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The sports tech pickings were slim at Eurobike this year, but one device stood out as the most interesting bit of sports technology: Canyon\u2019s Predict smart bike concept. Even in years past, it still would have likely been at the top of the \u2018interesting things\u2019 stack, due to the heavy slate of technology it packs inside.<\/p>\n
Still, I wanted to dive into all of the details, and walk through what\u2019s real today, and what\u2019s still a bit\u2026futuristic. To my surprise, as you\u2019ll see, the vast majority of the hardware is functional today \u2013 at least in a convention floor setting. But of course, what matters here is how it works out on the road. And a big part of that is the software.<\/p>\n
After all, this is not Canyon\u2019s first attempt at a smart bike. Some 11 years ago at Eurobike 2015 they announced a smart bike concept<\/a> that also had a built-in bike computer, along with other sensors. It was promised to ship the following Spring 2016. It never did. Like most concept bikes tech promoted by larger bike brands, it quickly fell by the wayside.<\/p>\n Canyon says they\u2019re hoping this might be out in 2-3 years, but will heavily depend on testing, and specifically they say whether consumers can trust the tech actually works out on the road. With that, let\u2019s dive into it.<\/p>\n [Note: Canyon has been listed as a partner for DC Rainmaker<\/a> for a few years, whereby they provide loaner bikes I can use to test other sports tech items on. No money exchanges hands. They didn\u2019t ask me to write this post or video, I just thought it was cool sports tech. I\u2019ll cover the pros and cons down below, like anything else I talk about.]<\/p>\n The Core Specs:<\/p>\n The Canyon Predict smart bike concept is currently in a road-bike form factor. It\u2019s notable that Canyon also announced a commuter-style bike at Eurobike (Roadlite:ON V2X<\/a>), that has bike to vehicle technology V2X. That bike is actually purchasable today, and theoretically talks to cars equipped with such technology. But it\u2019s very different than the Canyon Predict, which doesn\u2019t have V2X (because they want to do it without requiring the car to be equipped with V2X).<\/p>\n So, here\u2019s the most notable bits of the bike, from a tech standpoint:<\/p>\n \u2013 360* Camera Coverage: There are four cameras onboard, three up front and one at the rear, combined to have complete 360* camera coverage. This is very similar to what we see from both drones and cars that combine numerous cameras into a single cohesive picture of what\u2019s going on around it.<\/p>\n \u2013 Four radar sensors: There are three radar sensors on the front of the bike (two side, one forwards), and then one rear radar sensor. The front set is there to detect objects as you approach and pass them, while the rear radar is there to detect overtaking vehicles. The rear radar is very similar to existing cycling radars, while the front radars are most focused on determining exact distances to objects.<\/p>\n \u2013 Onboard AI Edge Compute: Essentially, a big processing unit to combine all this data, processing it fully locally. There\u2019s no dependency on connectivity (cellular or WiFi), instead, everything is processed locally for both privacy and speed\/responsiveness reasons.<\/p>\n \u2013 Tire Pressure Sensors: These are inside the tire, and provide realtime pressure readings, which are in turn leveraged both both simple \u2018are you running low on air\u2019, as well as road grip suggestions (e.g. for rainy days). The wheels themselves are from DT Swiss, along with the hubs inside.<\/p>\n \u2013 1KG (2.2lbs) Onboard Battery: No, this is not an eBike, this is *purely* for computational and powering tasks. That\u2019s an absolutely massive battery to have on a bike for just powering all the cameras\/radars\/sensors\/compute. The current battery claim is 8 hours, but that\u2019s heavily likely to change before release (probably for the better, as things get more efficient).<\/p>\n \u2013 Front and Rear Lights on the frame: Pretty self-explanatory. They didn\u2019t have any specific lumen specs yet, as that\u2019d all be finalized later on. But you can see it\u2019s a pretty big light bar on the back.<\/p>\n \u2013 Handlebar lights (mostly for the rider): These act as warning lights to the rider themselves, such as warning the rider to slow\/stop due to a predicted issue up ahead (like car dooring, or pothole\/manhole\/etc).<\/p>\n \u2013 Extra handlebar buttons: In addition to regular shifting buttons, there\u2019s also a secondary set of inner buttons on the handlebars that you can use for specific functions, including raising\/lowering the saddle, turn signals, or ordering pizza (maybe\u2026ok, probably not).<\/p>\n \u2013 SRAM RED groupset: This is what it was equipped with on the stand, but obviously, there\u2019s no real dependency here on the groups. By time this bike ships it could be a different SRAM groupset, a Shimano groups, or something else entirely.<\/p>\n \u2013 Price & Timelines: There\u2019s no price yet, and the timelines remain super vague. Still, Canyon hopes that perhaps in 2-3 years such a concept could be ready for production.<\/p>\n Got all that? Good, let\u2019s dive into things more deeply.<\/p>\n A Closer Look:<\/p>\n Now, I\u2019d encourage you to watch the video up above. I basically walk through each component of the bike with the lead hardware engineer at Canyon responsible for it. Lots of good tidbits in there.<\/p>\n Nonetheless, let\u2019s step through it piece by piece from the front, moving backwards. First up, you can see the main forward lights just above the fork. There\u2019s also two further white lights illuminated atop the handlebars.<\/p>\n Directly above the lights you can see through the plastic and barely see the front radar sensor as well as front cameras. These are used for detecting objects (vehicles\/people\/potholes\/etc up ahead). At the show, they had a live feed showing what the cameras are seeing when it comes to detection and classification, as well as confidence %. This is *NOT* what the end user sees, but rather, just what the computer it seeing. In the video, you can see as people move out of the way, it keeps detecting the bike in the right of the frame (as a bike)<\/p>\n Instead, what the user sees is this handlebar display. Obviously, the very first question I had was whether or not this display was in partnership with the now ill-fated OnlyFans crowd-funded handlebar display I covered last year<\/a>. In fact, I asked three different Canyon engineers, all separately, and every one of them said it definitely wasn\u2019t. They were pretty insistent that they have no partnership or licensing there at all. Of course, despite that project, handlebar display concepts are hardly new in cycling. But still, many people would (rightfully) ask, especially given that both are German companies.<\/p>\n In any case, the display shows usual bike computer bits, such as speed\/power\/heart rate, as well as navigational bits. All of this is fairly demo-like. When asked whether or not this complements an existing bike computer or replaces it, Canyon said \u201cIt could replace it, in the long run\u2026right now we\u2019re just mostly focused on safety\u201d.<\/p>\n I\u2019d argue that creating a good bike computer that consumers actually want on their handlebars is an area that most companies underestimate. Heck, I think even some of the very companies making those bike computers have forgotten that recently.<\/p>\n Creating a *competitive* bike computer from scratch requires a boatload of different feature areas: Navigation, routing, re-routing, offline maps, structured workouts, sensor connectivity (e.g. power meters, cadence sensors, heart rate sensors, radar, lights, numerous other sensor types), climb-related metrics (e.g. ClimbPro), and literally hundreds of other features. It\u2019s \u2018easy\u2019t make something like the above image that shows basic information. It\u2019s really hard to make a bike computer that competes with what Garmin\/Wahoo\/Hammerhead\/etc have been building for 10-15 years.<\/p>\n I feel like the better opportunity here, short to mid-term, is for Canyon to partner with a Garmin\/Wahoo to basically build such a bike computer into their handlebars. But whether either side will overcome their egos to do so, would be a bigger question.<\/p>\n In any event, when it comes to forward predictive avoidance, the bike is pulling in the forward radar and camera sensors to put together that picture of what\u2019s happening. From there it\u2019s using the sensors in the bike (including steering tube sensors) to determine whether or not you\u2019re on track to actually hit said thing. Meaning, if you turn such that your new angle is away from the danger (like a car door), it won\u2019t flag that as an alert.<\/p>\n The system\u2019s response time is 1\/20th of a second (50ms), operating continuously. They noted that they will eventually look at how they can save battery by slightly reducing that. For example, if you\u2019re riding on a simple empty road in the middle of empty farmland, they could reduce it down to 1\/5th of a second, and likely save a bunch of battery (by reducing compute processing time).<\/p>\n The unit itself has full connectivity, but doesn\u2019t require it for any actions. All of it is processed locally. They said this is for two core reasons. The first is privacy; they don\u2019t want your imagery having to go to the cloud and be processed remotely. Canyon\u2019s lead engineer noted how much they\u2019re hearing today from customers about lack of trust in AI system and AI processing (from a privacy standpoint). Thus, everything is processed within the bike.<\/p>\n The second reason is simply responsiveness. To achieve that 50ms response\/identification time, doing so across poor cellular connectivity simply isn\u2019t viable.<\/p>\n Speaking of processing, the entire thing is dependent on a 1kg-sized battery inside the bike, which currently only gets them about 8 hours of battery time. They said not to overthink the battery life estimates right now, because a lot will change in terms of tech (and battery burn) in the next 2-3 years, including just their own optimizations. Also keep in mind this is powering the full stack of bike lights, cameras, radar, bike computer, GPS, etc\u2026<\/p>\n Still, I feel like they should be shooting for around 12-15 hours of ride time, or essentially a full week\u2019s worth of riding for most riders buying this time of bike.<\/p>\n Nonetheless, next up are the handlebars. This is a combination of a SRAM shifter, with their own handlebar. You can see the white light below, which also changes red, and will alert accordingly (see the video how that works). Likewise, there\u2019s also a vibration motor planned in there, as well as audible alerts via the main display portion \u2013 just like any other bike computer.<\/p>\n But if you look you\u2019ll also notice that silver button. That allows for activating left\/right turn signals, as well as customization to enable moving the saddle up\/down. The bike has an adjustable height saddle that can go up\/down by simple button press (also shown in the video). The idea here being to allow for more stable (lower) positions while descending. If I were to bet on any piece that won\u2019t make the final bike, it\u2019s this. We\u2019re not talking about a typical dropper post scenario that uses a spring, but rather, this is literally like a small elevator for your seat post. That\u2019s electronically and mechanically costly, and fraught with complexity.<\/p>\n Towards the back of the bike they\u2019ve got the rear light bar, as well as radar and camera packed above it.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, below it are the custom wheels from DT Swiss, which have a Canyon-designed tire pressure sensor in it (not designed by DT Swiss). Canyon says they can use this to give you warnings about not just tire pressure, but suggesting for dealing with road conditions (like rain) by changing tire pressure.<\/p>\n Finally, down below you\u2019ve got the relatively straightforward SRAM RED groupset. As noted above, this will probably change by time this bike comes out, but for now it looks nice.<\/p>\n There ya go \u2013 a complete look at this bike from front to back. Again, there\u2019s a fair number of bits in the video that are worthwhile diving into, showing how some of the features work in real-time.<\/p>\n The Stingr Smart Helmet:<\/p>\n I want to very briefly talk about the Stingr Smart helmet, which can operate with or without the bike. Likewise, the bike doesn\u2019t require the helmet. The helmet is also very much in the \u2018concept\u2019 phase, without any prices or timelines. I\u2019d actually guess that achieving such a helmet might be harder than the bike, especially once I saw the state of things (and, knowing the last decade+ of companies trying to make smart helmets\/glasses).<\/p>\n As you can see above, the helmet has a heads-up display on the inside, showing live metrics from your ride, just like a bike computer would. This includes all the usual bits like speed\/power\/cadence\/etc, but also directional stuff as well as warnings about vehicles and other dangers. Basically, much the same metrics as the Canyon Predict smart bike concept.<\/p>\n Except, as of today, the display isn\u2019t real. Well, at least for the rider. Yes, the display seen on stand was real, and was showing people *outside* the helmet a video and photo-friendly real and changing set of metrics. But in reality, that display was actually kinda fake. It wasn\u2019t for the rider. When you looked inside the helmet, there\u2019s just foam there.<\/p>\n For context, over the years I\u2019ve tried\u00a0Recon Snow<\/a>\u00a0(2012+),\u00a0Recon Jet<\/a>\u00a0(2013+),\u00a0Google Glass<\/a>\u00a0(2014),\u00a0Recon Jet<\/a>\u00a0(2013+),\u00a0Garmin Varia Vision<\/a>\u00a0(2016), to the\u00a0SOLOS glasses<\/a>\u00a0(2018),\u00a0Everysight Raptor<\/a>\u00a0(2018), \u00a0FORM Swim Goggles<\/a> (2019+), Oakley Vanguard (2025)<\/a>, and many more I never got around to writing about. And that ignores products like the Apple Vision Pro<\/a> (2024).<\/p>\n Having talked to many companies over the years that work in this space of heads-up display space, what Canyon is trying to do is\u00a0by far one of the most difficult things to do. <\/p>\n You have to find a way to project something against that glass that\u2019s also visible to the end user in all sorts of lighting conditions. By having the foam backing in the demo, they\u2019ve essentially removed the most difficult part of the problem. It\u2019s like building a rocket that doesn\u2019t have an engine\/motor to launch to space.<\/p>\n But, we\u2019ll set aside that for a brief second. Atop the helmet are also a set of lights that can be used as turn indicators, brake lights, or just general visibility. There\u2019s also small white lights to the left\/right of the large vent you see at the rear (they show illuminated\/blinking in the video).<\/p>\n Inside the helmet there\u2019s audio alerts as well as haptic (vibration) alerting.<\/p>\n Finally, up top there\u2019s an implied solar panel, for powering it. Assuming they sort out the overall cooling elements (e.g. vents), putting a solar power atop your head is actually quite logical. Currently it\u2019s slated for 8-15 hours of battery life.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s a chart from Canyon showing all the features in the helmet (or at least, planned to be in the helmet):<\/p>\n Again, who knows what that\u2019ll look like once it finally ships.<\/p>\n Wrap-Up:<\/p>\n In an ideal world, regulators would find ways to get drivers to be more aware of cyclists and pedestrians. But we don\u2019t all live in the Netherlands, thus, pretending to ourselves that\u2019s going to change doesn\u2019t save lives. It simply doesn\u2019t. I\u2019m tired of watching cyclists I know get killed by drivers, and thus I\u2019m more than happy for companies to try and do things that attempt to reduce the number of cyclists getting killed.<\/p>\n It is an unfortunate reality that certain (many?) countries will continue to have poor safety laws, bad or distracted drivers, or even bad road conditions. Many cyclists already use safety devices to try and mitigate some of those risks, such as rear-radar units. And others add safety cameras for post-incident evidence.<\/p>\n As cyclists we should continue to push for regulation changes, and hold bad drivers accountable. But equally, we can also be pushing for real-world solutions that safe our friends lives in the meantime. Sadly, no points awarded for coulda\/shoulda\/woulda when it comes to preventing cycling accidents. Thus, I\u2019m all for whatever trusted tech can be put in place to prevent that, from any company. Whether or not Canyon can make this tech, or more challengingly, make it trustworthy, remains to be seen.<\/p>\n Finally, there\u2019s the element of how well such a system would work long-term given everything is built-in. Meaning, could you swap out the handlebar or front sensors for a new version? Or would that require a new bike? I\u2019d think swapping handlebars should be straightforward, but not if the main computing unit is somewhere else in the frame. Things that need to be decided and weighed by both Canyon and consumers.<\/p>\n With that \u2013 thanks for reading!<\/p>\n FOUND THIS POST USEFUL? SUPPORT THE SITE!<\/p>\n Hopefully, you found this post useful. The website is really a labor of love, so please consider becoming a DC RAINMAKER Supporter<\/a>. 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