Eurobike 2023: Highlights from the fields of electronics and sustainability

Here you will find all the Eurobike highlights from the enduro and downhill sectors.

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Muc Off Stealth Tubeless Tag Holder

Thanks to their localisation function, Apple Airtags ensure that our little treasures are a little safer. However, the small transmitters need to be hidden as inconspicuously as possible on the bike. Muc Off has now come up with a completely invisible solution. A normal tubeless valve on the outside, with a holder for the Airtag on the inside. Who would expect to find it there? The 18 grams of the system should not be noticeable when riding. The discreet safety feature costs 43 euros (e.g. at Alltricks or Rose available.

Kind Shok Lev Circuit variable seatpost

The Americans are energising their telescopic seatpost. An adjustment range of 125 to 200 millimetres can be controlled via a Bluetooth signal. While there is a button cell in the controller, the external, waterproof battery pack of the support has to be plugged in every 5000 activations. According to Kind Shok, this corresponds to around four hours of charging every six months. Available from the end of September in 30.9 or 31.6 millimetre diameters and for around 690 euros.

Bike Yoke Revive Bluetooth variable seatpost

Stefan Sack, aka "Säcki", presented a self-painted shirt and a Bluetooth-controlled prototype of the Bike Yoke Revive dropper post at Eurobike. The inner workings are identical to the current model, so a conversion option could be conceivable one day. Once installed, nothing is visible of the electronics, as the control unit and battery are located underneath the post body. Despite this, the wireless Revive is only just under ten millimetres longer. After around 5000 releases, the support must be removed from the frame for charging and connected to a USBC port. Sacki does not see this as a disadvantage, as it would provide an opportunity for cleaning every few months.

Forge + Bond wheels

The manufacturing process of the new player in the wheel segment is highly automated. A fully spoked carbon wheel is produced in just 20 minutes. Instead of epoxy resin, nylon is used as an adhesive, which makes cooling the "Fusionfibre" material superfluous. Overall, significantly less energy is consumed than in conventional carbon production. And the material is much less harmful to health. The robots only allow an extremely small amount of excess material. This is then shredded into carbon shreds, which Forge+Bond then uses to produce particularly stable tyre levers. The latest enduro wheels from the Americans have a rim width of 30 millimetres and cost 2599 US dollars with hubs from Industry-Nine.

CHPO sunglasses

The label manufactures its sustainable sunglasses in Shanghai using waste from headlight production. Bags and cleaning cloths are made from recycled plastic bottles. CHPO comes from the skate scene and is also involved in social projects. Because the Swedes believe that everyone should be able to afford a good pair of glasses, each of the colourful models costs just 40 euros >> e.g. at Mountain friends available.

Jack Wolfskin Bike-Commute 2.5L Jkt W Jacket

The new Jack Wolfskin rain jacket is made from old items of clothing and offcuts. All surplus material is fed back into the production cycle. This zero-waste approach also earned the company a Eurobike Award. Thanks to Texapore Ecosphere Pro material, the jacket should offer the best weather protection.

Hartmut Köbler

Hartmut Köbler has been living on his bike for 15 years. His home on two wheels weighs 70 kilos - complete with axe and firewood. On his travels around the world, the adventurer sometimes feeds on animals he has hunted himself or run over. The 55-year-old has put down his bow and arrow for the fair. However, he is always prepared for the collapse of the monetary system.

Trickstuff 3D studies

Trickstuff printed prototype brake levers from titanium powder directly on site. This is made possible by a new collaboration with the German 3D printing experts from Trumpf, who have trialled the same technology in the medical sector. A laser fuses tiny titanium particles with pinpoint accuracy, allowing less material to be used than with the existing CNC-milled levers.

Some of the brake levers can even be made hollow to save additional weight. Anodising brings colour into play. Trickstuff also exhibited 3D-printed prototypes of flat pedals. The integrated bearing seats make post-processing superfluous. It is not yet clear whether the studies will make it to market maturity.

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