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Sharon and Phill anxiously awaiting another day at INTERBIKE!
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We hiked through the Venitian on our way to the convention. I wanna stay there next year!
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Serotta rear suspended Road Frame. Get ready kids. Full suspension is coming to road bikes!
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Here is a piece of the GIANT Booth that I liked. Kinda broken urban feel to it. I took both sides
and happened to get GIANT's new full suspension bike. Also shown is their new FOURBAR linkage bike.
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Ventanna Full-Suspension tandem ... think I have a fixation yet?
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Shaft drive bicycle. Note the standard headset.
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BIGFOOT! The first suspension fork for bicycles that is measured in FEET not INCHES! This is on a
specially coated Remec frame but it does show how big daddy long leg the fork is! Also shown is a Specialized
with one of Risse's long travel links.
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Mavic's Mektronic system.
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A possible future upgrade for the Sherpa-Burpan
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Arrow's DS frame and their new range of tires, showing the 24x2.5 on up to the 26x3.0. The 2.5" tires
are actually quite small and appear closer to a 2.1 or 2.2. The 2.75s are actually closer to a 2.5 to
2.6 but the tread patterns are still awesome!
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Bebop pedals with their new "Cheap" pedal. Pretty sucky looking.
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Phill Davis modeling the new GIRO full face helmet.
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J&B Importers going for the bamboo look.
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Rock Shox had a very impressive display showing all of their new psylo forks and judys and rubys and
sids and rear shocks and DH forks that nearly perfectly captured how their forks DON'T WORK!
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Kona's most impressive XCish bike?
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The most impressive bike line of the entire show in my opinion. The Marin linup of hydroformed tubing,
longer than average travel and ultra light weight frames makes them appeal to me on nearly every level.
One slight problem is that the shocks still have a mostly falling rate and would require one to use
an air shock to balance the negative feeling effects of the poor rate. Their prices, spec, and performance
should put them head and shoulders above the rest!
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Norco's push in the North Shore has made quite an impressive bicycle. Unfortunately, it is not available
in the states.
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Santa Cruz had thier bikes showing in full force.
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Phill in Oakleys. Tell me which one you think is the best!
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Another possible helmet option.
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New Thompson Stems. Not super light but should be VERY strong.
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Hope disk brakes in all flavors.
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Titus this year had their four bar linkage and also introduced a swingarm design that claims to have
as little input as their four bar but with about a half pound shaved off the frame. WOW, now who'da
thought?
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Chris King and still no Bottom Bracket!
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She went to hand me whatever this was and all of a sudden a flash went off in her eyes. I smiled and
said "thank you" and kept right on walking. This was the result.
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VANS had one of the broadest selections of shoes. I may be riding for them this year if we can hammer
out the agreements.
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For Bryan. I had to insert the few ... and I mean few ... highlights from specialized's room.
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As we went to leave the show we made a stop by the Cane Creek booth. Nate suggested that we connect
two shocks end to end perhaps not even realizing what he was suggesting. This spawned a discussion which
lead to our meeting the head design engineer and discussing the possibilities with him. What was really
fun about our little meeting is to find that despite us being the little guys in our niche, we are still
the ones that drive the market. Without us, the industry would never progress to become what it is today
or tomorrow. I was pleased with the show for the most part as people are still discovering and trudging
through new ground. I still believe there is much more room for the bicycles of tomorrow. With that
having been said, we'll see you next year!
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