Canyon launch the Endurace:ON AL, their first e-road bike, at groundbreaking £2,799 price point

More motor use equals less range.
I'd rather have the ability to save power by reducing the gears first and keeping the range, but that's just me (and it's why I got a 2 chainring bike)

Agreed. The lowest gear on this isn't even that low - 48-42 is a gear ratio of 1.14. 90rpm equates to about 13.3km/h. That's actually marginally steeper than the lowest gear on my race bike (with a 52/36 chainset and 11-32 cassette, where the 36-32 combination gives a gear ratio of 1.13 which equates to 13.1km/h at 90rpm)

I thought it was just a firmware update, but you speak of "the new version of the fazua motor". Was that just a shorthand, or have I missed something?

I don't know what the change was - I've only got to ride the 'new' version (and even then not for that long). My normal cadence when cruising on the flat is 90-95rpm and the support from the motor felt great without me having to adjust my pedaling style. My first impressions were very good. 

The rear cassette is huge, even looks close to having a 1:1 gear

bigsy wrote:

The rear cassette is huge, even looks close to having a 1:1 gear

Personally, I'd rather have the option of a second chainring on the front, and maybe a 34 / 11 on the cassette to help with battery life over a long ride.

Few things are worse than worrying about if you are going to have enough power to get back home because you've used it all up earlier on climbing hills.

Even Fazua bikes aren't light (true, it's lighter than my Bosch powered Neo) and if you need assistance like I do, then that smaller ring makes all the difference in range.

I had a Hoy flat-bar roadbike that had fairly cheap SRAM X4 1x8 gearing with 48t up front and it would climb pretty much anything due to a huge sprocket on the cassette. 

Slightly gappy gears meant it wasn't perfect for cadence like a race bike... but I wasn't racing on it, so it didn't matter!

E-assist also makes gappy gears much less of an issue too.

Maybe because Fazua drives require ISIS cranksets, which are pretty rare these days. The only company that still makes good-quality doubles, as far as I know, are FSA, and probably not in the quantities and at a price that Canyon are looking for. Meanwhile, they've presumably got a load of the single-ring ones in stock from their other e-bikes.

I do wonder about the wisdom of putting the control unit on the downtube. Even classic shifters stuck out the sides so you could see them, and they didn't have information like battery charge to display. On a city bike maybe you could argue that most people would just stick it in one mode before starting off, but on a road bike it seems silly.

Seems a confused bike.  It's a road bike, with a gravel groupset, and gearing suitable for nipping to the shops. The odd position for the power controls throw more confusion in to the mix. If i had this amount of cash for a road or gravel bike I'd be looking at the ebikemotion Ribble offerings for the same price, they seem much more focused on road or gravel.

I dunno, as a proof of concept e-bike suitable for a wide range of uses, it's actually very good. Light gravel/towpath/fireroad use, pretty much any road biking, simple (single ring helps a lot with that) and then just use the motor.

The vast majority of gravel bikes come with single ring and if it's good enough for the far steeper and looser terrain of off-road then it'll get you up any hill you care to mention plus it's got a motor! You're supposed to use the gears and motor in conjunction...

The position of the control makes sense when you consider the mounting point of the motor - to put it on the top tube would mean significant extra wiring and it's not something that's designed to be changed every few minutes. Anyway, changing mode is no different to reaching down for a bottle.

I like it, it's smart and functional across a broad spectrum.