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captainsasquatch,
Those are different matters entirely, the cost of a coffee from two different shops on opposite sides of the continent aren't supposed to be controlled by EU law, what is supposed to be controlled is the selling of goods/services across the EU, in this case mail order bikes from Germany, under EU law they should be sold at the same price (plus postage) to anywhere in the EU. The coffee shop in Athens isn't offering mail order coffee to Warsaw and Berlin and charging more for one than the other.
It's also not a case of having your cake and eating it in that way, cheap euro's make it easy for Germany to export (in this case Canyon bikes), it's bad for the UK as a whole as it means our equivalents (On-One, Ribble, Singular, etc) are effectively priced out of the EU market so can no longer export. If we were in the Euro we'd be watching the price of everything sky-rocket at the moment (be equally exports to the US might be doing well).
Nothing will likely happen though as we're only a few months away from 2016 bikes being launched, and I'd expect to see the euro prices shoot up and the £ prices stay fairly static and the £:$ has stayed relatively static over the last year compared to £:euro (pretty much anything is traded in $ internationally, much rarer to buy something in Euro or £).
Just checked the exchange rate today, a strive 8 is £3250 delivered to the door in the UK. If buying in euros and delivered to an address in the euro zone £ 2290.00 hell of a saving to be had.
Its not £2290.
You took the UK price in GBP and divided it by the Euro exchange rate. What you need to do is change the country to Germany at the top to show the actual Euro price of e3700, add a bikeguard for e17 to get e3717 total and divide that by the current Euro rate for £2617, then add the cost of a courier.
With regard to the Pound/ Euro debate, haven't we, as a nation, constantly rejected the Euro.
Having cake and eating it rings a bell here.
There are numerous pro's and con's to being in the EU (not a discussion for here). We pay a huge amount of money to be part of it and without doubt, the biggest benefit is cross border free trade which Canyon is refusing to honour. Canyons supplier agreement comes a distant second place to this fundament of the European Union.
To use your analogy, it's like paying for a cake, being told you have a cake then not being allowed any.