Pro bike gallery: Luca Paolini's Paris-Roubaix Canyon

Luca Paolini lined up for Paris-Roubaix on this great looking Canyon. He rides a 50cm frame, puts his seat at 69.4cm and the reach to his handlebars is 53.5cm. Photo: Nick Legan

Veteran Paolini is going well this season. He finished seventh at last weekend’s Tour of Flanders. Photo: Nick Legan

Paolini uses a 10cm stem and 42cm Classic drop bars. His SRM displayed was mounted, even zip-tied on, but his bike didn’t have an SRM crank on it. Photo: Nick Legan

Plenty of tire clearance even with a fat 27mm tire installed. Photo: Nick Legan

That’s a Mavic SSC hot patch, but the tire looks an awful lot like a Challenge Parigi-Roubaix. Photo: Nick Legan

A negative rise stem and round handlebars are often signals that a pro bike is in front of you. The Canyon “One One Four” fork has an oversized steerer top to bottom. The Ritchey stem is one of the few that fit the 1.25″ steerer. Photo: Nick Legan

Very straightforward cable routing is loved by team mechanics. Paolini’s Canyon delivers on that front. Photo: Nick Legan

A carbon-railed Selle Italia SLR is Paolini’s perch of choice. Photo: Nick Legan

Paolini is running 53-46 chainrings for Roubaix. The Canyon chain catcher keeps front derailleur adjustment independent of the catcher. Photo: Nick Legan

Katusha mechanic, Gregor Willwohl, installs a bottle boss-mounted chain catcher that Canyon produces. The German was happy for sunny skies during the prep days ahead of Roubaix. Photo: Nick Legan

Many cycling fans focus on the riders and the bikes when they attend a race. But the team trucks are wonders of creative problem solving and organization. The Katusha truck has this very tidy compartment for its water, electrical and pneumatic lines. Photo: Nick Legan

Canyon’s bottle boss-mounted chain catcher is wonderfully simple. It has a series of slotted holes for vertical and lateral adjustment. Photo: Nick Legan