Grizl CF SL 6 AXS 3500KM honest review

Got this beatiful and what soon after proved to be quite the machine just after christmas last year 27.12.2023 to be exact. It is my first real bike and I had basically no previous experience of cycling as a hobby.

I've ridden 3464km after that date and it has been a fucking awesome bike. First time I saw it on canyon.com I thought that this is the best value bike out there, I still haven't found a bike that would offer so much for so less.

It survived the Finnish winter (see photos in comments), it survived bikepacking trips with a lot of stuff on it, it survived a lot of real single track beating (see youtube link), it survived a lot of road cycling and a lot more to come.

However as I am not paid to write this I do have some cons:

• Stock tires are probably the cheapest and shittiest gravel tires there are, after I got rid of the studded winter tyres and installed them tubeless I got in total 8 flats. There is very minimal puncture protection if anything at all.

• Saddle is really sticky, heavy and uncomfortable. Looks cool though. Changed it for a RYET one for like 25€.

• AXS does not like -20 celcius, I had to change the batteries on both of my levers twice during a 2 month period, but they are like 2€ 4 pairs so not a biggie. Thank god for wahoo notifications, I would have never noticed that they were running out of battery without that.

I've also done a lot of tire testing along the way.

Like said the original schwalbe g-one bites are the worst (rode them for 800km, got 8 flats, and they are not really good on gravel nor on road)

After that I had some pirelli cinturato rc's in 40-622, they were lightweight, but again a lot of punctures since they are a "race tire" so my own fault. (Rode these for like 500km and got 3 flats on the front one and 2 at the rear tire, last one was beyond repairable)

Next up was vittoria terreno dry's in 40-622 aswell. An awesome tire, 900km with one flat in the front, fixed with a tubeless repair thingy "camel shit" as we call it.

And the current ones are continental terra trail protection's in 40-622. I bought these because I needed some more grip, they are black and they are really well protected against punctures. 200km in with no problems.

Other upgrades

I upgraded to the power crank which was like 200€ and it is worth it IMO, I love the data and I can train more effieciently.

I also ridewrapped it just to be safe.

I'm happy to answer any questions you might have 🙂

Canyon pls send me some gifts…