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The European Bike Downside is one among our favourite Instagram accounts due to the feed is repeatedly up to date with every little issue from tiny producers to inside seems to be at European manufacturing. Alex went to Bespoked Dresden 2024 to trace down numerous the most effective bikes they discovered this 12 months. You gained’t be dissatisfied!
This time, we’re overlaying the best highway bikes and instruments from Bespoked Dresden 2024. See the remainder of our Bespoked Present security correct proper right here.
Vapour Cycles Phantom
Val from Vapour Cycles launched his new & unridden “Phantom” to Bespoked. This bike is spectacular in some strategies: Val works as a software program program program engineer and constructed the physique “as a weekend curiosity”.
Nonetheless that’s not enough, he furthermore constructed the filament winder that he used to make the sq. & tapered tubes himself. This machine stands in his lounge, the place he furthermore constructed the physique. The climate that aren’t filament-wound carbon have been made with 3D printed moulds.
Val says that he wished to make the most of the Agile Methodology which is utilized in software program program program engineering to make “{{{hardware}}}” contained in the sort of this physique. This allowed him to design and make the physique forward of commonplace approaches. Designing and making the physique merely took him various months – nonetheless not full-time. Be mindful, it’s solely a weekend curiosity!
The Phantom is a mixture of a triathlon and a observe bike that Val actually constructed to make the most of as a quick “metropolis bike”. Whereas the underside bracket home is stiff, the rider is suspended on the easiest beam. The aero stays mustn’t solely filter the turbulent airflows from the legs nevertheless in addition to present a damped journey truly actually really feel.
Val made constructive the bike is appropriate with commonplace highway bike components and it furthermore makes use of a UDH dropout. The prototype physique weighs merely 900 g.
A extraordinarily spectacular bike and story, which earned Val the “Mike Burrows Award for Innovation” at Bespoked 2024 that I had the excellence of judging.
vapourcycles.com | @vapourcycles
Tune
The Tune workforce purchased proper right here to Bespoked with two huge objects of experiences: The Yokto highway hubs and their new highway stem.
A Yokto hub set (entrance and rear) will weigh spherical 227 g, making it thought-about considered one of many lightest hub objects accessible in the marketplace. In keeping with Tune, they might have made the hubs even lighter, nonetheless they wished to make sure that the hubs are dependable too.
Whereas older and present Tune hubs use shims to handle the play, the mannequin new Yokto hubs work with out shims. They’ve a mannequin new lip seal and embody hybrid ceramic XD-15 bearings from Enduro. The doorway hub has carbon endcaps, the rear hub has aluminum endcaps.
At this stage, Tune affords the Yokto hubs in only one model: 24/24 holes, straight pull, and in a titanium gray anodized end (not uncooked as pictured).
Tune will promote the Yokto hubs in two Yokto wheelsets first, before making them obtainable as stand-alone merchandise in Q2/2025. The Yokto 3030 is a climbing wheelset that weighs 998 g. It comes with hooked carbon rims which are 30 mm excessive and have a 24 mm inside width. The Yokto 4550 weighs 1275 g and has 25 mm inside width rims (45 mm entrance / 50 mm rear).
With the mannequin new “POEtry Freewheel System”, Tune introduces a mannequin new freewheel system with merely two hardened metallic pawls and 40 components of engagement. In keeping with Tune, this system presents elevated vitality change and creates lots a lot much less drag.
Tune could also be rising a mannequin new highway stem that may enable for built-in cable routing and be relevant with Alpitude carbon mounts.
Scarab Cycles
Scarab Cycles is a motorbike company from Colombia, which could be the place their frames are made and painted. The Santa Rosa Integrad that they dropped at Bespoked had an consideration grabbing “Fractal Fruit” paintjob that was impressed by monarch chrysalises.
The Colibrí Damping System replaces the standard seatpost and seat tube with a really built-in carbon seat mast. In keeping with Scarab Cycles, this enhances the vertical damping and reduces vibrations.
scarabcycles.com | @scarabcycles
Quokka Cycles Observe Bike
This wild “Critmachine 2024 Bespoked Thought” contains a 3D printed fork crown, a squished prime tube and a really clear seatmast.
A personalised chainring completes this assemble.
quokkacycles.com | @quokkacycles
Ingrid
Italian drivetrain producer Ingrid launched their MTB shifter solely throughout the near earlier and are actually working laborious to get their highway groupset prepared for manufacturing.
Ingrid will work with System with a goal to offer a full groupset together with hydraulic disc brakes.
ingrid.bike| @ingridcomponents
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