Canfield has to be one of the most esoteric brands out there, at least in this country. It would be pretty interesting to hear from anyone who has one on here.
Didn’t the Can Diggle evolve into ‘The One’? A quick image search shows that they look more or less the same.
I’ve only ever come across one UK owned and ridden Canfield before.The bike I saw was a ‘The One’, being ridden by a guy I shared a villa with in Morzine a few years back while on the annual week pilgrimage.
It was brand new to him and he’d bought it to scale down from a full on DH bike. It looked lovely in the metal. Sadly I never got to give it a try as our weights were so far apart I would have blown his suspension up! But sitting astride his medium, it did feel small compared to other company’s mediums (I was on a medium Demo 8 at the time).
In that first week on the bike he did say that it was a slightly quirky bike with unusual suspension kinematics; not remotely to suggest it didn’t work because he felt it did, just that it worked in a very different way to what he was used to and it took him the whole week to adjust. He had two decent stacks on it as well and even ended up having 9 stitches in his thigh as he toppled down a steep slope and landed badly on a broken branch! His mates did point out though that he was always accident prone and that this was just normal service for him!
Do they have a UK distributor? That would be the first thing to check so that you can establish where your support will be if something needs attention.
