Mathieu van der Poel ignores the new Canyon Endurace designed for Paris-Roubaix, starts the race with the Aeroad aero bike instead

Three-time men’s Paris-Roubaix champion, Mathieu van der Poel, has decided to race Paris-Roubaix today on his normal Canyon Aeroad CFR race bike, the machine that he has raced and won on for the last several years, ignoring the new Roubaix-specific bike that Canyon unveiled this week.

The German brand launched an updated version of its Endurace CFR endurance model this week, claiming the bike had been designed with the single purpose of ‘getting to Roubaix fastest’.