Eurobike 2013 Edition Fresh Goods Friday

The days of free socks and T-shirts seem to be over as show-gifts go. Luckily, we no longer also get given huge press kits and CDs of images as they’ll all fit on to a USB stick.

Most product at the show is barely finished in time 2014 stuff, but there are a few bits and pieces we’ll be bringing back to test once show season is over. Let’s see what we’ve got in Fresh Goods – Eurobike Edition.

Shimano’s new photochromic eyewear. In blue to match the…

Shimano’s latest top-end race shoes – heat mouldable and extra stiff.

A Surface branded new Scoop saddle? It can only be from the Charge party.

Chimpanzee bars and mini bars, an essential mid hall trawl treat

The multiple approaches to USB. Beer openers feature highly for some reason.

Kona’s saloon booth demands cowboy hat wearing in return for a beer.

Speedplay have cool little pedal spanner keyrings

5.10 non stealth rubber bandana

Enve’s T shirt celebrating 2012 cross country and downhill champions

and matching socks

ProGold’s Xtreme Chain Lube now in packable portions

New Knog Blinder Arc 5.5 500 lumens of front light joy.

Muc Off’s Ice Fresh Sports Towel

Mini Smarties in a test tube, from Yepp Cargo

That’s it so far. We’ve one more trawl of the halls to do and we’re out of here…

Chipps Chippendale

Singletrackworld's Editor At Large

With 23 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps is the longest-running mountain bike magazine editor in the world. He started in the bike trade in 1990 and became a full time mountain bike journalist at the start of 1994. Over the last 30 years as a bike writer and photographer, he has seen mountain bike culture flourish, strengthen and diversify and bike technology go from rigid steel frames to fully suspended carbon fibre (and sometimes back to rigid steel as well.)