The Glasgow UCI World Championships this 12 months marks the primary time championships for all biking disciplines have taken place on the similar time, in a mixed ‘mega championships.’
The championships will little question see Glasgow and numerous components of Scotland get pleasure from a pageant of biking and Canyon has determined to become involved, celebrating Scotland’s wealthy heritage with a sequence of restricted version tartan-themed paint schemes for chosen athletes as they do battle alongside their respective race routes for a coveted rainbow jersey.
It could seem to have ended the decades-long seek for tartan paint, however the lengthy weight, sky hooks and skirting board ladders stay at massive.
Tartan itself, outlined by the Oxford dictionary as “a sample of squares and features of various colors and widths that cross one another at an angle of 90 levels, used particularly on fabric, and initially from Scotland,” carries a powerful cultural significance within the nation, and stretches again a number of hundred years.
We perceive it is also pretty tough to make the sample match and look good round a curved tube on a motorbike body.
Canyon actually has a historical past of untamed paint jobs in relation to huge occasions. As just lately because the Tour de France Femmes, it equipped Kasia Nieuwiadoma with a polka-dotted Final CFr, and going again to the Tokyo Olympics it was Anime for Annemiek (Van Vleuten) that stole the present.
One customized Canyon paint job that’s not forgotten simply is the (prepare) Humuhumunukunukuapua’a fish-inspired Speedmax that was launched on the Ironman World Championships in Kona late final 12 months. The most recent tartan bikes look simply as putting but it surely appears Scotland lacks a long-named nationwide fish to call them after.
The customized bikes function the tartan patterns in numerous colors and designs in addition to the names of the riders, and we perceive every mannequin will likely be ridden by at the least one rider in a spread of disciplines.
On the highway aspect of issues, anticipate to see Mathieu van der Poel and Jasper Philipsen using customized bikes within the males’s race, and within the girls’s peloton Chloe Dygert, and Annemiek van Vleuten amongst others.
Varied mountain bike riders will likely be on customized bikes additionally, specifically Australian downhill favorite Troy Brosnan, whose body options beneath.
Mathieu van der Poel may even be racing within the highway and MTB XC disciplines on the world championships and as such would be the solely rider with a customized tartan bike in two totally different disciplines, racing the Lux CFR mountain bike and almost certainly the Aeroad highway bike for the boys’s highway race.
Hearsay has it that Canyon may even be launching a brand new Speedmax CFR monitor bike across the occasion. We anticipate this body will function the identical tartan detailing, however we haven’t any extra particulars at present.
We do not know whether or not any of the designs will change into publicly out there, however hold your eyes peeled in case you fancy a wee tartan great thing about your individual.