CANYON TORQUE CF 8
£4,699 / 27.5in / canyon.com
Great bikes tend to stick in your mind; no matter how many years pass, you never forget that first descent when it really lights you up. For me and the Torque it was 18 months ago, swaddled in Gore-Tex, atop a Welsh mountain in a blizzard. That ride should have been horrible, but the old Torque was like a ray of sunshine through the snow, dazzling me with its brilliance. The bike was two years old even then, and now in 2021 it’s geriatric for an industry that brings out new models every couple of years. Sure, this is a new Torque for 2021 but the frame and suspension design hasn’t changed, Canyon has simply updated the suspension components and aspects of the specification. So in an
