{"id":50274,"date":"2025-08-07T12:17:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T12:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/50274\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T12:17:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T12:17:26","slug":"canyon-and-valtteri-bottas-partner-on-limited-edition-gravel-bike-with-disco-vibes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/50274\/","title":{"rendered":"Canyon and Valtteri Bottas partner on limited-edition gravel bike with \u2018disco vibes\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canyon and Formula One star Valtteri Bottas have created a limited-edition Canyon Grail CFR VB 77 with &#8216;disco vibes&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With a glitter-ball finish, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikeradar.com\/advice\/buyers-guides\/best-gravel-bikes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">gravel bike<\/a> takes inspiration from the 1970s disco aesthetic, which Canyon says Bottas has taken to \u201clike a budgie to a smuggler\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[I]n tribute to his business-at-the-front, party-at-the-back vibe, Canyon has developed a limited-edition Valtteri Bottas Grail CFR, a bike that celebrates the F1 star\u2019s favourite 77 race number and just so happens to be one of the peak years of disco,\u201d says Canyon.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2048\" height=\"2560\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/605283-2024_REQ_grail_cfr-vb77-ltd_4213_R121_P09_P2-Job-400-SR-2-afffef-original-1754298590-scaled.j.webp\" alt=\"Valtteri Bottas Canyon Grail VB 77.\" class=\"wp-image-933637\"\/>Only 100 of the bikes will be available. Canyon<\/p>\n<p>Canyon has also launched a social media campaign that sees the 10-times Grand Prix winner doing his best Saturday Night Fever moves with his new bike.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Alongside the mirror-ball finish, Canyon\u2019s designer Lukas Beck has adapted the brand&#8217;s mountain head tube icon to resemble Bottas\u2019 moustache, which the German company describes as a \u201cfitting tribute to a man who is carving out a unique identity in the bike world\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"800\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/605281-2024_REQ_grail_cfr-vb77-ltd_4213_R121_P09_-Job-400-SR-1-d346eb-original-1754298586.jpg\" alt=\"Valtteri Bottas Canyon Grail VB 77.\" class=\"wp-image-933636\"\/>The bike has a glitter-ball finish. Canyon<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/605286-2024_REQ_grail_cfr-vb77-ltd_4213_R121_P09_Headtube-Job-400-SR-1-a9a2bc-original-1754298590-1-.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-933640\"\/>Bottas&#8217; moustache appears on the head tube. <\/p>\n<p>You might be wondering what \u2018unique identity\u2019 the reserve driver for Mercedes has in the bike world. Well, alongside racing F1, the 35-year-old Fin is a competitive age-group bike racer and his partner Tiffany Cromwell races for Canyon\u2013SRAM zondacrypto.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Last year, he even took part in the UCI World Gravel Championships, where Canyon decked him out with its latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikeradar.com\/features\/pro-bike\/valtteri-bottas-canyon-grail-gravel-bike\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grail CFR painted in Finnish colours<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bottas\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikeradar.com\/reviews\/bikes\/gravel-bikes\/canyon-grail-cf-slx-8-di2-review\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Canyon Grail<\/a> VB 77 takes a slightly more outlandish look than his Gravel World Championships bike, but otherwise it has a similar spec.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/602552-2025_ACT_Grail_CFR_VB77-LTD-Action-shoot-Nice_4213_ALL-7-as_jpg-3665ed-original-1753263342-sc.webp\" alt=\"Valtteri Bottas with Canyon Grail VB 77.\" class=\"wp-image-933634\"\/>Bottas has taken to the 1970s \u201clike a budgie to a smuggler\u201d.\u00a0 Canyon<\/p>\n<p>The bike is fitted with the SRAM Red XPLR AXS groupset, which has a 1x crankset and a 13-speed cassette.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It has Zipp 303 XPLR wheels with 54mm-deep and 32mm-wide rims.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s complete with Canyon\u2019s adaptable CP0047 Gear Groove Pro cockpit, wrapped in Canyon Ergospeed Gel bar tape, alongside a Canyon seatpost and Fizik Vento saddle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Canyon says there are only 100 of these bikes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canyon and Formula One star Valtteri Bottas have created a limited-edition Canyon Grail CFR VB 77 with &#8216;disco&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-50274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}