Mathieu van der Poel’s bike: A {custom} painted, particular version Canyon Aeroad

Mathieu van der Poel loved a stellar yr as world highway race champion in 2024, the highlights of which have to be the solo Tour of Flanders and Paris Roubaix wins, in addition to a world gravel and cyclocross title. 

The Dutchman’s unimaginable achievements could have been in peril of being overshadowed by the peloton’s different superhuman expertise, Tadej Pogacar, at instances. But make no mistake, MVDP is likely one of the finest to ever do it. 

Van der Poel had ridden and raced only one highway race this yr, after he recovered from an intense cyclo cross marketing campaign and as he prepares for the classics. He sprinted to victory at Ename Samyn Classic in the beginning of March. 

The a number of world champion is now racing at Tirreno Adriatico, the Italian stage race, as he appears to be like to sharpen his type forward of his key targets of the yr, the massive spring classics, particularly Paris-Roubaix and the Tour of Flanders. 

Van der Poel has ridden on a Canyon Aeroad in highway races for a few years now. This is our hub documenting a few of the key Canyon fashions he has ridden over time. The Dutchman even signed an uncommon 10-year contract with the German model final yr. 

The star strains up at Tirreno Adriatico, using a custom-painted MyCanyon highway bike alongside a number of of his teammates. MyCanyon is the brand new {custom} bike programme from Canyon, and Van der Poel was exhibiting off the premium Aeroad CFR design, created by Italian artist Elena Salmistraro.

As a rider who competes in highway racing, cyclocross, gravel and mtb, now we have taken a have a look at a few of the fascinating machines Van der Poel has raced on over the previous few years. 

What is Mathieu van der Poel’s bike for 2025?

Van der Poel races on the Canyon Aeroad CFR in each highway race he rides, and the Aeroad CFR mannequin obtained a full replace final yr. We had noticed Van der Poel using the brand new mannequin earlier than its launch at a number of races. 

The new Aeroad CFR boosted aero with just a few revised tube profiles and acquired T25 Torx {hardware} just about throughout the board for single-tool changes. The bike additionally got here with an adjustable Canyon Pace handlebar with two sorts of drop extensions obtainable. At the time, maybe unsurprisingly, Canyon referred to as it ‘the quickest bike within the peloton’.  

The main change to Van der Poel’s bike got here this yr within the type of a brand new tyre sponsor. His Alpecin Deceuninck crew swapped tyre sponsors from Vittoria to Pirelli for the subsequent few years. Van der Poel and the remainder of his teammates will experience on the Pirelli P Zero Race TLR RS tyres.

What dimension is Mathieu van der Poel’s bike

According to the web (we have not measured him ourselves) Van der Poel is 1.84m tall and weighs 75kg. He rides a dimension Large (56cm) Aeroad, which has a attain of 490mm and a stack of 662mm. 

Van der Poel, like most professionals, rides a reasonably aggressive setup with a just about slammed 120mm lengthy handlebar stem and his gear shifters fairly low down on the built-in handlebars, which additionally lend themselves to the aggressive setup. 

He makes use of 172.5mm cranks and turns his Shimano Dura-Ace levers in barely however does not go the entire hog with an excessive setup as is common at present amongst some riders. 

Mathieu van der Poel’s Canyon Aeroad: Specifications

The Alpecin-Deceuninck Canyon Aeroad bikes are a purple/blue color this yr. But after the launch of the brand new MyCanyon {custom} programme, choose Canyon athletes are racing on hand-painted fashions from the vary, which may be ordered on-line. 

Van der Poel is racing on one of many two most costly paint choices which might be a part of the MyCanyon ‘Opus’ assortment. This is identical body, a Canyon Aeroad CFR because the dutch star normally rides, however with one of many hand-painted schemes. We perceive he’ll experience it for at the very least one race this season, however we do not count on him to make use of all of it yr. 

Famed Italian artist Salmistraro is alleged to have used the ‘magic of color’ to create a ‘joyful’ aeroad design. It in some way appears becoming for the early season Italian stage race in the beginning of spring. 

The spec is identical; there are the Dura-Ace wheels and groupset, and the important thing change, as talked about, is the brand new Pirelli P Zero RS tyres. 

Van der Poel can also be using with the Canyon ‘Pro’ base bar, which contains a extra aggressive-than-usual detrimental rise handlebar stem in a 120mm size. We assume this simply helps him drop a headset spacer and get a bit decrease. Teammate Jasper Philipsen makes use of the identical setup. 

History

Van der Poel has been using for his present crew for his total profession, together with his time earlier than becoming a member of the WorldTour when he was racing cyclocross. It picked up Deceuninck as a sponsor in July 2022, having beforehand been referred to as Alpecin-Fenix from the 2020 season. In earlier years, the roster of crew sponsors has modified commonly, however it included Corendon from 2016 racing underneath the Correndon – Circus identify in 2019 when Van der Poel claimed his maiden World Tour win.

The crew has been sponsored by Canyon since 2017, with the Aeroad its principal highway bike.

Mathieu van der Poel’s 2024 TDF Rainbow Canyon Aeroad

After profitable the world highway race championship in Glasgow in 2023, Van der Poel spent 2024 racing within the rainbow stripes of the world champions jersey. 

For the 2024 Tour de France, as befitting the world champion, Canyon offered a custom-painted rainbow Aeroad CFR. Check it out in our full bike test.  

Van der Poel used all the identical componentry, however the bike featured a sort of spray-paint rainbow impact paint scheme on the forks, downtube and seatube. 

Mathieu van der Poel’s 2023 TDF Canyon Aeroad

We snapped Van der Poel’s Canyon Aeroad on the Tour de France in 2023. Where the dutchman was using a vivid white mannequin. 

Alpecin-Deceuninck’s setups have stayed constant for a number of years, and the 2023 Tour bike you see right here was fitted with the acquainted Dura-Ace groupset, wheels and Vittoria Corsa Pro 28mm tyres. 

2023 additionally marked fifty years of Dura-Ace, and the frameset did have a decal to commemorate the particular anniversary down on the seat keep. 

Van der Poel was additionally utilizing the Canyon CP0015 built-in bar and stem in 2023, which was superceded in a while by the CP0018 handlebars. 

Mathieu van der Poel’s 2023 E3 Saxo Classic race bike

Van der Poel raced on the brand new Aeroad on the E3 Saxo Classic in March, he completed second within the race behind a charging Wout Van Aert.

Aside from a change to barely shallower wheels, Van der Poel’s bike setup was just about unchanged from his setup from Milan San Remo, the place he took a powerful win after attacking on the Poggio. 

Mathieu van der Poel’s 2022 Canyon Aeroad coaching bike

We caught up with Mathieu van der Poel at a winter coaching camp in November and managed to have a while together with his coaching bike. 

It had just a few fascinating factors that differed barely from his coaching bike together with an Ultegra cassette we predict to probably steadiness prices. He was additionally operating Inner tubes for coaching with the mechanics citing much less problem in addition to shallower Dura Ace C36 wheels. 

Mathieu van der Poel’s 2022 Gravel Worlds Canyon Ultimate CFR

The inaugural UCI Gravel World Championships occurred in late 2022 and quite a few World Tour stars lined as much as compete. Mathieu van der Poel competed, using to a third-place end. 

There was a lot hypothesis pre-race about whether or not the highway riders particularly would use highway bikes with gravel tyres (doable now clearances are sufficiently big) or barely extra relaxed gravel bikes. 

Van der Poel opted to make use of a sooner highway bike with gravel tyres fitted. Choosing the semi-aero Canyon Ultimate CFR fitted together with his common highway gear and Vittoria gravel tyres. 

Mathieu van der Poel’s 2022 Pink Canyon Speedmax

Mathieu van der Poel lined up for the second stage time trial of the 2022 Giro d’Italia with a motorcycle to match the Maglia Rosa pink leaders jersey he claimed on stage one. 

The specifically painted bike was a barely completely different shade to the race leaders jersey itself making for an fascinating distinction. The majority of the remainder of the elements being black additionally ensured the bike stood out. 

An analogous gear bundle seemed to be in place for the Dutchman to defend the race lead after a scramble for sooner gear to defend his lead early on within the 2021 Tour de France.

Mathieu van der Poel’s 2021 TDF yellow Canyon Aeroad

The 2021 Tour de France included a primary stint in yellow for van der Poel and his crew duly rolled out a yellow Canyon Aeroad. The bike additionally featured a message in honour of his well-known grandfather, the late Raymond Poulidor, who was the everlasting second within the Sixties and 70s. Van der Poel took a spectacular and emotional stage win which noticed him level to the sky in reminiscence of his grandfather. 

Mathieu van der Poel’s 2021 Canyon Inflite cyclocross bike

Van der Poel bagged his fourth cyclocross world championship in 2021 aboard the Canyon Inflite SLX mannequin that he’d been using since Canyon took over as crew sponsor in 2017. 

The bike has a kinked high tube to make shouldering simpler and van der Poel continued to make use of the traditional cyclocross 46/36t double chainset together with FMB tubular cyclocross tyres. In 2023, we noticed him aboard a brand new Inflite. The kinked high tube stays, however the cable routing has gone inside.

Mathieu van der Poel’s 2019 Canyon Aeroad

In the 2019 season, van der Poel was on the earlier era Canyon Aeroad together with the last-generation 11-speed Shimano 9150 Dura-Ace groupset and tubular wheelset. Tyres, saddle and bottle cages had been from the present sponsors Selle Italia then ranges.

This model of the bike fascinating additionally featured a seatpost clamp bolt on the highest tube and exterior cable routing.