Canyon reckons it can make you a set of handlebars in 10 seconds — plus beautiful oversized pulley wheels, an 8.5kg e-road bike prototype, affordable gravel bikes incoming + loads more from Eurobike 2025

In case you missed it, one of the biggest bike shows in Europe took place in a rather warm and sweaty Frankfurt this week. Roving reporter Rebecca was at Eurobike to find some interesting bits and pieces from the airport-sized halls, as well as getting lost trying to find the press room every single day. 

But when she wasn’t lost in the labyrinth, she discovered some new bits from BMC and Canyon, some 3D-printed gravel shoes, a wooden gravel bike, and quite a lot more. So, here’s our Tech of the Week: Eurobike edition…

Canyon has found a way to make handlebars in seconds

Yes, you read that right. In the time it takes you to boil a kettle or open a packet of digestives and pop two of them in your mouth, you could have a brand-new handlebar for your bike ready to install. 

Working with injection moulding company, Engel, Canyon has developed a new technique using thermo-plastic reinforced carbon fibre to manufacture handlebars in less than a minute, instead of the days it usually takes. 

It can also include options for semi-integrated cabling and spaces for headlights on the cockpit. It’s designed for the Canyon Roadlite range in 2026, so if you’re interested in getting hold of one, ironically you will have to wait a while…

Fancy some custom gravel shoes? Now you can have 3D- printed ones

We’ve heard of custom inner soles, and even custom Lycra kit. But a custom, 3D- printed gravel shoe? Cycling brand Hezo has created the Wolfland 01 gravel shoes, which are custom made for every rider. 

Essentially, you scan your foot through the Hezo Scan App, and it detects your barefoot shape to create a shoe that supposedly fits perfectly. Currently it’ll set you back €299 for the privilege of a shoe made from recyclable polyprolene (PP), but you do get to choose the colour…

You get 60 days to try them out before you can no longer return them, and they’re compatible with SPD cleats and pedals.  

Elite debuts new Rivo turbo trainer… and kills off the Direto?

The Rivo is a brand new direct drive turbo from Elite, sitting at around the £500 price point and offering plenty of spec to back that up. It comes with a claimed 2.5% +/- accuracy, and supports virtual gradients of up to 18%. 

It’ll be available with a Zwift Cog and Click or with a normal freehub, so you can choose between a traditional cassette setup or taking advantage of the Zwift Cog’s simplicity – if you use Zwift, of course. 

It also has an integrated carry handle so it’s a bit easier to move around than some direct drive units. But, noticeably absent from the Elite booth was the popular Direto, a mid-priced, decent turbo that’s been the training partner for many a rider over the years. But, does Elite even need the Direto if they now have the very similarly priced Rivo?

Carbon fibre, 69g derailleur cage and jockey wheels that’ll set you back €390

Italian brand Alpitude is no stranger to making fine pieces of cycling componentry from its factory in Italy, but this year there was a few interesting pieces on its Eurobike stand that caught my eye. 

First up is the Brandtal ODC derailleur cage and jockey wheels, suitable for either Shimano or SRAM 12-speed groupsets. It’s only 69g in weight, comes in several anodised colourways, and ceramic bearings for low friction. 

Then, there are the ultralight seatposts, saddles, computer mounts and bottle cages. They’re all created from the same carbon fibre layup, which results in something super light and pretty beautiful, too. They do sell to the UK, but it may take a few weeks for your order to be crafted and sent. 

Is a new era of affordable gravel bikes about to be ushered in?

We stopped by the United Wheels stand, where they had a sneak peak of the new Batch gravel bike (the name is to be decided, but they were settling on GR1 for now). It’s not going to be in the shops until spring next year, but there will be two models focused on affordability and value. 

One is priced at £999 and the more premium option is £1,299. United Wheels has signed a deal with Evans Cycles, so you can expect to see its brands like Batch, Niner and others on the shop floor near you soon. 

Want to feel safer on the road? Unit 1 thinks its helmets will help

I know, we’ve all dreamt of using indicators and having brake lights on our bikes, right? OK maybe not, but the Unit 1 helmets do make a compelling argument for urban riders. If we’re expected to share the road with other, more dangerous vehicles, then it may not be enough to just have lights bright enough to sear drivers’ retinas. 

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Instead, the company believes it makes sense to get bike riders to act in an easy to understand and consistent way by taking inspiration from some of the things cars have. In this case, it’s brake lights and indicators. Of course, the onus not to knock bike riders off is on other vehicle users, but it can’t hurt to add some universally understood signals to bike riding, right? 

We’ve currently got one in for testing, so we’ll let you know our thoughts soon. But if you’re keen to try one out, they go for about £250 – you do get a fair bit of tech packed in for the price, though. 

BMC Teammachine e-road bike prototype breaks cover

Just a few days after we covered the launch of the latest generation of BMC’s Teammachine R01, we found a new electric prototype version of the Swiss brand’s racing bike. 

Hiding away on the TQ stand, the BMC Teammachine 01 Concept Bike utilises the new HPR-40 mid-drive motor that also broke cover earlier this week on a Canyon. The brand claim the bike weighs 8.5kg fully built, and uses carbon fibre for its frame material. If true, that would make it lighter than the brand new Canyon Endurace:ONfly, that is said to be just under 10kg. 

I might be eating my hat after suggesting the e-road category might be dead in the UK, but it’ll be interesting to see what appetite there is for these new bikes and this new HPR-40 motor. Plus, BMC still don’t ship to the UK…

Would you ride a wooden gravel bike?

The handmade area of Eurobike never disappoints, and the Ornus wooden gravel bike is just the sort of interesting and unique concept we love to see. With Italian design and some intriguing tech, Ornus has managed to create a CNC wooden gravel bike that the brand says is one of the “most fascinating gravel bikes on the planet.”

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Priced between €6,999-8,590, the bike uses “special aluminium alloys” as the “internal connectors”, so it’s not just a few nicely chopped shapes of timber. The brand suggests wood has plenty of vibration absorbing properties, making it an interesting material for bikes designed to be ridden over rougher ground. 

Would you give a wooden gravel bike a go?

Here’s the rest of this week’s tech news across road.cc ICYMI: 

> Garmin and Tacx release £930 climbing simulator for indoor training
> The inventors of this £600 reusable battery-powered cyclist’s airbag want to see safety systems on cycling’s WorldTour
> Giant and Liv launch new Seek road bikes for kids (and leak a potential unreleased Microshift electronic groupset)
> Canyon launches “lightest e-road bike yet” and it’s sub-10kg
> Specialized unveils “the lightest shoe in the peloton” at just 148.2g per shoe
> Roval releases “the fastest road race wheels in the world”
> Continental releases Tadej Pogačar’s limited edition Archetype racing tyres, priced at £94.99 each
> Five Cool Things: Specialized’s “fastest, most durable road tyres”, Trek’s electric mini pump that could ‘replace four CO2 cartridges’ + more cool stuff from Ribble, Fizik and Velocio