If you’ve been flicking through the pages of mbr for a few years you’ll remember the Torque as a 27.5in bike park machine with bottomless, sensitive, syrupy suspension. We couldn’t shut up about it, it won bike tests and even our Editor’s Choice award. The latest-gen bike builds on the small wheels and comes in pretty much any variation you want: 27.5in, 29er, mullet, full carbon frame, alloy, coil shock, air-sprung… e-bike even.
Canyon also makes two other bikes you could race enduro on, the Spectral and the Strive, and that puts it in a different league to YT in terms of its product range and potentially its buying power for components. Whether that makes it a better bike remains to be seen.
The Torque Mullet AL 6 is undeniably great value, and if we judged our bike tests via spreadsheets alone it
