Canyon has today announced four new e-road bikes, the big news that the flagship Endurace:ONfly SUB-10 is, as its name suggests, sub-10kg and apparently “the lightest” e-road bike out there.
It’s certainly a fair bit lighter than some of its top-of-the-range rivals, the claimed 9.86kg weight about 2kg below Trek’s £11,750 Domane+ SLR 9 and 800g below the Scott Addict RC eRide Ultimate, although the latter is £1,100 cheaper than Canyon’s. The Endurace:ONfly SUB-10 is however cheaper than Trek, Specialized and Giant’s top-tier e-road bikes, Canyon pricing its new flagship model at £9,299, so still expensive enough.
Accompanying the sub-10kg, slightly sub-£10,000 model are three others — the Endurace:ONfly CF6, CF7 and CF8, priced at £4,199, £5,149 and £6,499 respectively.
All feature a TQ HPR 40 motor and slimline battery that Canyon says is “super compact” and means they still “look and feel like a ‘normal’ high-performance road bike”. That motor will provide up to 200w of assistance and cuts out at 25km/h.
Canyon says it worked with TQ on the new HPR40 system, which it says is “whisper quiet” and features a fully integrated 290Wh TQ battery. With an optional TQ 160Wh water bottle-style range extender, Canyon is confident most riders could “easily” enjoy range for more than 100km and 2,000m of climbing from a full charge.
The SUB-10’s carbon frame weighs 1,000g and it is kitted out with Shimano Dura-Ace Di2, 45mm DT Swiss ERC 1100 Dicut carbon wheels, Canyon’s aero carbon cockpit and 28mm Schwalbe Pro One Evo tyres, although all four models have clearance for 35mm rubber.
The £4,199 CF6 has Shimano 105 mechanical shifting and DT Swiss’s Endurance LN wheelset, while the £5,149 CF7 has 105’s 12-speed Di2 groupset but the same DT Swiss Endurance LN wheels. The second most expensive model, the £6,499 CF8, jumps up to Shimano Ultegra Di2 and DT Swiss ERC 1400 Dicut wheels.
The Ultegra and Dura-Ace models have functionality to control the motor from the hoods and there is also a bar-end remote which displays power status. As you’d expect, the TQ system also connects wirelessly to your phone or bike computer for full power and range metrics.
Canyon explained its venture into the e-road bike market by suggesting the industry’s output in the area has “lagged behind that of electric mountain bikes”, so e-road bikes may be powerful but come at the cost of “imposing a significant weight penalty and sacrifice in ride quality”.
Unsurprisingly, Canyon backs itself to have addressed that here, saying the Endurace:ONfly models “feel like a ‘normal’ high-performance road bike” and have a “barely discernable motor and battery hidden in the frame”.
“The sound from the TQ system is whisper quiet, nearly non-existent,” Canyon claims. “And at a mere 9.86kg, the top-tier Endurace:ONfly SUB-10 model is a massive 2kg lighter than most flagship e-road models.”
On the weight front, the CF6 come with a claimed weight of 12.1kg, the CF7 11.72kg and the CF8 10.94kg. That means the CF7 and CF8 are both lighter than some other brands’ flagship models too.
According to Canyon, the SUB-10 benefited from something called NeoBeam technology, the frame made 300g lighter by “reducing frame tube wall thickness without compromising strength”.
All four models also feature an integrated anti-theft motion detector and GPS tracker, so you can see your bike’s location through the Canyon app. They’ve also all got a LightSKIN U1 Ultra headlight, and Canyon X Lupine SightStays, which add an additional visibility point at the back of the bike.
The full range is available in seven sizes from 2XS to 2XL, the 2XS models benefitting from 165mm cranks.
Bastian Langlitz, Canyon’s product manager, said: “We set out to create a new benchmark for e-road bikes, designing a bike that catches your eye with how it looks, how little it weighs, how it handles and how it uses tech like always-on lights, performance tuning and anti-theft to build the best e-road bike currently on the market.”
All four models are available now on Canyon’s website where you can find the full spec and all the info. We’ve also got our test bike on its way to the office, so check back for a review soon.
