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Canyon’s new MPACT ebike is a wild concept I hope becomes reality

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Canyon has unveiled its latest future concept from the Innovation Lab – the MPACT.

The new concept bike follows on from the Future Mobility Concept in 2021, but Canyon’s latest look into the future of e-mobility appears much closer to reality than most concept bikes.

I, for one, would like to see this concept made a reality.

The modular frame is intended to be produced from recycled aluminium in Europe to maximise the bike’s sustainability.

It would be available in one size to suit riders between 1.55m and 1.99m.

Customisable concept

Canyon Future Mobility Concept
Canyon’s Future Mobility Concept from 2021. Canyon

The MPACT concept is designed to be customisable with artwork or decal kits on the single-spar frame.

It has modular luggage racks both front and rear, with the rear having a 25kg load capacity.

The MPACT looks far closer to reality than most concept bikes.

Canyon has designed the cockpit as a single piece, much like its line-up of road and commuter bikes.

However, the high-rise, almost cruiser-style bar has a boxy profile, like the frame itself, that gives the concept a fresh, bespoke look.

The brake hoses are routed through the handlebar and into the frame, as on Canyon’s production bikes.

The brakes on the concept are confirmed to be Canyon’s own GP0404 integrated units, as found on the current Precede: ON Comfort 7 urban electric bike.

The wheels use demountable discs that allow for lots of customisation options. Canyon

The wheels also offer the potential for customisation, with the mountable/dismountable discs on the concept much like hubcaps on a car. This opens up the possibility of custom artwork, colours and finishes for the customer, or even branding for fleet bikes.

Electric motor and drivetrain

The frame has integrated lights front and rear, powered by the battery. Canyon

The frame also houses the motor and battery, with the battery charged by lifting the seatpost and pulling it out from its top tube housing.

The motor battery also powers the large front light integrated into the head tube of the frame, with a matching rear light integrated into the frame.

The drivetrain looks to be a hub gear, combined with a Gates belt drive, something we’ve seen on Canyon’s value-packed Comfort 7 commuter bike.

Will it get made?

BikeRadar's Bike of the Week Canyon Precede ON CF9
The concept has a similar appearance to the Precede:ON CF 9. Russel Burton / Immediate Media

This concept shares some of its design language with bikes such as Canyon’s innovative Precede:ON CF 9 commuter.

That said, there’s no commitment that the Canyon Innovation Lab concept bike will go into series production. If it does, the guide price would be under €3,000. 

Canyon told us: “It’s different enough that we thought we’d canvas opinions from our audience to ask if we should bring it out.”

Let us know what you think of the MPACT in the comments.

Orange Pi RV2 Benchmarks: The Most Performant RISC-V Board For Less Than $100 With 8 Cores + 8GB RAM

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Earlier this month Canonical announced Ubuntu Linux support for the Orange Pi RV2 as a low-cost RISC-V developer board. The Orange Pi RV2 with eight RISC-V cores and 8GB of RAM costs just around $64 USD. The price point and specs were interesting that I ordered one and have been running performance benchmarks on it since for seeing how capable this is as finally an interesting, low-cost and readily available RISC-V board.

How To Set Color in Bash Script

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Setting colors in your Bash scripts can significantly enhance the visual output, making it easier for users to follow along. In this article, we will explore how to set different colors in your Bash scripts to highlight information, errors, or simply to beautify the console output.

Instagram Goes Gunning For TikTok Creators With Its Own CapCut Rival

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Instagram Goes Gunning For TikTok Creators With Its Own CapCut Rival
TikTok is the envy of every social media company. Its success has led to heavyweights in the space to borrow heavily from TikTok’s design and features in hopes of stealing away users. Meta’s latest attempt is a video editing app aimed at creators, which will compete directly with TikTok’s CapCut.

The new app, dubbed Edits, will enable content

Linux 6.15 Lands Fix For “3x Performance Regression” Affecting Nginx & Other Software

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The Linux 6.15 kernel has just merged a fix for the big performance regression I spotlighted yesterday on Phoronix with a huge hit to the Nginx HTTPS web server performance that could see a 3x regression from the in-development Linux 6.15 kernel code. It turns out other workloads/applications also were negatively impacted by this regression. While a stumper at first even with the bisected commit, the issue was luckily resolved very quickly.

Sony PlayStation 6 Rumors Swirl: Here’s Everything We Know So Far

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Sony PlayStation 6 Rumors Swirl: Here's Everything We Know So Far
Sony’s Playstation 5 Pro is not even a year old, but rumors for the inevitable PlayStation 6 have already begun to swirl. What’s perhaps most interesting about this latest rumor, is that it suggests there will be a handheld, portable released alongside the standard console. With the popularity of handheld systems such as Nintendo’s Switch

Hisense’s New U8 Mini LED TVs Up To 100″ Are Beauties, Some Are Already On Sale

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Hisense's New U8 Mini LED TVs Up To 100
It’s starting to feel like there’s a new TV lineup being launched each day. That makes it hard to keep up with fast-expanding field of options, but it’s also a good thing, in that the rapid release schedule by so many players leads to fierce pricing competition. Enter Hisense and its new U8 series available in a range of sizes from 55 inches

[$] VFS write barriers

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In the filesystem track at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory
Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF), Amir Goldstein wanted to resume
discussing
a feature that he had briefly introduced at the end of a 2023 summit session: filesystem “write
barriers”. The idea is to have an operation that would wait for any
in-flight write()
system calls, but not block any new write() calls as bigger
hammers, such as freezing the filesystem,
would do. His prototype implementation is used by a hierarchical
storage management (HSM) system to create a crash-consistent
change log, but there may be other use cases to consider. He wanted
to discuss implementation options and the possibility of providing an
API for user-space applications.

What is Docker Pull Command?

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The Docker pull command is one of the essential commands that allows users to download container images from a registry to their local machine. This command is often the first step in the container deployment workflow, enabling developers to retrieve pre-built images before running containers. As part of the core set of Docker basic commands, understanding how to effectively use the docker pull command is essential for anyone working with containerized applications.

Apple’s iPhone 17 Air Looks Incredibly Svelte In Multiple Hands-On Videos

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Apple's iPhone 17 Air Looks Incredibly Svelte In Multiple Hands-On Videos
A popular tech leaker just dropped a video of a dummy Apple iPhone 17 Air being handled and admired by people at a phone store. The highly-anticipated Air is seen placed side-by-side with an iPhone 16 Pro, showing off its skinny lines. Note that the phone isn’t operational, but is a full metal demo unit that’s probably used for accessory makers

How to Verify Debian and Ubuntu Packages Using MD5 Checksums

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Have you ever wondered why a given binary or package installed on your system does not work according to your expectations, meaning it does not function correctly as it is supposed to, or perhaps it cannot even start at all?

While downloading packages, you may face challenges such as unsteady network connections or unexpected power blackouts. This can result in the installation of a corrupted package.

Considering this an important factor in maintaining uncorrupted packages on your system, it is therefore a vital step to verify the files on the file system against the information stored in the package.

In this article, we will explain how to verify the MD5 checksums of installed packages on Debian-based distributions such as Ubuntu and Mint.

The post How to Verify Debian and Ubuntu Packages Using MD5 Checksums appeared first on Linux Today.

How to Install Apache Kafka on Ubuntu 24.04

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Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform used for building real-time data pipelines and applications. Originally developed by LinkedIn and now part of the Apache Software Foundation, Kafka is designed for high-throughput, low-latency, and fault-tolerant data processing across systems.

In this tutorial, we will show you the complete steps to install Apache Kafka on Ubuntu 24.04 OS.

The post How to Install Apache Kafka on Ubuntu 24.04 appeared first on Linux Today.

Switch 2 Preorder Mayhem Prompts Sincere Apology By Nintendo President

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Switch 2 Preorder Mayhem Prompts Sincere Apology By Nintendo President
Whatever preparations Nintendo made to bolster the number of Switch 2 consoles that will be available at launch, it’s not enough to meet demand. In a post on X from the official Nintendo account, company president Shuntaro Furukawa issued a lengthy apology for an expected shortfall of available units to satiate all of the lottery applications