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Canyon Releases Holy ‘Grail’ of Gravel Bikes

Canyon Releases Holy ‘Grail’ of Gravel Bikes

March 16, 2018, 1:08 pm By: Berne Broudy   The high-end, direct-to-consumer German bike brand built its first gravel bike, the Grail, as a single-bike quiver. That’s a bold claim, so I tested a pre-release model in Nice, France, for this review. Gravel bikes are a relatively new category. Compared to short-distance, race-oriented cyclocross bikes, the best gravel bikes have a geometry for riding long miles with heavy loads. Increasingly, riders who favor wanderlust over winning races are swapping their road bike for a wider-tire gravel bike.  What I found with Canyon’s Grail ($2,299–4,899) is that you can ditch the road bike altogether. This bike is...

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Diamondback lowers prices on premium road bikes

Diamondback lowers prices on premium road bikes

The brand also expanding free mobile delivery service and ReadyRide programs By RoadBikeReview   July 18, 2017 Diamondback, which launched a consumer direct sales program last year, has lowered prices on its premium road models, including the Podium Vitesse Disc pictured above. The new pricing means that bikes like the carbon fiber Diamondback Podium, equipped with Shimano Ultegra Di2 electric shifting and hydraulic disc brakes can be had for as little as $3499. Diamondback’s time trial bike, the Serios, featuring SRAM Force goes for $3459. The Podium and the Serios are the same frames that pro riders from Team Rally rode to several podiums...

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