't have to fork out more money as the mavic cosmic carbone sl wheelset comes into the spec (plus £100 cheaper than the Canyon) The rose also has ultegra.
http://konfigurator.rose.de/configurato ... er=1809471

http://www.canyon.com/_uk/roadbikes/bike.html?b=2595

Thanks

NGMTB

Hi, i have the canyon, as you would expect me to say " its great"
The electronic gears are truely amazing, uphill, stood on the pedals, touch the button, gear changed, very quick gear change.
The whole world will be riding withn electronic gears soon. I choose the canyon as the frame is made for the electric cables, if i went for normal gears and went to upgrade i would have cable lugs sticking out everywhere.
There is a review somewhere on this site too!

cougie

NGMTB wrote:

The whole world will be riding withn electronic gears soon.

Cancellara won't - he doesn't like them !

ShutUpLegs

cougie wrote:

NGMTB wrote:

The whole world will be riding withn electronic gears soon.

Cancellara won't - he doesn't like them !

Its just so fugly

theescapedslave

hi there. I am having a similar dilemma after coming ridiculously close to pulling the trigger on a canyon ultimate al 9.0 di2, then seeing the canyon ultimate cf with ultegra available at about the same price (~£1600) on the current canyon sale...my gut still tells me to go for the al with higher spec, but i am a little suss of the electronic shifting and thinking the cf frame might be a nicer ride than the al.

Thoughts, or experiences comparing between the frames would be great. Cheers

Also and I am pretty certain I would go for a 56cm frame (54.9cm top tube), but any one else fit a canyon with similar dimension of 177cm tall with 85cm in-seam??

verylonglegs

OP I think ultimately if you are undecided about electronic shifting you need to test ride a bike with it, any bike.

stueys

theescapedslave wrote:

hi there. I am having a similar dilemma after coming ridiculously close to pulling the trigger on a canyon ultimate al 9.0 di2, then seeing the canyon ultimate cf with ultegra available at about the same price (~£1600) on the current canyon sale...my gut still tells me to go for the al with higher spec, but i am a little suss of the electronic shifting and thinking the cf frame might be a nicer ride than the al.

Thoughts, or experiences comparing between the frames would be great. Cheers

Also and I am pretty certain I would go for a 56cm frame (54.9cm top tube), but any one else fit a canyon with similar dimension of 177cm tall with 85cm in-seam??

This is a pretty personal view but I'm waiting on next generation electronic shifting. Think it's the future but equally I would be wary of buying first gen technology when it doesn't bring any game changing capability. Let the reliability get proven first,I wouldn't fancy a failure half way through next years Etape!

On that basis I would buy the lighter/stiffer CF frame...all IMHO

theescapedslave

Stueys wrote:

This is a pretty personal view but I'm waiting on next generation electronic shifting. Think it's the future but equally I would be wary of buying first gen technology when it doesn't bring any game changing capability. Let the reliability get proven first,I wouldn't fancy a failure half way through next years Etape!

On that basis I would buy the lighter/stiffer CF frame...all IMHO

cheers..im tending to move in that direction or for a few bucks less...~£1400 i could go the ultimate al with sram force groupset and better wheels in elites over equipes...too many options...my heads gonna blow a gasket soon...add to that the inability to try before i buy for size/feel...argghhh...am now thinking a small (53cm) might be a better option than a M (56)....at least they have 30 day returns policy i suppose...

ShutUpLegs

theescapedslave wrote:

Stueys wrote:

This is a pretty personal view but I'm waiting on next generation electronic shifting. Think it's the future but equally I would be wary of buying first gen technology when it doesn't bring any game changing capability. Let the reliability get proven first,I wouldn't fancy a failure half way through next years Etape!

On that basis I would buy the lighter/stiffer CF frame...all IMHO

cheers..im tending to move in that direction or for a few bucks less...~£1400 i could go the ultimate al with sram force groupset and better wheels in elites over equipes...too many options...my heads gonna blow a gasket soon...add to that the inability to try before i buy for size/feel...argghhh...am now thinking a small (53cm) might be a better option than a M (56)....at least they have 30 day returns policy i suppose...

That SRAM force/ elite Ultimate AL would be a fantastic ride.