CANYON TORQUE:ON 9

£5,799 / 27.5in / canyon.com

Canyon had to wait for Shimano’s new EP8 motor to arrive before it could release its latest e-bike, the Torque:ON. Wedded to Shimano for its power units, the faithful E8000 motor simply didn’t fulfil the brief, being too big and too heavy to allow Canyon’s engineers to design the bike exactly how they wanted it. Now at last though, with EP8 circulating like a vaccine, the Torque:ON is finally here, a 175mm-travel bike with 27.5in wheels and geometry straight off a downhill bike. So was it worth the wait? Before I answer that question, you’ll have to hold on once again while I run through the new bike’s details.

There’s no carbon option with the Torque:ON; the alloy frame helps keep the price