Eurobike 2016: WTF? Brose Concept E-Bike

You see plenty of oddities at Eurobike, and this is one of the oddest we saw this year. It’s a 3D printed concept e-bike with carbon fibre wheels and side panels, made by German company Brose. While Bosch may well have been ubiquitous at Eurobike, Brose also make e-bike batteries and motors, used by some brands you’ve definitely heard of: Scott, Rotwild, Sunn, and Bulls, among others. Below is the most eye-catching bike they had, how many features from it do you think might eventually make their way over to mountain bikes?

Not optimised for crosswinds. If it was 1985, I’d expect this to have a panel that made various laser sound effects.

You might just be able discern it on these images, but the plastic parts of the body have the grain of a 3D print.

Ape hangers from the distant future!

The motor is fairly small and neat, and apparently switching to a motorbike style swing arm construction saves 200g on the frame.

Integrated brake light. Some of Magura’s new e-bike brake levers have switches designed to work with this kind of thing.

Not Magura though, Cleg.

No expense spared. Not only does it have Cleg brakes, those are some blingy Syntace pedals too.

Ooof! Carbon mag wheels can’t be cheap.

Do you think the white spoke is to make finding the valve easier?

The seat and bars are also apparently motorised, so bar height and seat position can be adjusted on the fly without tools. Profiles can be saved for each rider. Now, if only it could change the saddle shape for different riders too…

David Hayward

David started mountain biking in the 90’s, by which he means “Ineptly jumping a Saracen Kili Racer off anything available in a nearby industrial estate”. After growing up and living in some extremely flat places, David moved to Yorkshire specifically for the mountain biking. This felt like a horrible mistake at first, because the hills are so steep, but you get used to them pretty quickly. Previously, David trifled with road and BMX, but mountain bikes always won. He’s most at peace battering down a rough trail, quietly fixing everything that does to a bike, or trying to figure out if that one click of compression damping has made things marginally better or worse. The inept jumping continues to this day.