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grail-al-7-0_2370_gn-bk_P5Canyon announces that the award-winning Grail AL is back in stock, with new colours and components for 2020
This article includes paid promotion on behalf of Canyon
If you're after a super versatile and affordable gravel bike, then Canyon's Grail AL is without doubt up there with the very best... and from today it's back in stock on Canyon's UK website with fresh colours, graphics and more component choices for 2020!
Review: Canyon Grail AL 7.0
Review: Canyon Grail CF SL 8.0 SL
While the Grail CF SL with a carbon frame comes with Canyon's intriguing-looking 'hoverbar' with its double-decking design, the Grail AL keeps things simpler with a more traditional Canyon alloy drop bar. The frame is sturdy and lightweight 6061 aluminium paired with a carbon fork, and all five bikes in the range have hydraulic disc brakes for the very best in stopping power.
It's a super durable and versatile bike that is just as adept commuting on the tarmac as it is on bikepacking adventures, as noted by David in the video below and in his full review of the Grail AL 7.0 on our sister site off.road.cc.
The Grail AL comes in five different models for 2020, with the top spec AL 7.0 coming equipped with SRAM Rival 1x for a simplistic set-up that will take you far and wide on your off-road adventures.
The most affordable AL 6.0 features Shimano's GRX gravel-specific groupset, and it also comes in a women-specific version. The colourways are Rosewood Red or Flat Green for the Grail WMN AL models, and Solid Silver or Flat Green for the Grail AL. All models come with confidence-inspiring Schwalbe 40 mm G-One Bite tyres paired with gravel-specific wide rims from DT Swiss, both tubeless-ready should you wish to further boost your puncture protection.
All bikes in the new range are available now - head over to Canyon's website to browse your options!
Arriving at road.cc in 2017 via 220 Triathlon Magazine, Jack dipped his toe in most jobs on the site and over at eBikeTips before being named the new editor of road.cc in 2020, much to his surprise. His cycling life began during his students days, when he cobbled together a few hundred quid off the back of a hard winter selling hats (long story) and bought his first road bike - a Trek 1.1 that was quickly relegated to winter steed, before it was sadly pinched a few years later. Creatively replacing it with a Trek 1.2, Jack mostly rides this bike around local cycle paths nowadays, but when he wants to get the racer out and be competitive his preferred events are time trials, sportives, triathlons and pogo sticking - the latter being another long story.
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If the issue is dooring, surely the solution is simple - just change the mode of entry: ...and exit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY8zxRjOuak
- bobbypuk 24 min 13 sec ago
They have too much stock and not enough people buying? They could always try lowering some prices.
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This topic is one focus of a concerted Denial of Sense attack on the site by obvious malicious accounts. Fortunately, most of them seem likely to...
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Exactly. Road riding is a white male dominated sport so the BCN are an advocacy group to try and change that. There are a number of barriers (and a...
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I'm in the same sort of area as you, and that does seem to be true. I suspect the split might be more due to nationality/immigration status than...
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And that is why you don't see recumbents in these events - the early designs put the top of your socks outside the height limits!
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Bonus info - not that this changes "but this is what I see on my journeys" or "it feels much worse!":...
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Good in principle but not much help when most of the crashes we read about are in urban areas, and surprisingly often on residential streets.
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In our house we have a saying when it comes to industry pricing, simply '...because cycling innit?' No other justification required.
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Having the UAE host COP28 is a bit like having [insert any 70s BBC DJ here] babysit your kids.
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To be fair to Canyon, I've never had any creaking issues with my Endurace though I was quite expecting to.
I've always previously used Wheels Manufacturing and Praxis adaptors to assuage the same fear.
But it's got a bloody press fit BB! Why Canyon Why? So Arkose goes back to the top of the budget wish list for me. I know I keep seeing comments in reviews of "and no issue during the test from the PF BB" but I just don't trust them and anyway threaded BB will always be easier for home maintenance IMHO.