Canyon has officially launched a brand new version of its Endurace CFR endurance bike, and it appears it’s a bike that has been designed with a very specific purpose in mind.
The Endurace was first launched back in 2014, a long time ago now. The bike received updates in 2016 and then again in 2023, and for the last three years at least, it has been the more comfortable, less aggressive, yet still exciting to ride, alternative to the Ultimate and Aeroad machines in the Canyon road bike range.
Article continues below
Mathieu van der Poel has won the last three editions of Paris-Roubaix on a Canyon Aeroad, Canyon’s all-out, aero race bike, that WorldTour riders use for everything.
Canyon says the Endurace CFR has been designed ‘to get to Roubaix fastest’ and has been developed ‘in close collaboration with Alpecin-Premier Tech’.
That’s pretty clear-cut. Canyon has gone away and tried to make Van der Poel the best tool for the job to win at Roubaix, which, within the pro cycling calendar, presents a unique set of requirements for a bike and equipment. I spoke with Canyon before the bike launched to gauge how much input Van der Poel had regarding this bike, and it sounds like quite a lot.
Visually, the new Endurace CFR looks very similar to an Aeroad, and from a distance, it’s difficult to tell the two bikes apart at times. A lot of the Aeroad design language has been employed here; the bike’s seatposts are interchangeable, and the Endurace uses the same fork as the Aeroad, for example, and it sounds like it’s been needed to keep the Endurace close to the Aeroad in terms of outright speed. The geometry is also nearly identical, so this is quite a different beast compared to the outgoing Endurace CFR.
To start with, tyre clearance has been…
Click Here to Read the Full Original Article at CyclingNews RSS Feed…