Canyon have had a busy winter having signed two of the most marketable riders in mountain biking, launched the Collective and mislaid all their vowels. On top of that, it looks like they have been beavering away designing a new downhill bike too.
The Sender platform was first released in 2016 and downhill has changed a lot in the four years since then. The current Sender platform is in desperate need for an update as it only runs 27.5″ wheels and still uses Imperial standards on its shocks. It was possible to bodge 29″ wheels into the old Sender if you put the chainstays into their longest setting, as Magnus Manson was doing last year, but as we’ve seen from other brands, a bodge job is not going to be as fast as a platform designed around bigger wheels.
However, Canyon looks to be updating the Sender platform for 2020 and we’ve now seen a combination of spy shots and social media posts that make it look completely different to the current platform. Here’s what we know so far.
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