Canyon’s After-Dark Playbook: The Canyon ECLIPS System puts light, power, and common sense in the same frame

The Canyon ECLIPS System isn’t a gimmick; it’s the pointy end of safety and performance finally working together. Mention it once and you’ll sound clever—mention the Canyon ECLIPS System twice and you’ll sound prepared, which is what you want when the clocks fall back and the roads turn into a shadowy guessing game.

Canyon has built visibility into the bike, not just onto it. This is lighting that behaves like part of the drivetrain—predictable, efficient, and impossible to forget on the kitchen table. Across road, gravel, trekking, and city platforms, the German outfit has taken the faff out of night riding and replaced it with integrated engineering.

What ECLIPS actually does (and why riders will care)

At its core, the Endless Charge & Lighting Integrated Power System is a tidy marriage of a SON hub dynamo, an internally mounted battery and control unit, and two Lupine lights—front and rear.

The control unit juggles power so the beam stays flicker-free at a standstill, shows energy use and charge level in the Canyon App, and swaps duties on the fly: at speed, the dynamo juices the battery; when you’re crawling, the battery carries the load. It’s the practical balance night riders have been pretending clip-on lights could manage for years.

ECLIPS makes its gravel debut on selected versions of the Grizl CF 9 and Grizl CF 8—the sort of bikes that don’t head home just because the sun does.

CITY & URBAN MOBILITY

1) Citylite Family — city, rewritten

The new Citylite lineup blends clean design with baked-in visibility.

• Citylite (non-electric): belt drive, internal hub gearing, and a dynamo-powered system feeding neatly integrated front and rear lights in the bar and frame.
• Citylite:ON (e-bike): same elegant lighting logic, now paired with a Bosch Performance Line motor and a 400 Wh battery that powers a rear light with a brake-light function. From the commute to the late-night dash, the city is lit on your terms.

2) Roadlite:ONfly — Fast. Light. Urban.

Weighing 16.1 kg (size M), the latest Roadlite:ONfly brings road-bike snap to city tarmac. The LightSKIN H2E Flat handlebar hides a 150-lumen LED headlight—no dangling cables, no drama—powered by the main battery and operated via the FAZUA handlebar remote.

The rear LightSKIN unit lives inside the seatpost, stays powered even when the motor’s off, and keeps your six covered in traffic.

TREKKING & ADVENTURE

3) Pathlite:ON — built for the everyday and the in-between

If your map has more coffee stains than contour lines, the Pathlite:ON range is the sensible pick.

• Pathlite:ONfly 8: compact Bosch Performance Line SX motor, integrated Supernova front light, and flush-mounted Sate-lite rear lights with a brake signal—agile, efficient, and very hard to lose in the dark.
• Pathlite:ON SUV: ups the grunt with a Bosch CX motor, a handlebar-controlled Supernova front light, and a Sate-lite M15 rear unit with an intuitive brake-light function. Bring the bags; the bike won’t blink.

GRAVEL

4) Grizl:ONfly — built for adventure, ready for the dark

Canyon’s gravel DNA meets e-assist with lighting that’s part of the plan, not an afterthought. Every Grizl:ONfly carries a Lupine Nano SL up front and Canyon x Lupine SightStays at the rear, both fed directly by the main Bosch battery for consistent brightness.

• CF 9: the fast all-rounder for mixed surfaces.
• CF Trail: adds 40 mm RockShox suspension for rowdier tracks.
• CF Daily: commuter-friendly with mounts for racks and mudguards—autumn’s best friend.

ROAD

5) Endurace:ONfly — endurance with vision

Long days, late finishes, fewer excuses. The Endurace:ONfly hides a quiet TQ-HPR50 motor inside a carbon frame, with battery and brains tucked away. Out back, Canyon x Lupine SightStay lights shine bright; up front, a LightSKIN U1 Ultra headlight delivers 150 lumens from within the cockpit. It’s tidy, subtle, and exactly what an e-road bike should look like at dusk.

The takeaway for riders who’d rather ride than recharge

Clip-ons bounce, straps snap, and “I forgot my light” is the oldest story in the book. With the Canyon ECLIPS System, the light is the bike. Whether you’re threading city streets, chewing gravel after sunset, or stretching a Sunday road spin past dinner, Canyon has built genuine after-dark competence into machines that already know how to move.

If you want to keep riding when the night shows up—and skip the ritual of charging removable lamps—you’ve got options this autumn. And they’re wired in from the start.