Bike Tech Special: The GCN Christmas Show | The GCN Show Ep. 206

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It's the GCN Show! This week: new disc brake road bike tech, a new 'cross bike spotted and colour-changing bike paint!

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In this week's Christmas tech special, we have new disc brake bikes from Canyon, a new Trek cyclocross bike spotted at the weekend, possibly the best GCN viewer hack ever and colour changing paint. Let us know your thoughts on all the tech down in the comments.

We're particularly excited about the potential of the Canyon Aeroad disc, which apparently has *just* an extra 0.8 watts of drag. It'll be very interesting to see which of their pro cycling teams – Katusha and Movistar use this bike next year.

In racing news, we hear BMC Racing's Richie Porte's thoughts on the 2017 Tour de France route, the latest from the cyclocross world cup and some really excellent news on Lotto-Soudal's Stig Broeckx. We wish Stig all the best for his continued recovery. Finally for road bike racing news, team TJ Sports will now be known as UAE Abu Dhabi.

That's it! We hope that you have a great Christmas/Holiday/New Year!

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