Fancy some adventure touring? Then Salsa have the bike for you, the Fargo – which incidentally gets Day one’s WTF! Award. What we have here is a rigid 29er mountain bike with drop bars, Avid discs, yes, drop bars, five (count ’em) bottle cages – extreme touring being thirsty work apparently – Shimano XT Deore … Read more
Most of the TT bikes on show are curvaceous, sculpted carbon offerings, but it doesn’t have to be this way – Litespeed are showing off this Titanium tubed beauty. It’s just a prototype but looks well-finished, and importantly the main tubes look have the 4:1 ratio that any budding Mike Burrows will tell you is … Read more
The folks at the German Carbon Group, which includes THM Carbones and Schmolke, put together this specimen to show just how light they could make a fully functioning road bike. By ‘fully functioning’, I guess they mean rideable by whippets – lots of carbon gear has load limits a whole medium-sized child under my weight, … Read more
Fancy some singlespeed fixie action German style? No not Fixie inc (we’ll check them out later) – here’s some Bergamonts that caught the eye. Not sure about pedalling the pink and white number down Peckham High Street but there’s also this classy looking flat bar version or a tougher looking urban effect black and green … Read more
Lars has been Dutch Cyclocross champion since he was 16 and won the World champs in 2007. And this tricked-out Colnago is his race bike – it even has mud on the tyres. I’m not sure a radially spoked deep section carbon front wheel is everyone’s idea of off road comfort, but the boy keeps … Read more
Pinarello reckon 2008 was the year of the Prince – well it did bag a load of awards. A hard act to follow, so for 2009 they’ve upped the ante with higher a higher grade carbon weave for their flagship model – which should in theory – make for an even lighter stiffer bike. They … Read more
In Bionicon’s vision of the urban future we’ll all be either cruising around on three-speed behemoths (see the Urban Cargo in the Eurobike Gallery) or kerb-hopping on Cromo utility machines such as this, the Urban road. Frame-wise, it’s a sensible beast, not light (the stated weight is 2.1kg) but certainly well built. It’s finished in … Read more
Stiff, light , good looking – and comfortable to ride, when the last incarnation of the Orca hit the streets back in 2006 I really liked it. This was one of the first bikes to demonstrate that the bike industry was really getting to grips with the possibilities carbon had to offer, and it sure … Read more
There are 68million bicycles in Germany, 1million up on last year. 2.84million have been sold this year so far which means they’ve lost 1.84 million… which seems a bit careless.
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