Canyon Bikes USA

What model is right for you?

Canyon bikes are regarded as some of the best value options on the market, offering higher end components than most brands at each price point, largely made possible thanks to the German brand’s direct sales model.

Sponsor to several pro teams, Canyon has a state of the art factory in Koblenz, where it is able to carry out extensive research and testing, using computer assisted engineering and to design frames that are light, robust and stiff.

Who are Canyon Bikes?

Like many established brands, Canyon Bikes started out with a very different name and a very different business. In 1985, brothers Roman and Franc Arnold founded Radsport Arnold, supplying Italian bike parts to racers around their home country of Germany.

In 2001, the company became a bike manufacturer, and took on the name ‘Canyon Bicycles’. From then on, frame designers and engineers were recruited and the company began to grow.

Canyon operates via a direct sales method, selling bikes online and delivering them to the customer’s door. As a result, its most oft quoted selling point is its ability to pass the savings reaped by a lack of overheads on to the customer. The downside is that trying-before-you-buy is a big ask, unless you attend a demo day.

Canyon WMN bikes

In 2017, built around data based on thousands of female customers. The research was applied to the Canyon Ultimate, and Canyon Endurace — and in these cases, the bikes have a female specific geometry. All other model families — such as the Aeroad and time trial varieties — are available with identical frames to the unisex version, but with components such as narrower handlebars.

Canyon jargon buster:

A browse through the Canyon bikes range will reveal some common naming patterns. Bikes bear a model family name (Aeroad/Ultimate/Endurace), a frame grade (AL/CF SL/CF SLX) and then a number (7.0, 8.0, 9.0) which denotes the level of componentry. To differentiate the electric bike models, Canyon use the word ‘ON’ after the family name.

Canyon bikes: 2020 models

As the name might suggest, the Aeroad has been designed to cheat the wind and take you from A to B as quickly as possible. Wind tunnel testing has resulted in what Canyon call ‘Trident 2.0 tube profiles’ — which basically means they’ve been cut to provide optimum efficiency.