Back in 2018, when the Canyon Grail was born, gravel bikes were expected to do a bit of everything. The discipline had yet to fully develop and riders tended to have one bike for all eventualities. The original Grail aimed to tick all those boxes, but the second generation’s focus is all about performance.
‘The Grail 2.0 is a race bike,’ says design engineer Matthias Bensolt. ‘Now that the category has split into adventure riding and performance riding, we’ve been able to make this bike all about
