Need some help from people who wrench on bikes

I blew up my headset in my 2022 canyon torque cf7 yesterday. I am looking to see if anyone knows of a aftermarket headset that would work in this bike. I was going to order one through canyon but am worried about the import fees and to be honest i dont have much faith in their in house brand lol.


The thing is canyon puts these ridiculous spacers and plastic pieces on there bikes so i need to figure out how i can make this work

I was looking on some forums and people said you could make a cane creek or a wolftooth work but im unsure of which one to get cause i have no clue what im doing and what i need.

If any of you could help a confused fella out and give me a bit of insight id be stoked.

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Can’t help but can bitch about proprietary parts.

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Even worse because canyons direct to consumer. Never again lol. Paying to have sub par parts shipped from germany noooooo thank you.

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But it’s German quality engineering!!!

I bet we can just convert it to a normal headset and round spacers, maybe have to keep the bottom cap/ cover piece.

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This is how I would go about it. I have a weird headset/stem combo like this with internal routing on my Orbea gravel bike. Works great there, but I’d never want it on my MTB.

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@JOsh is there an aluminum cup pressed in the frame for the bearing to sit in? If so I would wager you need a ZS44 top headset. More photos would be helpful to try to identify. Send me a PM if you want to troubleshoot more.

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Oh man. I recently serviced a fork on an orbea xc bike with that new head tube routing. What a pile of hot garbage that is to try and hold all of the pieces together. I will be servicing the forks on the bikes next time, or charging extra for the faffing about. Just like those Scott’s with the hidden shock. Might look cool, but they are not a pleasant chassis to wrench on, you have to remove the cranks to remove the shock. This hidden cable crap is getting out of hand. But the head tube stuff takes the cake as the dumbest.

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Want to upset a bike shop, walk in and make fun of it when they try to use it as a selling point.

Really fun to just ask well what makes it better? (They don’t have an answer)

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Could you not just slam the stem one spacer, put a regular spacer above the stem?

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I had some weird (albeit slick looking) proprietary spacers on my Genius and when I had some issues with the stock headset they guys at Long Alley just put in a regular headset and regular spacers—it’s been absolutely fine for almost two years now.

Did a quick search on Reddit & Canyon’s site and looks like you need these parts at least:
1x ACROS upper bearing 1 1/4 (44x35x5,5mm)
1x ACROS lower bearing 1 1/4 (44x33x6mm)
1x ACROS Compression ring 1 1/4

I think regular spacers would fit, and you should be able to reuse your top cap.

Here’s a couple links that might help:
https://www.reddit.com/r/CanyonBikes/comments/1dxsva3/canyon_headset_bearings_in_the_us/

Best of luck with the fix!

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Thanks guys, @a.mart came to the rescue and was able to rig up a cane creek to it.

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Heck yeah!

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The issue is this bike uses a plastic wedge to Center the steer tube in the bearing and that was shattered because it’s taking on massive loads. Terrible design on a long travel bike. And the plastic wedge had gaps in the sides because canyon uses this on bikes with headset routed cables as well. Had it been solid it may have held up. Also, only canyon uses this size integrated headset and no one else makes one to fit. So it required a bunch of parts and faffing about and trial and error, but we got it sorted.

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