The Canyon Ultimate CF frame shape is the result of engineering concepts borne in the name of a stiffer drivetrain and front triangle matched with a comfortable ride instead of just aesthetics.James Huang/BikeRadar.com
The Canyon Ultimate CF’s down tube is especially broad and tall in comparison to the top tube.James Huang/BikeRadar.com
Canyon’s One One Four fork design uses a gigantic tapered 1 1/4″-to-1 1/2″ steerer.James Huang/BikeRadar.com
The Ultimate CF’s Maximus seat tube includes a riveted-on front derailleur mount.James Huang/BikeRadar.com
Canyon’s Ultimate Al frame uses the company’s One One Four front end, asymmetrical Maximus seat tube shaping and spindly seat stays.James Huang/BikeRadar.com
The custom Acros headset adjusts with just a single Allen key.James Huang/BikeRadar.com
Canyon’s Maximus asymmetrical seat tube design puts a lot of extra material on the non-driveside where there’s more room available.James Huang/BikeRadar.com
The incredibly tiny seat stays presumably deliver a comfortable ride.James Huang/BikeRadar.com
Canyon claims its exclusive Ritchey-made carbon seatpost offers an especially well damped ride.James Huang/BikeRadar.com
Mounted to the front of this Canyon Ultimate Al display bike was this 3000 Aero wheelset from German compatriot Citec.James Huang/BikeRadar.com
The Citec front hub uses a fully machined aluminium shell and nipples at both ends of the spoke.James Huang/BikeRadar.com
Canyon offers three versions of its Torque platform, from the versatile FR variant pictured here to the lighter enduro build and the burly FRX for more demanding freeride and downhill applications.James Huang/BikeRadar.com
The Torque frame features a tapered head tube for use with 1 1/8″-to-1 1/2″ steerers.James Huang/BikeRadar.com
The double-walled bottom bracket shell also provides the foundation for the surprisingly minimal looking main pivot.James Huang/BikeRadar.com
The rear dropouts and suspension pivots are extra-wide and presumably quite rigid.James Huang/BikeRadar.com
Sag is easily set with the etched-on markers.James Huang/BikeRadar.com
Canyon showed off this ‘Projekt S5’ machine complete with 180mm of travel front and rear and weighing under 12kg (26.5lb) as seen here.James Huang/BikeRadar.com
Canyon made its own arm and chainring guards for the THM-Carbones Clavicula crankset.James Huang/BikeRadar.com
Mounted up top is a stout machined aluminium linkage.James Huang/BikeRadar.com
The machined aluminium Recon cassette certainly helps the Projekt S5 hit its impressive weight.James Huang/BikeRadar.com
The Syntace X-12 thru-axle design was surprisingly widespread at Eurobike, perhaps in part thanks to its beefy replaceable rear derailleur hanger.James Huang/BikeRadar.com
German online-only bicycle company Canyon debuted its latest Torque off-road frame platforms at this year’s Eurobike show to complement the current freeride/downhill-specific Torque FRX.
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Canyon will offer the new lighter-weight Torque in both 160mm ES and 170mm-travel FR variants to suit enduro to light freeride applications. Common elements include mostly square-profile 7500-series aluminium tubing, a true four-bar linkage design, tapered 1 1/8″-to-1 1/2″ front ends, Truvativ HammerSchmidt-compatible ISCG tabs, full cartridge bearing pivots and a convenient etched-on sag indicator for easier setup.
The rear end of the Torque FR is fitted with Syntace X-12 12x142mm thru-axle dropouts while the more all-mountain oriented ES gets standard 135mm OLD quick-release dropouts.
Claimed frame weight for the ES is 3.1kg (6.8lb) without the included RockShox Monarch 4.2 air shock and 3.39kg (7.47lb) for the beefier FR, again without its included Manitou Evolver ISX-6 rear shock.
Canyon showed off this ‘projekt s5’ machine complete with 180mm of travel front and rear and weighing under 12kg (26.5lb) as seen here. :James Huang/BikeRadar.com
Canyon showed off this ‘Projekt S5’ machine complete with 180mm of travel front and rear and weighing under 12kg (26.5lb) as seen here.
Canyon also put together a special show bike to demonstrate the Torque’s versatility called the Projekt S5.
Canyon made its own arm and chainring guards for the thm-carbones clavicula crankset.:James Huang/BikeRadar.com
Canyon made its own arm and chainring guards for the THM-Carbones Clavicula crankset.
Built around a specially lightened ‘Torque 2010 light’ frame weighing 2.9kg (6.4lb) and boasting an array of exotica such as a two-ring THM-Carbones Clavula carbon crankset, a Recon machined aluminium cassette, and a RockShox prototype rear shock – but also some impressively standard items such as the DT Swiss EXC 1550 wheelset and SRAM X.0 transmission – total claimed weight was a fantastic sub-12kg (26.3lb).
Canyon’s ultimate al frame uses the company’s one one four front end, asymmetrical maximus seat tube shaping and spindly seat stays.:James Huang/BikeRadar.com
Canyon’s Ultimate Al frame uses the company’s One One Four front end, asymmetrical Maximus seat tube shaping and spindly seat stays.
Trickle-down tech was the story on the road front with the Ultimate CF SLX, Ultimate CF and Ultimate Al frames carrying over for 2010, and all still boasting Canyon’s giant 1 1/4″-to-1 1/2″ tapered front ends, Maximus asymmetrical seat tubes and spindly seat stays.
Canyon’s one one four fork design uses a gigantic tapered 1 1/4James Huang/BikeRadar.com
Canyon’s One One Four fork design uses a gigantic tapered 1 1/4″-to-1 1/2″ steerer.
The top-end One One Four SLX carbon fork will now be included with all three models, however, and the Ultimate Al will also get the Canyon-exclusive VCLS comfort-enhancing carbon seatpost built by Ritchey.
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