Built for professionals by professionals: The frame of the Ultimate CF Team was created by carbon fibre experts at Canyon. The complete bicycle was designed in cooperation with the most forward-looking partners in the bicycle industry: The frame is equipped with the most pristine Campagnolo Record group set, complemented by carbon fibre super lightweight Mavic wheels. The finest finishing kit accessories from Ritchey refine the cockpit even further.

The racing saddles from Selle Italia are a unique interface between bike and rider, the Cycleops hub's monitoring of performance guarantees the greatest possible level of training success as well as precise data during a race, and the precisely engineered i-lock head set from Acros rounds-off the Silence-Lotto team bike because the best riders deserve only the best equipment..

The Ultimate CF Team is the bike the Silence-Lotto team uses in nearly all its races. However in time-trialling it isn't just about lightness, stiffness and comfort. That's why the riders ride time-trials on an exclusively built Speedmax CF, as the bike fulfils all the ideal prerequisites to win the race against the watch.

The greatest attention will undoubtedly be drawn to the Speedmax CF 2009 during the two individual time-trials

and the team time-trial at the Tour de France. The professionals know only too well that overall victory in the Tour is only possible with a good performance against the watch and if one can conquer one's own weaker self. That is exactly why the time trials are among the most important stages of a race of this kind. However, during other stage races the Silence-Lotto riders also count on the aerodynamically optimised frame from Canyon.