After 3 years of development together with TQ, Canyon says their all-new Endurace:ONFly finally created an eRoad ebike that’s more than just something to help riders get to the top of the hill. Sticking with a lightweight road identity, they’ve combined TQ’s unique new HPR40 motor with a sleek all-road-ready carbon ebike chassis to recreate the feeling of a regular 7-8kg light road bike, but with a bit of boost that can take your rides longer and further than ever before.
Canyon Endurace:ONFly lightweight road ebike
Canyon calls the Endurace:ONFly the “Lightest, purest, and safest e-road bike“. It was developed to give road riders a taste of the real benefits that can be had with an ebike, but specifically tuned for their discipline, just like all of those high-power motors that are a blast to ride on eMTBs. So, together with a more compact, lighter, and self-learning TQ HPR40 motor, Canyon describes the new lightweight Endurace:ONFly as “the most natural looking, feeling and sounding e-road bike out there“.
What’s up with the new TQ HPR40 ebike drive?
The secret sauce to the tiny new TQ mid-drive HPR40 motor is that is does not disconnect your crankarms from chainrings like pretty much every other mid-drive motor. That allows TQ to fit a pretty standard compact road crankset with normal chainrings to this ebike. But it also means that you get proper performance shifting and the high efficiency power at low climbing speeds that only a mid-drive can deliver (unlike hub motors, which can only spin fast when the rear wheel is spinning quickly).
How does it ride? How far will it take you?
The new Canyon Endurace:ONFly certainly feels light out on the road (and gravel). Riding an ebike as light as 10.9kg (for the Ultegra spec) with any pedal assist is a completely different feel than most ebikes that often weigh 5kg more. But the most noticeable first impression was the different ride support dynamics of the new TQ HPR40 motor, which actually learns how you pedal when you start to ride. Since the crank arms are not decoupled from the motor like pretty much every other mid-drive ebike, when you stop pedaling, the motor needs to know to stop pedaling, too. The first few climbing pedal strokes were quite jumpy, as the ebike drive learned my cadence and riding style. It’s called overrun. But a few kms later it felt natural, and by the end of a 30km ride in the rain with 300m of climbing.
TQ describes it as a self-learning algorithm that leverages “high-precision sensor technology and intelligent software” to adapt individually to each rider for a natural road feel.
With its tiny motor tucked down below, and a 290Wh internal battery that’s so small the aero downtube doesn’t even look oversized, you might wonder what kind of range you’ll get out of this. But thanks to the efficiency of the TQ motor and the fact that riders will spend most of their time above the standard 25km/hr ebike limit, Canyon says most riders will get at least 65-100km of support and around 1300m of climbing out of the internal battery. Add on the external 160Wh TQ range extender bottle battery, and that climbing is likely going to total at least 2000m. I’ve had a chance for a first ride test on it, and those numbers seem to match with reality, even for my relatively heavy-for-a-roadie 85kg body weight, often the real limiter for ebike climbing range.
Tech details
- full carbon frame in two carbon spec variants
- base CF frame is still just 1350g thanks to light carbon, light hollow alloy insets, and advanced molding techniques
- upgraded Sub10 frame (kinda like a CFR model, but different) is lighter at <1000g with unique Neobeam Isogrid internal reinforcement, boosting tube stiffness 10-15% just from that internal ISOgrid structure
- no threads in the carbon frame, inserted (and replaceable) thread plates
- all-new full carbon fork
- powered by the all-new 200W TQ HPR40 lightweight ebike motor
- sleek bar end plug LED display is unobtrusive, but still gives you all the support & battery status info you need
- low-Q cranks with efficient power transfer and standard chainrings for top-tier front shifting
- features a rotated 290Wh battery pack inside the frame to allow for aero downtube shaping
- optional 160Wh external bottle battery can extend rides even further
- hidden integrated speed sensor in the dropouts so you’ll never have to deal with it (or know it exists)
- max 35mm tire clearance for all-road versatility (speced with 32mm tires, or even 28s on the Sub10 model)
- mounts for full coverage fenders, front & rear
- 180mm brakes front & rear
- integrated always-on Lupine SightStays tail lighting, with brake function
- 150lm LightSkin headlight
- 2 hrs of lights & shifting after the ebike battery is fully drained
- integrated controls with Shimano Di2 STI lever buttons
- GPS tracker good for 30days after the ebike battery is dead, 4 years free GPS tracking
- UDH
- fully integrated cable routing
- integrated, width-adjustable Canyon Pacebar handlebar at every price point
- includes Gear Groove mount integration for GPS mounts or even aerobar extensions
Canyon Endurace:ONFly – Pricing, options & availability
Canyon produces two different carbon layups of the new Endurace:ONFly for 4 complete build specs – 1 for all-around versatility, and 1 to shed a few hundred more grams to hit a target weight of just 9.88kg, as light as some normal metal road bikes. That also creates a wide price range, from just 4500€ with a mechanical 105 groupset, up to 9999€ at the top with full Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 integration.
For the time being, the new road ebike is available globally starting today. Except in the US, where Canyon expects they will add the Endurace:ONFly in the future.
