Canyon Strive Review Best Enduro Bike Out? #enduromtb #canyonbikes

The Canyon Strive enduro bike has been in Canyon Bike's range for many years now, beginning life as a 26” wheeled offering in the beginning of the real Enduro bike era. Nowadays it’s Canyon’s race-focused Enduro machine, designed to assist their team riders in their missions to top the podium at Enduro World Series rounds across the globe. How does that race-focused mindset translate to performance for us mere mortals looking for a daily driver outside of the tape? Very, very well as it turns out. Read on to find out why.

THE DIRT
Since I had obtained a relatively good baseline setting with the help of the Canyon team out in Finale Ligure at the launch event, getting the Strive CFR dialed in was easy when back on home soil. That’s not to say the Canyon team offered me any tips or tricks to get it set up other than recommending 30% sag out back when in the Descend mode of the Shapeshifter. From there, with the stock tokens, it was simply a case of dialing in the compression and rebound settings to my liking. I ended up fairly middling in the compression settings of the shock and a touch firmer in the fork to provide the support to stand up when pushing as hard as the Strive demanded, with the rebound set one click faster than recommended up front and the rear tweaked to match. Through a range of conditions across trails in both the UK and the Alps, this baseline setup rarely needed tweaking, striking a great middle ground of support and sensitivity.

The major talking point of this bike is the Shapeshifter system, so I’ll give the low-down on this to begin with before talking about how it affects the ride. The basic operation is quite simple in principle: you click the lever on the left side which sits just above the dropper post lever, allowing the Shapeshifter’s air shaft to extend and move the upper mount of the shock. This steepens the head tube and seat tube angles, raises the bottom bracket, and changes the kinematic of the rear suspension to reduce the total travel and increase the amount of pedaling support.

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Price as Tested: $7,300 /£5,999 /€6,299
Weight as Tested: 15.9kg (35lbs)
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