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Vaporware or Gamechanger? The Bike Tech from the CES Show 2025

Vaporware or Gamechanger? The Bike Tech from the CES Show 2025

The Consumer Electrics Show ( CES ) isn’t the first place you’d think of when considering new tech in bikes. And frankly, you’re not going…

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The Consumer Electrics Show ( CES ) isn’t the first place you’d think of when considering new tech in bikes. And frankly, you’re not going to find the latest iteration of a race-ready road bike or a new gravel bike. But with the rise of electric assist, CES is worth paying attention to, even if it feels like most of it is vaporware.

Below is a roundup of everything bike-related (and bike-shaped) at CES 2025, a place where they call bikes ‘personal transportation.’ Urtopia

3D printed titanium bikes, and a motor so compact you can’t even tell where it is. (Photo: Urtopia) Perhaps the headlining feature here is a 3D-printed titanium e-bike. We’ve seen 3D-printed titanium before. What we haven’t seen, however, is an e-bike like this that weighs in at under 20 pounds claimed.

The claims are similarly surprising. Assist is provided by a drive unit called the Quarq DM1.2, a mid-drive motor that they say weighs just 2.6 pounds on its own. Further, Urtopia claims the system can produce 65 Nm peak torque, a surprising number for its size. This might be the smallest e-bike motor we’ve seen yet… or one that’s not designed to be hidden away, at least. (Photo: Urtopia) As a point of comparison, the Fazua Ride 60 mid drive motor (found on the likes of the Cervelo Rouvida among others) offers 60 Nm torque, but that lightweight drive motor weighs in at 4.3 pounds. Even Giant’s new Syncdrive hub drive motor weighs in at 3.7 […]

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