Van Der Poel breaks his hanger on the Samyn, Canyon reacts

The German manufacturer who equips the training of Mathieu Van Der Poel, as well as the Arkea Samsic team, responded quickly to the incident on the Samyn on Tuesday. Indeed, Mathieu Van Der Poel, yet very comfortable in the end, could not contest for victory. And for good reason, its hanger broke under the effect of repeated passages on the paved sections of the course. So he put himself at the service of Tim Merlier, who took over perfectly by going for victory in the sprint. This extremely rare incident nevertheless raised questions, and not only from the public side. Because if all turned out well for the quadruple cyclocross world champion, Canyon has taken this matter very seriously by opening an investigation to determine the cause of the incident.. If it seemed at first sight probable that excessive tightening may have been the cause of the incident, the brand does not want to take any risk, and therefore asked all owners of the latest version of Aeroad CF SLX and CFR equipped with handlebars CP00018 and CP00015 to temporarily suspend their use, until the trace of a possible manufacturing defect can be ruled out.