Canyon Ultimate WMN CF SLX Disc 9.0 Team CSR 2017

As part of our women's special, we take a look at the Canyon Ultimate WMN CF SLX Disc 9.0 Team CSR 2017

Canyon Ultimate WMN CF SLX Disc 9.0 Team CSR 2017 road bike

Canyon Ultimate WMN CF SLX Disc 9.0 Team CSR 2017 road bike

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Developed in collaboration with the Canyon-SRAM Racing Team, the range-topping Canyon Ultimate WMN CF SLX Disc 9.0 Team CSR is an out-and-out thoroughbred road race bike, coming equipped with wireless SRAM Red eTap Hydro groupset, deep-section carbon wheels and integrated carbon bar and stem cockpit.

Innovatively, this disc-brake bike has been specifically designed for female riders, engineered around size XS, which according to Canyon’s data is the size most required by women cyclists. With two sizes sitting either side of XS, the range now caters for riders that measure from just shy of five feet, all the way up to 6ft 1in.

The Canyon Ultimate uses the slimmer tubing profiles of the women-specific engineering, allowing the use of less frame material, making it lighter and more aero than the male-equivalent Ultimate CF SLX Disc and enabling riders on the two smallest sizes to benefit from enhanced handling, thanks to 650b (27.5in) wheels.

The inclusion of smaller than standard wheels on the 3XS and 2XS sizes ensures that the entire range of the Ultimate WMN CF SLX Disc delivers crisp, swift and responsive handling by maintaining a steep head angle, short wheelbase and reducing the tyre-to-road contact patch (trail).

To counter the smaller wheels, these two models also come equipped with semi-compact, instead of a compact chainset, to give the same effective gear range on the road.

Canyon’s support for the women’s pro peloton is unwavering, and the 2018 model will be launched at the Canyon-SRAM training camp at the end of November, where we are likely to see subtle spec updates, and a new team paint design, and with the Ultimate WMN CF range starting at just £1,199, there’ll be something for everyone to be excited about.

Price: £5,499 (2017 edition)

Frame: Ultimate WMN CF SLX

Fork: Canyon One One Four SLX Disc

Size range: 3XS-M

Weight: 6.78kg

Groupset: SRAM Red eTap, 11-speed

Gear ratios: 50/34, 11-30

Wheels: Reynolds Assault LE Disc Carbon

Tyres: Schwalbe Pro One

Brakes: SRAM Red eTap HRD

Bar and stem: Canyon H31 Ergocockpit CF

Seatpost: Canyon S13 VCLS CF

Saddle: Selle Italia SLS Lady Flow

Distributor: www.canyon.com

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Hannah Bussey

Hannah is Cycling Weekly’s longest-serving tech writer, having started with the magazine back in 2011. She has covered all things technical for both print and digital over multiple seasons representing CW at spring Classics, and Grand Tours and all races in between.


Hannah was a successful road and track racer herself, competing in UCI races all over Europe as well as in China, Pakistan and New Zealand.


For fun, she's ridden LEJOG unaided, a lap of Majorca in a day, won a 24-hour mountain bike race and tackled famous mountain passes in the French Alps, Pyrenees, Dolomites and Himalayas. 


She lives just outside the Peak District National Park near Manchester UK with her partner, daughter and a small but beautifully formed bike collection.