3D printed carbon fibre unibody bike to be displayed at Eurobike 2019

Silicon Valley company AREVA will display its 3D printed carbon fibre unibody production bike frame on the stand of manufacturing partner Oechsler at Eurobike 2019.

The company will also display the world’s first 3D printed thermoplastic rim, designed by Eurobike Gold Award-winning industrial designer Bill Stephens of StudioWest.

AREVO also is offering demonstration rides on an e-bike featuring this innovative frame and material, similar to that announced earlier this year at the Sea Otter Classic in California.

The company will announce next week a new e-bike frame design and a new customer for it. This customer, a bike industry leader based in the Netherlands, will display this new e-bike in the Eurobike exhibition hall.

AREVO is making a significant impact in the bike manufacturing industry and in areas such as urban mobility, featuring patented software algorithms enabling generative design techniques, free-motion robotics for “True 3D” construction, and direct energy deposition for virtually void free construction all optimised for anisotropic composite materials.

For instance, the AREVO DNA AM process takes the design and final manufacture of a bike frame from 18 months to just a few days at a significant reduction in product development costs.

Other benefits include:

• True serial, volume production of AM-made composite parts that are made with thermoplastic materials, which are tougher, durable and recyclable, as compared to brittle and non-recyclable thermoset materials


• A replacement of a laborious manual process with a fully-automated, “lights out” production model


• Delivering on the promise of localized manufacturing or “on-shoring,” which creates greater independence for bike brands


• A much greater “freedom of design” for bike manufacturers that creates the possibility of fully-customized bikes made on an “on demand” basis

The bike will be featured on the stand of manufacturing partner Oechsler (Messe Friedrichshafen - Hall A1 – 508) at Eurobike 2019 in Friedrichshafen, Germany.

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