His review on the steering spring made me smile... how many ways could he say "it was awesome, as long as I removed it and threw it in the trash and put the blanking plate on". 😂
I've heard good things about K.I.S but I can see why some people wouldn't want to have it. As it is removable in this bike I really don't mind having it pre-installed.
I would hopee they would work on their frame strength and customer service/ warranty process. I have broken 3 frames and the last time they just sent me a frame and said figure it out. I still have 3 years on their warranty.
The cf8 has 160mm 150mm rear performance elite fox, 203mm front and back break rotors xm1700 dt swiss and weighs 31.50 pounds thats insane given its a 3600$ bike right now
@@danymops9240 you’re not wrong, although you seem to be referring to the 2023 Spectral. It has more travel front and rear then the new one but is lighter? Kinda unheard of nowadays.
@@michaelmicallef668 yes i was referring to that model i should have specified 2023 but yes i think its pretty awesome considering bikes with those specs and travel always weigh more than 32lbs normally
First of all, the new Spectral CF is unexpactedly heavy. The new CF 9 weights 666 grams (!!!!!) more, than the old CF8. No idea what caused that increase. Old had 160 / 150mm of travel, new 150/140 mm. Is it only me, or there´s anyone else thinking, that the old one was better?
K.I.S. do work, Canyon's new steering thing definitely helped me steer away from ever buying a Spectral. I guess this was one of the design goals with this brilliant system?
So in other world you gave us the most flip floppy answer ever. This didn’t tell us that much if you couldn’t spend enough time with it to figure the new system out. I appreciate your honesty hut how will you make a quality video to tell us about the bike if you couldn’t get to work it out and give us a better answer.
Adding 600g more weight to the frame makes no sense. Adding weight, complexity and price. The improvements in stearing would need to be huge in order to offset this. However, most of new innovations are not worth it in the start ( Electric gears, Hydraulic disc brakes on roadbikes, Carbon wheels, etc.) 5 years from now this might be game changer.
its just a spring that can be tightened or loosened easily and if it breaks the KIS is under lifetime warranty so they will send you a new one free if theres an issue
No, just…no. Centrifugal force keeps the front stable at speed, I think this is go8n* to be a Flex Stem innovation: steering damping or similar well be developed, but this is not it.
clearly over engineered in my opinion. it adds weight, and you can clearly ride without this. + personally I completely refuse to have any system messing up with my trajectory.
