The best Cyber Monday gravel bike deals on the best bikes I’ve ridden or rated this year

The capitalist machine doesn’t stop just because it’s the Sabbath, and Cyber Monday Cycling Deals are still live and moving fast. Hang on, does that mean this is the Black Sabbath, or Cyber Sunday? Who knows?

Whilst we hover in this moment of search-intent-shopping-uncertainty, what we do know is that we’re seeing more of the direct brands cutting prices as we move gently but decisively from Black Friday into the real-deal-bike-bonanza of Cyber Monday.

That doesn’t mean there aren’t bargains today, however, if you hunt them down, so this weekend we’ve done the hard work for you, and I’m pleased to say today could still be the best time to grab one.

Prices are holding, but they won’t hang around for long. These are the best fast-moving gravel bike deals I’ve found this weekend.

Ribble and versatile bikes have been synonymous since time began. So they know a thing or two about designing bikes that do more than one thing, and the CGR is the best example of that.

Standing for ‘commute, gravel, road’ the CGR range is a do-it-all package that is pretty unbeatable in terms of value, and the variety of use cases this bike will deliver on.

We’re used to seeing hyper-segmentation in bike marketing: gravel-race, adventure-gravel, all-road, when really the CGR doesn’t just span those categories in a jack-of-all-trades master-of-none kind of way, it will in fact work just as a well as any of the specialist stuff, most of the time.

Why buy one?

Ribble have a direct consumer model that means they hit prices no one else can touch. They’ve also been at it a very long time, so they know which vendors to use to get the result they need in terms of how the bike works, and for the numbers on their spreadsheets. That’s the reality they work in and there’s few brands better at it. In recent years, a ton of new investment into the brand has seen them make huge strides in terms of the customer experience too, so you don’t have to feel like you’re compromising by going direct.

Canyon have a bit of stealth sale going on very decent discounts across both Grizl and Grail ranges. I’ve had a Grizl in for test all summer and I don’t want to give it back: it’s been my pub bike; I’ve used it to ride to my part time job; and I’ve even taken it to Kelling Heath and ragged it around the mountain bike trails up there. There’s some routes here along the coast and through pine trees, on sandy tracks and marshes and it’s eaten all of it, and has been a huge motivator for my riding this year. It’s got storage in the frame and chunky, purposeful design that puts me in the mind of a mountain bike and that’s no bad thing, because it’s capable enough on the road to be a pleasure to pedal in a road context, then it’s rowdy and happiest when you leave the tarmac – it’s brilliantly versatile.

Which one would I buy?

Grail is the racier of the two, and is the one to go for if you’re looking for more of an all-road solution, or if you’re looking for outright speed, on less technical trails. I’d take the chunkier, funkier, go anywhere Grizl for everything from Bikepacking with your mates to Unbound or Trakka.