2011 Canyon Ultimate CF SLX riding – 1 Rim brakes, mechanical shifting, external cables… our first Bike of the Year was very different from most of the contenders fighting it out for the 2024-25 top spot, although the 2011 Canyon Ultimate CF SLX was extraordinarily impressive for its time.
We’re currently putting together the road.cc Recommends awards for 2024-25 – which we’ll run next month – and that got us thinking back to our first Bike of the Year. Our awards have evolved massively over the years, but the basic concept has remained the same throughout; we look back at everything we’ve reviewed over the previous 12 months and pick our favourite products based on performance and value. That’s it. Well, it’s complicated by the fact that we review hundreds of products here every year, so going through everything and making the right decisions is a monumental undertaking, but the idea is pretty straightforward. Canyon Ultimate CF SLX 9 full bike We published our first road.cc Bikes of the Year Top 10 on 1st January 2012, and it covered everything we’d reviewed in the 2011 calendar year. Plenty of big-name brands were represented, including Trek, Cannondale, and Kinesis, but it was the £2,619 Canyon Ultimate CF SLX 8.0 that secured the top spot. It was very much a product of its time.
These days, Canyon divides its road bikes into three platforms: the aero Aeroad (introduced in 2010), the endurance-focused Endurace (introduced in 2014), and the lightweight Ultimate. The first […]
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