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There’s a new high-performance bike brand on the block named Avona, created by one of ARC8’s co-founders, and they launch today with a race-ready Callis carbon gravel bike. Avona also will have a short travel Silva trail bike later this spring, and a Velum road bike in the works, too. But for now, let’s focus mostly on what will make this new Avona brand unique – what they describe as a holistic approach to creating complete bikes.
Plus, they have some killer limited artist edition paint jobs. (All photos/Road Bike Connection Spring – Rupert Fowler) And of course, we’ll take a detailed look at that Callis… Who is Avona anyway?
All-new carbon Avona Callis fast gravel bike, who is Avona? There’s an obvious spoiler once you get a glimpse of the upcoming Avona Silva mountain bike. It’s such a unique design , long-time Bikerumor readers will immediately recognize it, and put two and two together.
So… Avona is the latest project of bike design engineer Jonas Müller – who co-founded ARC8 bikes with Serafin Pazdera in Switzerland back in 2019 . While still freelancing for ARC8 it seems, Jonas has paired up with product manager Max Koch to start another, entirely separate brand where they could design top-tier, high-performance bikes – complete bikes.
Importantly, while ARC8 focuses mostly on frames/framesets, they created Avona to build complete bikes that […]
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