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KANTE 01 — the launch book

KANTE 01 · ELECTRIC CITY BIKE
PL. 01 Kante 01, Graphite, size M. Closed diamond, level top tube, four machined 6061-T6 nodes, 6061-T6 tubes. 700c × 50 mm.
KANTE 01 What wears is sealed. What holds is shown. A city asks a bicycle to do the same few things thousands of times: start at a light, climb a ramp, stand in the rain, start again. The Kante 01 is built around that repetition. Its motor and its twelve gears share one sealed housing at the bottom…
KANTE 01 Named for the one detail you can touch. Kante is German for edge. The word comes from the drawing office, not the showroom. CONTENTS 01 FRAME 06 02 DRIVE 08 03 POWER 10 04 COCKPIT 11 05 LIGHT 12 06 NAME 14 — SPECIFICATION 16 — GEOMETRY 18 — NOTES 19 Eight plates. One specification. Every…
PL. 02 Front three-quarter, non-drive side. Head-tube node with flush light slot; rigid fork with straight tapered blades and a machined crown.
01 · FRAME Four nodes, and the straight tubes between them. The Kante 01 is a closed diamond, the shape the bicycle settled on more than a century ago. A triangle does not fold. Machined nodes · drawn tubes. One alloy throughout, so the welds hold and the frame heattreats as a whole. Each junction…
01 · FRAME COLOURWAY B · RAW The same frame, clear-anodised and beadblasted to a satin grey. Against it the diamondcut edges take a higher polish. The drive cradle, bar-stem, cranks, rims, tyres and belt stay matte black on both colourways, and the fasteners stay black oxide. Neither carries a…
02 · DRIVE 600 % Gear range. Twelve steps of ~17.7 %, all inside one housing. Twelve gears in a sealed case. One belt. The gearbox moves to the bottom bracket, so the back of the bike carries nothing but a sprocket. A derailleur is a precise mechanism left out in the weather. From the drive unit a…
02 · DRIVE PLATE 04 Drive unit and belt. Pinion MGU E1.12 in a two-piece machined cradle, six exposed bolts. Gates Carbon Drive CDX belt to a single rear sprocket.
03 · POWER Inside the down tube, not on it. Thirty-nine 21700 lithium-ion cells, arranged 13s3p, ride inside the down tube. Capacity is targeted at ~670 Wh nominal. Nothing is fixed to the outside of the frame. To remove the pack, unlock the milled end cap and it drops out of the underside of the…
04 · COCKPIT Two buttons a side. One disc of glass. The rider's view of the Kante 01 is one machined part with a display set into it. Bar and stem are a single piece of machined aluminium, matte black: a flat level, gear and charge, white on black. Switched off, it is a black disc. When the The…
05 · LIGHT Light, cut into the metal. No lamp, no bracket, no housing. Each light is a slot milled into a node. At the front, a white LED slot about 60 mm long crosses the face of the head-tube node and turns down both of its flanks. Head-on it reads as a bar of light. From the side, at a junction,…
05 · LIGHT At the rear, a red slot about 40 mm wide is milled into the back face of the seat-cluster node, under the saddle. Both sit flush with the metal and both draw from the main battery. They are on whenever the system is on, so there is no switch to forget. The rear light is red because the…
06 · NAME Kante is the German word for edge, the line where two faces of a solid meet. Say it KAHN- Kante brechen. tuh: two syllables, a hard K and a hard T. German for “break the edge”: the note on a shop drawing that tells the machinist to finish a sharp corner. called Kante and the answer can be…
PL. 08 The mark on the frame. Laser-marked into the hard anodise on the down tube's flank, tonal grey on black, reading from the bottom bracket toward the head tube.
SPECIFICATION · KANTE 01 · ELECTRIC CITY BIKE 21.5 kg ~670 Wh 60–120 km 85 Nm 12 Belt 700c × 50 WEIGHT (TARGET) BATTERY (TARGET) RANGE (TARGET) MOTOR TORQUE SPEEDS, SEALED GATES CDX WHEELS MACHINE DRIVE Type Electric city bike, EU pedelec Sizes S · M · L. Figures for size M Weight, complete Assist…
SPECIFICATION COCKPIT Bar-stem One-piece machined aluminium. Flat bar, 640 mm, 8° backsweep Display 32 mm circular, flush in the stem top. Speed, assist, gear, charge Controls Two machined thumb remotes. Left: assist up/down. Right: shift up/down Brakes Hydraulic disc, two-piston. Rotors 180 mm…
GEOMETRY · SIZE M REACH 400 The frame as drawn. Size M, rider 172–184 cm. Side elevation, all dimensions in mm. Centre lines dashed. Effective top HEAD TUBE 160 tube 585, seat tube 520 centre to top, standover ~810: see the table STACK 620 on page 17. OFFSET 50 73.5° BB DROP 70 CHAINS TAY 45 5…
NOTES NOTES PLATES The Kante 01 is a concept. The machine in these pages has been designed, specified and rendered; it has not yet been built. Every image of it is a PL. 01 Kante 01, Graphite. Side profile, drive side 02 rendering of one specification, and every figure in the book is drawn from…
KANTE 01 · ELECTRIC CITY BIKE 21.5 kg ~670 Wh 60–120 km 85 Nm 12 speeds belt drive 700c × 50