What Goes Into Designing The Future of eBikes?

Last week Canyon launched their latest eBike, the Canyon Spectral:ON. The team at Canyon have worked tirelessly to take eBikes to the next level. Removing range anxiety with an incredible 900Wh battery, whilst creating a bike that’s lively and fun to ride on the trails. Today we’re joined by Patrick Schmidt and Christian Parmenter from Canyon’s eBike team, to find out what it takes to produce a cutting edge eBike. We’ll be hearing about the level of detail they went into to deliver something that truly pushes the boundaries of what an eBike can do. Such as developing a brand new battery system, reducing frame weight and designing a kinematic that enables the bike to feel lively on the trail. It was super interesting to chat with Patrick and Christian about this, as eBike design has some really different and unique challenges. So sit back, hit play and listen to this episode with Patrick and Christian. You can check out the new Spectral:ON range over at canyon.com. Supporting Partners Magura MAGURA is not only providing riders like Loic Bruni, Finn Illes and Danny Hart with the incredible braking performance that they need to race at the top level. They also make a setup that's still really powerful, but much more affordable. Their 4-piston MT5 brake offers an unbeatable performance to price ratio at just 100EURO. That's half the price of it's big brother the MT7. However, the MT5 still offers nearly the same stability and power. Also with the MT5 you get to benefit from the MAGURA #customizeyourbrake program. That means you can choose from three different lever shapes, four different rotors and four pad compounds to adjust the brake exactly to your needs and preferences when it comes to ergonomics, stability and power. If you are looking for a brake upgrade for the season, then get yourself more control with MAGURA's MT brake range. Head to magura.com to find out more. Canyon Canyon have just launched their new Spectral:ON featuring a range anxiety busting 900wH battery and a poppy lively ride feel that is super engaging to ride. What Canyon has achieved with this bike has really blown me away and the engineering and design really is next level. As a Downtime listener you can get free Bike Guard on any Spectral:ON orders using the code FUN-ON-2022 at the checkout over on canyon.com. This voucher code is valid online between 12 April 2022, 00:01 CET and 3 May 2022, 23:59 CET. The code applies a free Bike Guard to Spectral:ON bike orders. It cannot be redeemed in conjunction with any other discount code and excludes Factory Outlet bikes and fr...