{"id":32872,"date":"2026-05-11T11:23:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T15:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.opusbike.com\/?p=32872"},"modified":"2026-05-11T13:00:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:00:54","slug":"canadian-cycling-reviews-the-fortitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.opusbike.com\/en\/articles\/canadian-cycling-reviews-the-fortitude\/","title":{"rendered":"CANADIAN CYCLING REVIEWS THE FORTITUDE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Matthew Pioro, editor at Canadian Cycling Magazine, had the chance to ride and review the Opus Fortitude 105 road bike this spring. Here&#8217;s his take:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-default has-medium-font-size\"><strong>&#8220;The Opus Fortitude is simply a great bike. It not only gets me excited to head out on rides, but I\u2019m energized by thoughts of all the rides that this model will inspire for new riders who are getting into our great sport.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>For more,<strong> check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclingmagazine.ca\/sections\/gear-reviews\/opus-fortitude-an-entry-level-road-bike-designed-really-well\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">full review<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cyclingmagazine.ca\/sections\/gear-reviews\/opus-fortitude-an-entry-level-road-bike-designed-really-well\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" data-id=\"31124\" 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Here&#8217;s his take: &#8220;The Opus Fortitude is simply a great bike. It not only gets me excited to head out on rides, but I\u2019m energized by thoughts of all the rides that this&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32898,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"11578,11575,6868,11671,11624,11638","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2329],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-products"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opusbike.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opusbike.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opusbike.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opusbike.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opusbike.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32872"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.opusbike.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32900,"href":"https:\/\/www.opusbike.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32872\/revisions\/32900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opusbike.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opusbike.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opusbike.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opusbike.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}