So this is another bike that I demo'd while at Crankworx. This is a 2017
Canyon Strive CF, it's a six inch travel enduro bike, and I actually had a lot of
fun with it, I thought it was actually really good. Alright trying out the Canyon Strive
CF enduro bike, let's see how this goes.
I really want to try Ninja Cougar here, this should be good for a Ninja
Cougar I think cuz it's smaller more nimble bikes six inch travel.
160mm of travel
Just got my photo taken, right on
I think this bike is definitely better for Ninja Cougar compared to that Trek Session
I was riding. oh yeah
I mean they're both the same wheel size 27.5 but, but yeah this bike is way...
whoa getting tired
...way more nimble for these tight turns, I was definitely railing those berms
way easier with this bike, no surprise though. Let's hit Ninja- er sorry Karate Monkey
hit my foot on the dirt
whoa oh yeah oh yeah dude
Railing those berms.
Huge hole!
This is a size small because they didn't have any
other size mediums left and Canyon does say that they tend to size the bikes a
little bit on the bigger side so size medium definitely would have been fine
for me. But unfortunately they had none available at the time so I just took a
size small, and to be honest with you it still felt quite good.
After looking at the geometry, size small was actually a little bit bigger than my current size
medium Norco Truax which is kind of interesting so I guess that's why I felt
quite at home on this bike
I quite enjoyed this bike quite a lot actually I have mostly all good things
to say about it I just really loved its it's nimble kind of nature its its
agility that it has I mean a six inch travel you know, trail bike, enduro bike
it actually felt very good. But now I'm not actually looking for a bike like
this I am in the market for a DH bike but I thought in addition to having a DH
bike something like this would be really fun to have on the side when I
can afford it that is. Felt good, this is the one by twelve a lot of gears there
it's not something I personally would need but I mean if that's what you do
I mean, a pretty solid bike
Nice suspension it definitely feels good
Oh getting a little loose, super dry so
don't want to go too crazy here, oh yeah
let's try Devils Club
flat corner, always feels bad. Just riding some sweet single track, the blues you
know Ninja Cougar, Karate Monkey, Samurai Pizza Cat were just a really good
fit for this bike and it was definitely a lot of fun now something that I've
been really noticing lately about my Norco Truax is that it is pretty small
and I've just been really feeling that more lately than ever before is just
like kind of how small my truax really is and then riding this bike as I
already said it's about the same kind of geometry as my truax, it felt pretty
natural for me and the people of the Canyon tents definitely recommended a
medium for me and I think that that's probably true but regardless it was
definitely a good bike and I was quite happy with how I rode with even the size small.
It feels fairly similar. Finish off with A-line. Let's hit some jumps
This section is so lame compared to what it used to be.
Let's hit some jumps
Getting a little rowdy,
doing some whips! Ya dude agility is so good on a bike
I hit that better than with the Trek Session
A little bit of brakes. Could have even gone faster
I just think that it would be a lot of fun just to have something really
smaller and lighter and nimble and just more playful, they're definitely fun
bikes to have. So at some point I'll probably get something like this
but for now I'm in the market for a DH bike and so that's what I'm going to be
getting first.
Just returning the bike