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2023 Canyon Neuron targets most versatility with up to date geometry and sensible body particulars
Mar
The brand new Neuron is offered in carbon and alloy body choices and begins at £1,849 / €1,899 for the most cost effective aluminium construct, rising to £5,749 / €5,999 for the top-flight carbon model.
The Canyon Neuron sits between the short-travel Spectral 125 path bike and the Spectral 29, the model’s burlier path bike.
With that in thoughts, the brand new bike has 130mm of journey out again and is paired with a 140mm-travel fork.
The geometry of the Neuron has been up to date with the intention of modernising the bike, whereas up to date body options embody absolutely sealed cable routing and revised pivot factors.
All this, Canyon says, means the Neuron is designed to be a real all-rounder – a motorbike equally capable of take you for a multi-day epic or a lunchtime blitz.
How does this new path bike journey? We put the Canyon Neuron CF 9 SL to the check.
Getting rowdier
The efficient seat tube angle has steepened by 1.5 levels to 76 levels. Canyon claims this improves pedalling efficiency by serving to to keep up rear-wheel traction and front-wheel management on steep climbs.
The pinnacle tube angle has been slackened by 1.5 levels to a modest 66 levels. That’s not the slackest head angle on the market for a path bike, nevertheless it ought to nonetheless assist increase stability at velocity over the outdated Neuron.
Attain numbers have additionally been stretched out.
A medium body has grown by 22mm, from 433mm to 455mm.
The seat tube has been trimmed by 20mm to allow using longer-travel dropper posts.
The seat tube on the carbon fibre body is now straight for elevated seatpost insertion. The down tube has additionally been slimmed to provide the body a extra refined look, says Canyon.
The satan’s within the particulars
Canyon has added a number of options to enhance reliability and value.
This consists of absolutely sealed cable routing from the top tube to the rear of the stays.
The bike has, nonetheless, moved to inner cable routing by the headset. Canyon is hardly alone right here, nevertheless it complicates servicing.
The pivot factors and {hardware} have additionally been up to date.
The primary pivot is wider to enhance rigidity. The pivots now use bolstered bolts and get new double lip seals to stop contamination.
These are coated with a ‘particular grease’ that’s claimed to guard the bearings.
A bolt-on down tube protector might be fitted. This sits degree with the floor of the tube.
Bolt-on chainstay safety lies flush in opposition to the chainring, close to the yoke space, defending your chainstay within the occasion of chain suck.
A series information can also be built-in into the body close to the principle pivot.
The Neuron now additionally makes use of the SRAM Common Derailleur Hanger.
Canyon has forgone inner body storage (an more and more widespread characteristic on bikes of all disciplines) in favour of a easy light-weight device bag that’s fitted to mounts on the down tube.
Materials variations
The brand new Canyon Neuron is offered in both aluminium or carbon choices.
The options that immediately have an effect on how the Neuron ought to journey (suspension journey, geometry and kinematics) are shared throughout each bikes.
This implies each ought to journey equally, although the aluminium body has a couple of much less subtle particulars.
To begin, the inner cable routing isn’t sleeved, and runs solely by the down tube.
The seat tube can also be bent, so it can not accommodate as lengthy a dropper put up.
Small individuals welcome
Measurement-small bikes and beneath get size-specific parts.
The small and extra-small bikes use 27.5in wheels. In addition they get narrower 740mm handlebars.
For comparability, medium to extra-large bikes roll on 29in wheels and use 760mm handlebars.
Dropper posts are additionally size-specific, with most extra-small mannequin bikes getting a 150mm-travel put up. The small and medium bikes use a 170mm put up, and the big and extra-large use 200mm posts.
Ladies’s bikes
Whereas Canyon has three girls’s-specific bikes within the newest Neuron vary, there isn’t a selected body for these bikes; all frames are unisex.
There are three sizes obtainable, from extra-small to medium.
These bikes get a girls’s-specific saddle and a narrower 740mm bar. The unisex medium bike makes use of a 760mm bar.
The ladies’s-specific fashions additionally get completely different paint schemes.
Younger Hero mannequin
The Neuron can also be provided in a Younger Hero mannequin. These match riders all the way down to 144cm (4ft 8in) and the suspension is tuned for weights as little as 30kg.
These bikes use extra-small and extra-extra-small body sizes with smaller 650b wheels, shorter 152mm cranks lengths and narrower 700mm handlebar widths.
Nevertheless, they hold all the identical body particulars and tech because the full-size bikes. So, younger rippers ought to be capable to really feel completely comfy on bikes constructed to go well with their wants.
Vary and pricing data
The brand new Canyon Neuron vary includes 11 fashions. This consists of the three girls’s-specific bikes and the brand new Younger Hero.
Additional worldwide pricing is TBC.
Canyon Neuron CF LTD
- Body: Carbon fibre, 130mm journey
- Shock: Fox Float DPS Manufacturing facility
- Fork: Fox 34 Manufacturing facility, 140mm journey
- Wheels: DT Swiss XMC 1200
- Drivetrain: SRAM X01 AXS Eagle
- Brakes: SRAM Code RSC, 200/180mm rotors
- Sizes: XS-XL
- Value: £5,749 / €5,999
Canyon Neuron CF 9 SL
- Body: Carbon fibre, 130mm journey
- Shock: Fox Float DPS Manufacturing facility
- Fork: Fox 34 Manufacturing facility, 140mm journey
- Wheels: DT Swiss XMC 1501
- Drivetrain: SRAM GX AXS Eagle
- Brakes: SRAM Code RSC 200/180mm rotors
- Sizes: XS-XL
- Value: £4,799 / €4,999
Canyon Neuron CF 9
- Body: Carbon fibre, 130mm journey
- Shock: Fox Float DPS Efficiency
- Fork: Fox 34 Efficiency Elite, 140mm journey
- Wheels: DT Swiss XMC 1700
- Drivetrain: Shimano XT 1×12
- Sizes: XS-XL
- Value: £3,849 / €3,999
Canyon Neuron CF 8 / WMN
- Body: Carbon fibre, 130mm journey
- Shock: Fox Float DPS Efficiency
- Fork: Fox 34 Efficiency, 140mm journey
- Wheels: DT Swiss XM 1700
- Drivetrain: Shimano SLX 1×12
- Sizes: XS-XL / WMN XS-M
- Value: £2,899 / €2,999
Canyon Neuron 7 / WMN
- Body: Aluminium, 130mm journey
- Shock: Fox Float DPS Efficiency
- Fork: Fox 34 Efficiency, 140mm journey
- Wheels: DT Swiss XM 1700
- Drivetrain: Shimano SLX 1×12
- Sizes: XS-XL / WMN XS-M
- Value: £2,599 / €2,699
Canyon Neuron 6 / WMN
- Body: Aluminium, 130mm journey
- Shock: Fox Float DPS Efficiency
- Fork: Fox 34 Rhythm, 140mm journey
- Wheels: DT Swiss LN AM
- Drivetrain: Shimano SLX 1×12
- Sizes: XS-XL / WMN XS-M
- Value: £2,249 / €2,299
Canyon Neuron 5
- Body: Aluminium, 130mm journey
- Shock: RockShox Deluxe Choose+
- Fork: RockShox Recon Silver, 140mm journey
- Wheels: Iridium / Shimano MT400/MT410
- Drivetrain: Shimano Deore 1×12
- Sizes: XS-XL
- Value: £1,849 / €1,899
Canyon Neuron Younger Hero
- Body: Aluminium, 130mm journey
- Shock: Manitou Mara IL
- Fork: Manitou Machete Comp, 130mm journey
- Wheels: Shimano MT400, 650b
- Drivetrain: Shimano SLX 1×12
- Brakes: Tektro child’s brakes, 180mm rotors
- Sizes: 2XS – XS
- Value: £1,499 / €1,599