Eurobike 2013: Demo Day Trends

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We’re just back from our wander around the Eurobike Dirt Demo. Apart from amusing ourselves by watching grown men gurn up paved roads on downhill bikes (the riding isn’t that rad there) we were also treated to a few sneaky previews of what to expect in the show halls over the next three days.

Obviously we’re going to save the really juicy stuff for later as we always like to start with a quick roundup of what’s hot and trendy. From our quick tour of the booths at Dirt Demo, some of the standout things we saw included fat bikes, electric mountain bikes, bright 1990s colours and, needless to say, oodles of 27in bikes.

It had to happen. German high engineer, Nicolai has produced a bike for those fat tyres.

 

In acid greeny yellow.

 

Obviously, it’s belt drive too. However, it’s still 26in!

 

The other bike causing waves was the Salsa Carbon Beargrease. Building up into a 23lb or so bike, it’s got a lot of people excited.

 

Beargrease pre-splatted

 

Enough clearance?
Fatbike-sceptic Dave gives it grudging props.
Comes with a matching fork.

 

And then there’s the electric mountain bike phenomenon. Here’s Scott’s suspension bike. There’s also a large range of them from Cube, Lapierre has a couple, as does Haibike. We’re going to get some in to play with soon.

 

Zoomy enough for you?

 

For sure (schure!) we’ve been seeing a lot of the Euro styles on show. Bibshorts over white T-shirts, skin suits over large people and, well, this sleeveless boiler-shorts setup.

 

More actual bikes to follow shortly…

Chipps Chippendale

Singletrackworld's Editor At Large

With 22 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.)

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