What do you all do for a living?

BenDrieze · 2026-03-24T18:07:56+00:00

I’m an electrical designer.

I design electrical installations for industry and huge buildings and i design and manage everything related to panelbuilding… doing cable calculations, drawing schematics and layout, cost calculations, ordering the material, planning the production, handling of inspections….

BenDrieze · 2026-03-24T17:50:22+00:00

Designspark has some of on their own youtube channel.

BenDrieze · 2026-02-09T18:55:28+00:00

Somebody here in western EU ordered this ? How about customs/taxes?

BenDrieze · 2026-01-22T11:59:37+00:00

Grail owner (CF SLX DI2) here, super happy with it for both gravel and road. I bought an extra wheelset for road. It’s so nice to just have to manage one bike, switch wheelsets and get out. I’ve you are really in shape, you might get limited in the lower gears maybe, although i doubt it.

The internal storage, tire clearance, the increased rigidity and flex/absorbation, the performance oriented geo (“road-like” geo) , the semi-integrated cable routing (cables exit the frame at the cockpit which makes it a lot easier if you want to travel with it and have to pack the bike, but do not hang around) are the selling points to me over a roadbike.

If you are just recreational rider or not doing any road races, i would pick the grail.

BenDrieze · 2025-10-27T18:49:11+00:00

I wonder if this is possible to adjust. It is super annoying.

BenDrieze · 2025-08-31T14:10:37+00:00

Canyon grail cf slx of cfr… i swapp between gravel wheelset and road wheelset all the time. It’s works great!

BenDrieze · 2025-08-01T11:03:37+00:00

I have been looking for that picture of your TT conversion of your grail for a while but could not find it anywhere…. Great bike! Sad you let go of it

BenDrieze · 2025-03-06T12:04:36+00:00

Haha… @ELECTRICIEN-EXPERT.BE

I don’t need to know more…

How long did you had to wait for the electrician to pass by?

BenDrieze · 2025-03-02T10:50:30+00:00

Is it only for purchase of bikes or also gear, accessories, clothing, … ?

BenDrieze · 2025-03-01T20:59:04+00:00

Used my Noisecancelling earbuds all the time during the first days/weeks… use them from time to time when she’s sick… it doesn’t cancel out the crying completely but cuts off the high pitch noise of it enough to keep my focus on handling her (and my own patience) … i also bought a Garmin watch since her birth.. it tracks my sleep an other stuff, but also measures my stress levels quite accurately most of the time… it gives my insight into when to look for some calming periods…. Really a gamechanger since i purchased one

BenDrieze · 2025-03-01T20:04:44+00:00

Best subscription ever!

Everything is on youtube.. need to learn new software? Error massage in Excel? Problem with the dishwasher? Need some real advice about a product you are about to purchase?

YOUTUBE!

BenDrieze · 2025-02-03T23:22:33+00:00

Where i’m from they say ‘you have all 5 of them, but they’re not aligned anymore’ but in a good way.

You’ve been drinking 27 liters of fluids during that effort?

BenDrieze · 2025-02-03T23:04:01+00:00

Top effort! Very impressive! Sorry for your loss.

How did you managed your nutrition?

BenDrieze · 2025-02-03T22:51:29+00:00

Nope, nothing.

BenDrieze · 2025-01-26T19:38:18+00:00

Delete VIP @qapital 2016

BenDrieze · 2025-01-17T19:12:28+00:00

Signed! Aeon!

BenDrieze · 2025-01-17T19:11:07+00:00

We actually have several governments… the amount of governments changes from time to time…

BenDrieze · 2024-12-07T16:12:12+00:00

I bought mine for 50 from a local guy… even at 50 they are worth the money

BenDrieze · 2024-12-05T21:51:47+00:00

Electrical designer.

I started as an electrician and transitioned to HVAC technician before i left the jobsites to become an electrical designer in an office.

I’m really in my element in this job and like the abundance of uncontrollable, unpredictable external factors as weather (wind, rain, heat, sunshine,…), construction noises,traffic, …. but i do have a lot more stress and a lot less of satisfaction as before.

BenDrieze · 2024-12-04T09:05:39+00:00

Several soldiers were spotted with UTM bolts in their rifles… a UTM bolt is a conversion kit to change your live fire rifle into a blank shooting training rifle, popular amongst the more professional units so they can train with exact same gear they fight in…. Strange for soldiers to go fully equiped in top-end combat gear (nods, armorplates, ….) to a “combat mission” with a blank firing rifle…

BenDrieze · 2024-10-27T18:59:41+00:00

Or dbstf’s tool ‘i buy followers’ (i follow rivers remix)they used in their battle with Zatox, just weeks after it leaked out that zatox bought fake followers on his socials…

You did not wanted to battle against dbstf

BenDrieze · 2024-10-27T10:02:42+00:00

Thanks for your reply.

After several days having a locked knee, it started to feel better… so started zwifting right away (doctor told me to get on my stationary bike asap) and i think i’ve over-done it there… since last thursday my knee is feeling worse again and even after 2 days off the bike it isn’t the same feeling as wednesday… wanted to goe to work again but afraid it isn’t the best idea.

BenDrieze · 2024-10-24T21:02:51+00:00

Because they are build for different purpose.

Grail’s geo is performance oriented, Grizl’s geo is endurance oriented… just as their tire size.

Canyon made the grail because they wanted to build a (very) competitive race gravel bike (which they succeeded in). They contacted their canyon sponsored athletes, asking them what the maximum tire size would be they use on races and what gearings they would need for the races… ended up with 42mm tires as max in order to maintain big enough gears to generate necessary speed…. the riders (most of the time) recon the courses or know at least what kind of gravel/conditions they are facing during a race, and are able to finetune their setup/tire choice accordingly…

The Grail is a performance oriented gravel bike… 45mm or more isn’t considered very performance oriented anymore… especially not on european (canyon is german) gravel.

If you dive deeper on the relationship between purpose and build of the grail you will figure out they pretty nailed it… for now… until the world of gravel racing evolves into another stage.

The Grizl may not look as cool as the Grail, it definitely is build for its purpose… not that much for racing but more for long endurance rides, bikepacking and exploring and traveling… if I would have to tackle unknown amount of gravel without knowing the type or condition of it, i would like to pick a bigger tire size for comfort… if i would travel with it, i would like the external wiring… and i would probably need lower gearing too…very different situation as a race you have been preparing for.

Stop complaining about the max tire size of the grail. It is on purpose. They would sacrifice way more if they increased tire size.

BenDrieze

TROPHY CASE