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I want Urtopia’s Titanium Zero concept e-bike

Urtopia's 3D-printed titanium e-bike is gorgeous, light and, best of all, comes with a tiny mid-drive motor buried in the bottom bracket.

Those in the former group, known as hub motors, are cheap and bountiful, but lack the oomph required to cover rough terrain and high inclines. Hell, if it didn’t have the little controller visible on the crossbar, you could easily mistake this for an old-school racing bike, down to the drop handlebars. Urtopia says the tiny mid-drive motor can produce 65nm of max torque, which isn’t going to give any of the bigger names any nightmares; a Bafang M560 can output 130Nm.

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