You know any bike brand whose logo is an anodized metal skull is out to build bikes that maul downhills, and the Riot fully delivered on expectations. Tester Branham Snyder, finding no issues. Point being, you will not be suffering, and in fact will be suffering much less so than you imagined after a first glance at the Riot's monster truck aesthetics. The suspension felt efficient, there wasn't much pedal bob, and overall, we felt we were making the most of lugging a downhill monster up to the top of the roller coaster. Its intentions (take me downhill!) are clear, but the Riot still climbs to the top of the roller coaster just fine. A burly aluminum frame with the monster Cane Creek rear shock screams "let your balls drop!!", but despite the smaller cassette (keep in mind Canfield sells frames only, but will be selling fully build kits soon), the Riot actually spun up climbs surprisingly well. It's not impossible to figure out that the Riot is not built to climb like a goat. It's a brawler on the downs, but can earn its way up. Usually finding that "Instant Center," and keeping the bike supple while still an efficient pedaling rig, means setting the shock at a specific sag, but CBF is supposed to perform similarly whether you set a deeper sag for a plusher ride (i.e., sit deeper in the travel when you first hop on the bike) or whether you pump up the shock to make it stiffer, lessening the sag. Canfield claims CBF is "the most efficient yet active pedaling platform possible, completely independent of sag, travel and both drivetrain and braking forces."ĬBF™ is supposed to minimize chain growth, minimize interruption to the pedal stroke, minimize brake jack, and, ya know, solve all your relationship problems and consolidate your debt. Even though the specs we had on our factory tester included an old school 12-36 tooth cassette, I could still keep up on climbs with the guys running 10-42 or even SRAM's Eagle 10-50 12-speed granny-gear-so-big-you-could-walk-faster cassette.ĬBF™ (Canfield Balance Formula) design utilizes the parallel link design (blue piece in the graphic above) that Canfield Brothers has been refining since the late ‘90s, CBF™ “balances” driveline forces by pointing them through the Center of Curvature (which the formula focuses in a very finite space on top of the chainring, while on most suspensions it migrates over an extremely large area) and into the Instant Center throughout the entire range of travel. I personally thought that it also climbed well. The air is thin and the hill just keeps going UP, damnit! Ryan Dunfee photo. "Really felt comfortable just letting it go felt really plush and steady." Many of our testers commented on how well this thing descended. For what it's worth, the website says you can run it with a 35mm (internal) rim and a 2.8" tire. That's to be expected given Canfield's pedigree. The Riot has 140mm of travel, which was a bit longer-legged than some of the other niners in our test.
With 140mm up front and 140mm in the back, the Riot's suspension has basically as much travel as you could want before a 29'er starts losing serious playfulness. The Riot boasted the shortest chainstays of any bike in the test, in any wheel size, at 16.3", allowing us to whip that thing back and forth with no consequences. The feeling, no matter how grin-inducingly beat up the natural singletrack in the Big Sky Bike Park was, was akin to what Dunfee considered a feeling of "Netflix and chill." I don't know how Ryan Dunfee did it, but he nailed the CCDB tune on the first try out (he might have started with the base tune on the site and firmed it up a bit), leaving us to just bomb around on that thing the whole week without a tweak. We had the good fortune to ride a Canfield Riot at TGR's Big Sky Bike Test. The Riot was a very plush brawler with the capable Cane Creek DB handling shock duties.
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