Aluminium is often regarded as the least attractive of frame materials, overshadowed by steel, titanium and carbon. It's not inherently the lightest or the most compliant but built well it can provide these attributes as well as coming with a price tag that makes it more accessible than the other materials. And it's application for affordable gravel bikes makes plenty of sense, as demonstrated by Canyon's new Grizl AL.
Here Canyon have a really cool bike painted with a broad stroke, able to be dressed up or down as required, making it something of genuine do-it-all in a product category that's becoming increasingly specialised.
