Canyon Ultimate CF Evo 10.0 LTD

£7499 Featherweight superbike for less than the competition

Canyon’s Ultimate range of race bikes have always been light, but alongside these, each year for the past decade, it’s added a specialedition, top-of-the-range bike called the Evo with a lightened chassis and a collection of lightweight parts.

The 2020 Ultimate CF Evo 10.0 Ltd is now available as a discbrake bike, which tips the scales at the UCI race-limit (6.8kg)! When you consider the frame weighs just 675g and the fork 285g, combine those and that’s around the same weight as a frame alone on a lot of pro-level bikes. Frankly, it’s astonishingly light and, unsurprisingly, it’s Canyon’s lightest ever road-disc frameset. The composites chosen for the frame combine ultra high modulus (UHM) carbon and an ultra-high tension (UHT) carbon material that weighs just 90g per square metre in its woven pre-impregnated (with resin) form. Everywhere on this bike, the focus is on light weight and performance with parts, such as Canyon’s sub-300g, one-piece CP20 bar/stem combo alongside a featherweight seatpost from German high-end carbon specialists Schmolke, which has a claimed weight of just 95g. Even DT Swiss’s wheelset is all about gram saving with the 1283g (a pair) special-edition PRC1000s, and these are shod with Schwalbe’s lightweight TT version of its Pro One Evo tyre.

There are small, weight-saving measures all over this bike. The front mech mount is integral to the frame and made of carbon fibre. The bolt hardware throughout the frame is titanium, rather than steel, and the thru-axles are made from lightened aluminium. Canyon has even gone to the trouble of reducing the frame graphics to a minimum, using lightweight lacquer to shave every piece of excess from the build. It’s all driven by SRAM’s wireless Red AXS group and even though this is an exercise in lightness it’s still managed to add a Quarq power meter chainset into the mix.

Although the £7499 price tag is a hell of a lot of money, relative to rival brand’s superbikes it’s a bit of a bargain with Giant’s new TCR Advanced SL, for example, coming in at £9499. So, if you’ve got a spare £8k hanging around...

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The power driving this featherweight bike is SRAM's impressive Red AXS Keeping the focus on lightweight with Canyon's sub-300g CP20 bar/stem combo A featherweight seatpost from Schmolke, weighing in at a weenie 95g!