Madison’s iceBike* Show Report 1

This weekend sees the first opening of the Madison show iceBike* to the public. By all accounts, there are thousands of people registered and they’ll all get to see a preview of 2016 (and in some cases 2017) products on show. We had a preview with the trade earlier this week, and here’s what caught our collective eye.

Let’s start with the bikes:

Saracen Myst Carbon Team Prototype. This is one of the team bikes that the Madison Saracen team have been riding since the World Champs last year. Saracen asked team manager Will Longden for a ‘still muddy’ bike to show off on the booth – and when this turned up, it was true to the brief and still literally dripping mud, with barely a clean surface on it.

 

 

 

 

Over at the cleaner side of the booth, the Saracen Kili Flyer carbon was on show in this single available build. There’s also a (Martini Racing) frame only option.

 

 

 

 

 

Madison’s complete product range is in this giant telephone book sized brochure. Despite the digital revolution, sometimes it’s easier to leaf through some pages.

Moving over to the Genesis booth (whose brochure was shot by Sim Mainey of this parish) there were some great bikes on show. This Genesis High Latitude is a £1549 29er hardtail with a 1×11 setup and an SR Suntour Aion fork and some chunky 2.35in Maxxis rubber.

Moving over, there’s this Genesis Tarn 20, a plus bike with the full Boost/WTB Scraper rim/Maxxis Chronicle treatment. It’s the bike that the Genesis guys seem most excited about this year and we hope to get one in on test soon.

 

Genesis showed off the latest incarnation of the Caribou fat bike, with hugely bright paint job and very loud CST tyres.

That’s a taster of the bikes on show, we’ll let you see the components in the next story.

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