Carolin Schiff’s unreleased Canyon: The Women’s Unbound Gravel 200 winning bike

When Carolin Schiff claimed victory in the women’s 200-mile race of the 2023 Garmin Unbound Gravel presented by Craft, it was an epic solo effort for the last few hours of the race that delivered a stunning solo win for the German rider. 

On taking the win, Schiff said “I did not always believe that there was a big gap. To finish is to finish and just push because anything can happen. I love gravel racing! I found my spot, I think.”

Schiff races for the Canyon CLLCTV gravel team and has been pictured riding the brand’s Grizl gravel bike so far this season, including taking the win at the UCI World Series in Berja, Spain. Canyon also produces the Grizl gravel bike and the road-going Ultimate is also capable of accommodating gravel tyres so there are plenty of options in the Canyon range to choose from. Unbound, however, saw her riding a prototype bike from Canyon in a subtly camouflaged paint scheme, Peter Stetina and some other athletes were also riding the same prototype. The new frame looks to borrow features from bikes in the Canyon line already, there looks to be a new seatpost shape and rumours of a frame storage compartment in the down tube, a bit like the Trek Checkpoint or S-Works Diverge STR, both of which were featured in our Unbound tech gallery. 

The differences here are most noticeable at the front of the bike with what appears to be a deeper fork which looks similar to the Grizl model, but without the additional mounts that fork has. There also seems to be a new integrated handlebar and stem that has a downward sweep from the stem faceplate, and an outward flare from the hoods to the drops.