Pro bike check: Jasper Philipsen's Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne winning Canyon Aeroad CFR

Jasper Philipsen sprinted to a convincing win at Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne on Sunday, improving on his third-place finish at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad the day before. 

The sunshine was starting to weaken on Sunday afternoon when the Belgian fast-man finally rolled into the post-race interview zone to speak to the media. During this time, I spent a few minutes taking a look at his bike before he was whisked away again. 

Philipsen raced to the win on his team issue Canyon Aeroad CFR, widely considered to be one of the best road bikes. Canyon has sponsored Alpecin-Deceunick for several years now. 

It’s a fairly stock setup, but there are a few interesting details to be observed. Philipsen, like his teammates, rides the Aeroad CFR with a Dura-Ace groupset, Dura-Ace C50 wheels and Canyon finishing kit. The team switched from Vittoria tyres during the winter to Pirelli P Zero TLR RS tubeless models, and Philipsen won on 30mm tyres at Kuurne. 

The bike was covered in race splatter and was UCI security tagged post-race, but had a ‘2’ sticker next to the Philipsen top tube name sticker. Did the Belgian win on his number-two race bike?