I have been doing my best to give this bike a good work over since July. That has mainly meant a lot of summer rides in Whistler both in and out of the park and a trip up to the Panorama bike park. For the fall and winter season that has meant a lot of days on Cypress, Fromme and Seymour in North Vancouver. The riding here recently has included a lot of wet, rough rides that are not particularly nice to a bike.

The CFR 9.0 is a high end carbon Enduro bike. 170mm of front travel and 150mm of rear travel. CFR stands for Canyon Factory Racing to help drive home the point. The CFR 9.0 Team is the closest you can get to riding Florian Nicolai’s bike on which he placed second to Sam Hill for the 2019 EWS overall. Canyon also placed first in the overall team rankings.

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