Canyon's New Grail CFR Is the Aeroad of Gravel Bikes
If you’ve been paying attention to Canyon’s releases over the past year, there’s a pattern worth noting. The Aeroad CFR established the template — deep aero tubes, integrated cockpit, dropped seatstays, built purely for speed. Then last month the Endurace CFR showed up and took that same design language, added a little more tire clearance, and called it an endurance road bike. We actually covered that one here on Mizubikes. Now at The Traka in Girona this week, Canyon’s new team — the Canyon x DT Swiss All-Terrain Racing squad — showed up to race on what appears to be an unreleased Grail CFR, and it’s exactly what you’d expect if you’ve been following the thread: Aeroad DNA, pushed all the way into gravel. ...