Canyon Torque 29 CF 9 review: big travel agility, big grins

The Canyon Torque 29 CF 9 is a big travel bike that won’t sterilise the trails. Heaps of fun from the trail to the race tape, in one package.

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Canyon Torque 29 CF 9 review: big travel agility, big grins

Well done on your podium. Enjoyed the review and it has certainly been a bike on my shortlist before. I think you should get it….It would be interesting to read more of your exploits on a bike that you aren’t naturally drawn too!

Wheels are DT Swiss FR 560 240 EXPs – aluminium rims with 30mm internal width, and you get some reasonable tyres in the form of a 2.4in Maxxis Minion DHR 2 3C MaxxTerra out the back and a Maxxis Assegai 3C MaxxGrip up front.

Does it not feel sluggish with all that rubber? Great downhill I’m sure, but unless all your riding is bike park / you’re prodigiously strong / you don’t mind climbing like a snail / have a motor fitted, it sounds a bit much. It would be interesting to know how it feels with something a bit faster, but still grippy, fitted.

Does it not feel sluggish with all that rubber?

I was on a BasqueMTB trip with someone on one of these (which was new to him) in the very cool mango colour and he was loving it. Frame detailing/construction was all very nice.

But he said the wheels it came with were definite park wheels – a lighter set of rims and hubs made it a lot more lively (and I’m geussing the rubber won’t have helped either).