A pro since he was 20, the now 28 year-old Rein Taaramäe is a multiple road and time trial champion of his home country – Estonia. Much of Taaramäe’s professional cycling career was spent riding for Confidis, and in that time he collected plenty of victories and podiums, but perhaps none bigger than his 2011 stage win at the Vuelta a España.
Riding for Astana in 2015, Taaramäe won both the Arctic Race of Norway and Vuelta a Burgos. Switching things up for 2016, the Estonian rider joins the Russian outfit Katusha – which recently avoided a ban despite two riders testing positive for prohibited substances over a 12-month period – on a one-year contract.
Much as Taaramäe is new to the Canyon-sponsored team in red, so is American component-powerhouse SRAM. Last year, Ag2R was the only WorldTour team on SRAM components, and now Katusha makes that two.
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For the 2015 season, we speculated that SRAM had taken some time out of its previously intensive sponsorships while it perfected its eTap wireless shifting group. The company strongly disputed such claims at the time, but it seems there may have been some truth to our conjecture after all.
The house of SRAM also includes the global brands of Zipp and Quarq, and such a sponsorship sees these components supplied too. This covers power meters and wheelsets only, and the American sponsorship doesn’t extend to cockpit components. That’s an area Canyon not only takes care of, but is actively expanding in.
Aero + road = Aeroad
Ready for flight, Canyon at the cockpit
Wires at the brakes only
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- Frame: Canyon Aeroad CF SLX, size large
- Fork: Canyon Aeroblade SLX
- Headset: Acros, Canyon
- Stem: Canyon V13, 120mm x -6 degree, 1 1/4in steerer
- Handlebar: Canyon H32 Ergo CF, 42cm width
- Tape: Selle Italia Smootape Gran Fondo
- Front brake: Shimano Dura-Ace 9010
- Rear brake: Shimano Dura-Ace 9010
- Brake levers: SRAM eTap
- Front derailleur: SRAM eTap wireless
- Rear derailleur: SRAM eTap wireless
- Shift levers: SRAM eTap wireless
- Cassette: SRAM X-Glide 1190, 11-28T
- Chain: SRAM RED 22
- Crankset: SRAM eTap Quarq power meter, GXP, 175mm, 53/39T
- Bottom bracket: SRAM GXP pressfit
- Pedals: Look Keo Blade 2 CroMo
- Wheelset: Zipp 404 Firecrest tubular
- Front tyre: Continental Competition, 25mm
- Rear tyre: Continental Competition, 25mm
- Saddle: Selle Italia SLR ‘Team Edition’ Carbonio
- Seatpost: Canyon S27 Aero VCLS CF
- Bottle cages: Elite Custom Race (2)
- Computer: Garmin Edge 520 (not pictured)
- Rider's height: 1.84m (6ft)
- Rider's weight: 67kg (148lb)
- Saddle height from BB, c-t: 780mm
- Seat tube length, c-t: 551mm
- Saddle setback: 84mm
- Tip of saddle to centre of bar: 610mm
- Saddle-to-bar drop: 100mm
- Head tube length: 167mm
- Top tube length (effective): 572mm
- Total bicycle weight: 7.28kg (16.05lb) (computer not included)
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