Czech robot-wound carbon experts CDuro tease an all-new gravel bike prototype, and open orders for their lightweight Epona enduro bike…
Click to email a link to a friend At Bespoked in Dresden over the weekend, Czech robot-wound carbon bike maker CDuro teased us with an all-new gravel bike prototype. Designed as an all-rounder, this prototype gravel bike highlights their unique automated carbon tube & joint manufacturing construction, showcasing every individual wrap of carbon that makes up its structure.
I did in fact, already catch a glimpse of an early prototype that CompoTech was working on, which would become their CDuro Epona enduro bike… which itself is now available.But CompoTech’s latest and most advanced automated manufacturing technology is really what fuels them to create their CDuro Bikes brand.
CompoTech show how the downtube assembly of the Epona is made in that video above, but don’t reveal exactly what happens in the next step. However, that long robot arm suggests much bigger assemblies could be rotated through the automated production. The finished product is a strangely skeletal or even industrial aesthetic, at times even looking unfinished. But that’s exactly because CDuro’s robots only place the carbon fiber where they need to from a structural perspective.
Officially, this is still completely a gravel prototype, and CDuro does not have any real final details of an estimated availability timeline for the new bike. They do describe the gravel bike more as an all-rounder. So it will have gravel geometry inspired by the mountain bikers who have designed it. And while optimizing weight, CDuro prioritize durability over the absolute lightest weight possible for this gravel bike project.
This is the versatile and capable mountain bike that CompoTech’s engineers wanted to build from the start. CDuro name the Epona after a local technical rocky trail that descends from the highest mountain just above CDuro’s factory in Sušice, at the foot of the Šumava mountains on the CZ/DE border.
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