A video on social media platform Threads shows Canyon-sponsored athlete Mateu Cavallé riding a new gravel bike, complete with a matching Canyon-branded suspension fork.
Until now, only the Grizl – Canyon’s adventure-focused bike – was available with a suspension fork. The Grail – the brand’s gravel race bike – hasn’t been available with a suspension fork, with geometry that wasn’t corrected for a longer fork.
The new bike looks closer to a Grail – in fact, it doesn’t appear to be a radical departure from the existing bike.
Up-front, the new bike appears to have fully internal routing compared to the current Grail’s design, where it runs under the stem and into the head tube. That suggests Canyon may have tweaked the aerodynamics of the Unbound-winning bike . Big tyre clearances?
The new bike is using Zipp’s super-wide 303 XPLR wheels with what looks like a 45mm tyre. It also looks likely that Canyon has upped the tyre clearances on the new bike. Cavallé’s bike is set up with Zipp’s super-wide 303 XPLR wheelset, with what looks to be the Goodyear/Zipp collaboration tyre in its Inter version.
This is a 45mm-wide tyre, but the current Grail has a more modest clearance of 42mm. Exclusive suspension
Gravel bike suspension forks are becoming more common. Rumours were abound last year that DT Swiss was working on a gravel suspension fork .Given that most of the major suspension players – including Fox, RockShox, Cane Creek, Cannondale, Suntour, MRP, KS and Lauf – have something in this […]
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