MyCanyon Opus Collection - Elena Salmistraro
Imagining a bike in motion, speeding towards the sun, light dancing on its surfaces, Elena used a kaleidoscopic color concept in her design, making a perfect combination of modernity and fun ideal for attracting attention
MyCanyon Opus Collection - Felipe Pantone
Inspired by the interplay of speed and technology, Felipe’s design represents organized chaos with some unexpected twists and turns as the bike moves. It’s modern speed, just like the Aeroad CFR.
MyCanyon Fabrio Collection - Gold Dust
A stunning golden yellow finish couples with striking mirrored decals. It’s a bike that radiates energy, and is as special as gold dust itself.
MyCanyon Mano Collection - Carina Red
Home to many massive stars, including several that are 100 times bigger than the sun, Carina glows bright and bold. Painted using a hand-stamping process, this frame has a deep and fiery red color that looks three-dimensional under the surface.
That is my guess: there is currently no way to “buy” colorways in the drop shop, and instead of actually… doing it the right way, they’ve taken the lazy programming way out.
The fallout this produces:
Buyable kits using drops: not going to happen because they’re avoiding programming this correctly.
Buyable anything else that isn’t a wheel or bike… See above…
Prior to there being bike upgrades, maybe this would have been acceptable.
Now?
Absolutely not, this was lazy and we all know it was lazy, and this is putting off buyable other items even longer when they should’ve just gone ahead and worked on this side of the software so they can chuck in other items.
Now what happens if they change or tweak a bike setting; and one of these bikes is slower than the others?
Who remembers a few years back when all of the bikes were slower because they had a different component? (Was it one of the Shimano sets? I forget, but I know it happened).
Seeing as how 2 are Shimano and 2 are SRAM, this means this error can happen again and alter the performance of these bikes despite them… being the same thing.
I think everyone on Zwift will agree and realize that this is not the feature anyone wanted let alone asked for.
Please take this back to the drawing board and introduce other items into the drop shop like has been requested forever.
It opens the doors to so many further featuresets down the road; this… this does not, this will only attract the 1% of the 1%, and probably not even that when people realize their upgrades are not shared between bikes.
The community wants this. We do not want how it was implemented.
They know what we want, it’s easy to see from the forum requests, the “new’ Canyon bikes aren’t on the list, but my guess is Canyon is paying Zwift for them, since the Robo Pacers are broadcasting all about them
My assumption will be “one and done” for the vast majority of users that wanted it in the first place.
For collectionists/completionists we’ll do it either way, but personally I don’t think that ‘fits’ the statistic as it were.
The one and done will be what happens when they realize it’s a unique bike and requires upgrading all over again.
Could this have been done as a “Special Edition” single frame with multiple choice colorways? YES! yes it could have, and I don’t think we would’ve complained anywhere near as much.
Could they go back and set it as you buy one you get all colorways but it’s just one bike you have to upgrade and not make the world turn over? Perhaps.
But I still think they’re going about this the wrong way.
We want buyable jerseys, buyable sunglasses, buyable helmets… buyable tires perhaps! You name it, again, had this feature been implemented ‘correctly’, and that door of possibility opened up to have all kinds of items in the drop shop (which as an umpteenth reminder, is what the actual user-end-request is).
To put this into hopefully someone’s head at ZHQ about why this matters:
You could make a gold jersey/kit in the drop shop and sell it for 100 million drops. You bet your someone will go out of their way to get 100m drops and buy it to show it off.
This also could’ve allowed for less-expensive equipment prices. I imagine the crazy high drop prices on bikes and wheels now were chosen to soak up drops from all the whales out there which leaves newer riders in a bind. The ten million for a halo is 100 90-minute sessions with a pace partner, but nothing to worry about for anyone who’s been riding consistently for a few years. More than ten one-hour rides with a bot to afford the new Enve 4.5s, and that’s separate from upgrades being a drop-sink for everything earned in that time. If someone isn’t mostly riding with bots it’s going to be a whole lot more time than that.
But if there were hats and jerseys and bike skins to drop a million drops on the frame and wheel prices could be affordable (but still something to work towards) for newer riders while also giving a place to dump drops for longer-tenured Zwifters.
someone will go out of their way to get 100m drops and buy it to show it off.
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