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TRANSPORT OF YOUR
CANYON BIKE
TAKING YOUR CANYON BY CAR
There are several ways of transporting your Canyon
by car. Canyon recommends putting the bike into the
boot to take it with you.
Bikes do take away a lot of space inside a boot, but
they are also better protected against dirt, theft and
damage.
Take, however, care that the cables, lights and
wires and in particular the gears do not get dam-
aged. Protect the bike with padding material such
as blankets or the like. This is also a good idea,
when your bike is heavily soiled, so that the dirt
does not wipe off on the seat upholstery.
Make sure to secure your bike.
If transporting the bicycle inside the boot is impos-
sible, nearly every car accessory dealer and car
company offers carrier systems which allow bicycle
transport without disassembly. The usual design
involves rails fixed to the roof of the car onto which
the bicycles are fixed with clamps gripping the down
tubes.
TRANSPORT
!
Secure your Canyon when transporting it
inside a car. In the event of an accident
unsecured loads inside a car may be an additional
risk for the occupants. Often you will find it nec-
essary to dismount one or even both wheels to
load the bike into the car. Be sure to read chapter
“The wheels”
, notably section
“Repairing punc-
tures”
, before removing a wheel.
Do not use a bike carrier system on which
the bike has to be mounted upside down,
i.e. with handlebars and saddle fixed face down
to the rack. This way of fastening the bike sub-
jects the handlebars, stem, saddle and seat post
to extreme stress during transport and can lead
to failure of these parts! Do not buy a bike carrier
system where the front wheel has to be removed
and your Canyon is secured by the fork.
!
Transporting Canyon road bikes on con-
ventional bike carriers with clamps is not
permitted. Most clamps are potential sources of
damage to large-diameter frame tubes! Carbon
frames are particularly susceptible to being dam-
aged irreparably. Unvisible damage occurring on
this occasion may lead to severe crashes.
!
In the event your Canyon has not been
packed for dispatch according to the en-
closed packing instructions, you have no right to
claim repair of possibly occurring transport dam-
age from Canyon Bicycles GmbH.
!
Pull the brake lever and secure it with a
strong rubber band, when transporting a
cyclocross bike.
Transport by car
!
If you have disc brakes, be sure to mount
the safety locks before transporting your
cyclocross bike with the wheels dismounted.
Take hold of the handlebars at the brake levers
and try to turn them relative to the front wheel. Try
twisting the handlebars relative to the front wheel.
If there is play in handlebars or stem, release the
bolts, realign the component and tighten the stem
clamping bolts to the recommended torques.
If there is still play in handlebars or stem even with
the maximum permitted torque, please dismount
the clamping, degrease it, apply a new layer of car-
bon assembly paste and reassemble.
Try twisting the handlebars relative to front wheel and stem
Apply some carbon assembly paste on fork tube or handlebars, if
necessary
Check the secure seat of stem and handle-
bars after you have adjusted the bearing!
A loose handlebar or stem may throw you off your
bike!
HEADSET
