Inside Jasper Philipsen’s Winning Ride: The Canyon Aeroad CFR at Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne

Jasper Philipsen sprinted to a powerful win at Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne the day before today, making improvements to on his third-place end at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad the day prior to. 

The light was once beginning to weaken on Sunday afternoon when the Belgian fast-man in spite of everything rolled into the post-race interview zone to talk to the media. All over this time, I spent a couple of mins looking at his motorbike prior to he was once whisked away once more. 

Philipsen raced to the win on his group factor Canyon Aeroad CFR, extensively thought to be to be one of the most best possible highway motorcycles. Canyon has subsidized Alpecin-Deceunick for a number of years now. 

It is a slightly inventory setup, however there are a couple of attention-grabbing main points to be seen. Philipsen, like his teammates, rides the Aeroad CFR with a Dura-Ace groupset, Dura-Ace C50 wheels and Canyon completing equipment. The group switched from Vittoria tyres right through the wintry weather to Pirelli P 0 TLR RS tubeless fashions, and Philipsen received on 30mm tyres at Kuurne. 

The motorbike was once lined in race splatter and was once UCI safety tagged post-race, however had a ‘2’ sticky label subsequent to the Philipsen best tube identify sticky label. Did the Belgian win on his number-two race motorbike? 

Philipsen’s Aeroad was once racked with 2d and 1/3 position finishers Olaf Kooij and Hugo Hofstetter’s machines (Symbol credit score: Tom Wieckowski)

Worn bar tape on the shifter for Philipsen, possibly he likes the worn-in really feel or most popular to not have it modified pre-race (Symbol credit score: Tom Wieckowski)

An in depth fuelling plan for the Belgian, 45 grams of carbs in keeping with hour for the bottles  (Symbol credit score: Tom Wieckowski)

The Canyon Aeroad handlebar is width adjustable  (Symbol credit score: Tom Wieckowski)

Philipsen has the extra competitive Canyon ‘Professional’ CP0049 stem this is 120mm lengthy (Symbol credit score: Tom Wieckowski)

Philipsen raced with the Canyon Through Axle levers put in entrance and rear, possibly to avoid wasting time if a wheel had to be got rid of (Symbol credit score: Tom Wieckowski)

Dura-Ace C50 wheels have received an terrible lot of races  (Symbol credit score: Tom Wieckowski)

Spot the monster backside bracket shell at the Canyon Aeroad CFR  (Symbol credit score: Tom Wieckowski)

Does this ‘2’ imply that is the no.2 race motorbike?  (Symbol credit score: Tom Wieckowski)

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