Following up three brand-new eMTBs final week, Canyon is again once more with 3 virtually invisible upgrades to their fashionable Spectral:ON ebike that make it extra succesful, extra enjoyable to trip, and extra secure & safe. Greater, burlier forks, a extra highly effective motor, and an all-new Canyon App on your smartphone that mixes trip monitoring with anti-theft safety, whereas opening the door for extra good monitoring options in down the street.
2023 Canyon Spectral:ON all-mountain ebike
When Canyon launched the light-weight carbon Spectral:ON CFR final 12 months they set in movement an total modernization of their aggressive off-road mountain ebike household – rounded out final week by the all-new enduro Try:ON and freeride Torque:ON. However whereas the 2022 Spectral:ON bumped its rear-wheel journey as much as 155mm and boosted battery capacities as much as 900Wh, its forks stayed at 150mm.
We examined the small Spectral:ON CFR ebike (which is proscribed to a 720Wh inner battery) and got here away hoping for extra journey and extra confidence up entrance. And just a bit bit involved with Shimano EP8 motor rattle whereas coasting…
Properly for 2023, Canyon has addressed most of our considerations – with extra journey and an upgraded drive motor!
What’s new?
The newly up to date ebike will get bumped as much as eMTB-rated 160mm forks “for extra confidence and stability on aggressive trails” (on most fashions). The 2022 ebike was already technically rated for 160mm up entrance.
However now that the brand new Spectral:ONs come straight from Canyon that method, they’ll all profit from slacking out the headtube a couple of half a level – to 65°. Paired to 155mm out again, we really feel like this can be a higher stability for the all-mountain versatility of the Spectral:ON.
Then, it additionally will get upgraded to the newest Shimano EP8 collection EP801 motor – the identical one we examined with eMTB AutoShift & FreeShift, which curiously just isn’t included right here, although the Di2-equipped mannequin seems to have the {hardware} to make FreeShift work. Anyway, the brand new EP801 does ship a bit extra peak energy output at a claimed 600W (up from 500W for EP800). And as essential, it fortunately appears to eliminate the inner rattle that rattled us.
All-new GPS monitoring & smartphone Canyon App
However whereas the fork & motor updates enhance on what was already there, the brand new linked GPS tracker and companion Canyon App deliver out all-new performance, now tucked contained in the 2023 Spectral:ON. And it hints at what’s to come back from different Canyon bikes and ebikes sooner or later…
“We made the Canyon App to simplify and streamline each step of proudly owning and driving a Canyon, and to assist riders get essentially the most out of their bike – from day one, and for years to come back. Due to a spread of options that make each a part of increase, driving, sustaining, and parking up their Canyon bike joyful and easy.”
– Lionel Guicherd-Callin, World Director of Canyon Linked
The first new tech hidden contained in the Spectral:ON ebike is an onboard GPS monitoring and wi-fi communication chip, immediately powered by the system and never simply separated from the body & motor, even when the ebike’s battery is eliminated. Its major operate is the extra safety of anti-theft bike location monitoring – these top-tier ebikes can value over 10k€ in any case. However the important thing to its operate is an all-new Canyon App that holds many extra potentialities.
The brand new 2023 Canyon Spectral:ON is their first ebike (or bike) to get anti-theft GPS monitoring. However it additionally contains accelerometers on the ebike that may be triggered while you park and ‘nearly lock-up’, to inform you whether it is moved, then observe over longer distance if stolen.
Different useful Canyon App options embody:
- meeting information directions & movies to assist consumers unbox their new ebike and set it as much as trip shortly & simply,
- suspension setup & tuning guides created on your ebike with the suspension producer,
- easy upkeep guides to assist dwelling mechanics hold their ebike in prime form,
- a digital bike storage that shops your ebike’s key specs & geometry,
- full elements information to assist discover & change any a part of the bike it’s possible you’ll injury, and
- a spot to search out tales about Canyon athletes driving your ebike & related bikes
Additionally because of the open-ended performance a smartphone app can ship through over-the-air-updates, further Canyon App performance might be restricted solely by the creativeness and workload of Canyon’s new software program growth crew. One further function already deliberate for close to future roll-out can be fast & easy bike insurance coverage insurance policies (obtainable solely in some markets).
For a consumer-direct model like Canyon, it appears to make quite a lot of sense to supply an easy-to-use fashionable platform for them to speak essential info to their bike & ebike consumers, and to easily make it simpler for his or her end-users to get essentially the most out of their bike buy.
The Canyon app is free and obtainable on the Apple App Retailer and Google Play retailer now.
2023 Canyon Spectral:ON – New Colours & Specs
We’d already examined an all-black 2022 model, however now the 2023 fashions add extra coloration choices too relying in your spec alternative – like white, inexperienced, blue & greys. Once more there are 4 fashions that every one get the important thing motor & GPS monitoring replace – 2 with the highest CFR carbon body and a pair of with the extra reasonably priced CF carbon – plus the choice to spice up from a normal 720Wh battery to a much bigger 900Wh battery for 499€ further.
The 5000€ Spectral:ON CF 7 is essentially the most reasonably priced carbon-framed all-mountain ebike, with a Shimano Deore 1×12 groupset and RockShox Lyric Base / Deluxe Choose R suspension. A 6000€ Spectral:ON CF 8 steps it as much as SLX and Fox 36 Rhythm / Float X Efficiency spec.
With the lighter carbon body, the 9500€ Spectral:ON CFR with Fox Manufacturing facility suspension, an in any other case full XTR groupset paired to XT Di2 digital shifting, and Reynolds TR 309E carbon wheels.
And on the prime, solely the 12,000€ Spectral:ON CFR LTD construct sticks with the shorter 150mm RockShox Lyric fork journey, pairing computerized Flight Attendant Final suspension management with a brand new SRAM XX1 AXS Eagle direct mount transmission.
The entire newly up to date 2023 Spectral:ON ebikes can be found in most markets now. For now, solely a $5600 model of the Spectral:ON CF8 with the brand new updates will make its option to the US, later this 12 months.
