Canyon's new Endurace CFR is basically an updated Aeroad

Canyon, Suvi Loponen

Canyon has officially launched the Endurace CFR, its new road bike developed in collaboration with pro riders, namely Mathieu van der Poel, and built around a single objective: to excel on the cobbles.

This launch is hardly a surprise. While Van der Poel raced the bike to a win at E3 recently, as far back as November he was spotted training on what observers correctly identified then as an unreleased Canyon road bike, albeit one that didn't fit neatly into either the Aeroad or Ultimate camps. As it turns out, it was neither, but rather an Endurace with the geometry and aerodynamics of an Aeroad, with a stiffer front end and tyre clearance that the race bike had not previously offered.

While Canyon claims that none of this makes the Aeroad redundant, the more you look at the differences, the clearer it is that the Venn diagram of the overlap between the current Aeroad and the new Endurace CFR is basically a single circle. And there is perhaps a reason why it is so.

The road to being 'the world's fastest all-road race bike'

When Canyon launched the Endurace in 2014, Canyon's road range was split clearly: the Ultimate focused on low weight, the Aeroad on aerodynamics, and the Endurace filled the sportive gap with a more relaxed geometry – a bike for riders who wanted to cover distance rather than win races. The clue was in the name, a mix of endurance and race, but the emphasis was firmly on the former half.

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