Bike for the home mechanic

cykelsvensson

I currently ride on a Canyon Ultimate CF SL 9.0 and, since I have a pretty good workshop at home, I often like to try and fix all the problems at home. It has often struck me how difficult the Canyon is to work on with all of its special parts that you have to order from all around the world for huge amounts of money. When I finally get it home it often requires special tools as well...
Now I am looking for a new bike and wondering if there are any brands that are famous for using parts that are easy to work on? After some reading I have at least come to the conclusion that canyon may not be the easiest...

ugo.santalucia

NOT specialized.

Is Genesis something that floats your boat, or you need light/aero and possibly black?

smoggysteve

Um alan keys, screwdrivers, bb removal tool, cable cutters, bearing press, chain whip, cassette tool, cone spanners, few open jaw spanners, pliers,

Not sure I can think of any 'Canyon only special tools' amongst that lot and I have worked on a few with just that kit.

A bike is usually just a company's frame with other company's stuff bolted on. Same stuff you find on pretty much all bikes

fat daddy

ugo.santalucia wrote:

NOT specialized.

really ? .. I have a Spesh Tricross and s-works Roubaix ... both been fully taken apart and rebuilt ... whats the issues ? .... or is it there new stuff because both happily run off the shelf Shimano/SRAM/Tectro/Avid/Kenisis/Stronglight/BB30/UN54/etc etc etc fine ?

admittedly both are 2008 bikes ... perhaps it takes 10 years for specialized craziness to become industry standard ?

imposter2.0

ugo.santalucia wrote:

NOT specialized.

Can't think why not? Apart from a stupid BB standard (and which manufacturer does not have its own stupid BB standard these days?) I don't think there are any other proprietary components?

ugo.santalucia

Imposter wrote:

ugo.santalucia wrote:

NOT specialized.

Can't think why not? Apart from a stupid BB standard (and which manufacturer does not have its own stupid BB standard these days?) I don't think there are any other proprietary components?

How about the unique size of their hub in the disc versions?

imposter2.0

ugo.santalucia wrote:

Imposter wrote:

ugo.santalucia wrote:

NOT specialized.

Can't think why not? Apart from a stupid BB standard (and which manufacturer does not have its own stupid BB standard these days?) I don't think there are any other proprietary components?

How about the unique size of their hub in the disc versions?

Does it require a special tool? (I don't know, hence the question)

smoggysteve

Canyon nor any other bike brand I know of (that make mainstream road bikes) have unique bespoke tools required for maintenance. Especially in the case of a company like Canyon who sell only online so there are no shops stocking anything they make. Add to that Canyon actually give you a little tool set with the bike (or at leat they used to) so anything that would be quite important would be supplied with the bike one would think.

cykelsvensson

The only tool I got was a torque wrench with allen key bits. The most annoying part is the Acros headset which I have had to replace twice in three years, and it is expensive. Cant quite get my head around how it works either. What I am after is a bike that is easy to fix. To clarify, no aero spokes, integrated bottom bracket, special headset or other "Special" stuff. If I can find all of the parts in my closest bike shop, then I'm happy.

smoggysteve

Why not buy a frameset and build it up yourself