Post Four from the Taipei Cycle Show ...
There are going to be a lot of pictures in this post. And they uploaded in a strange order and it was a pain trying to get them organized. If you stay until the end there are some actual riding pictures from a jump jam held in Taichung the day after the show.
Lots of pics inside,
I am going to start with something that I thought was pretty cool. This bike is the IF Mode. It is a folding city bike. A bike enthusiast made a working model of this bike. It is to scale and it folds in the same way. He made the model from pictures in magazines and on the internet. He did not have an actual bike to make it from. I spoke to the engineer responsible for the Mode and he said it is pretty much a miniature version of the Mode.
The perfect opening line at a bike show is "I am taking pictures for a blog post on pinkbike.com." Marketing directors, Engineers and Owners of companies will pretty much hand product to perfect strangers if they know it will be on pinkbike. Try it at the next show you go to ... (Editor's note - we don't recommend this.)
Hayes Marketing Manager Len Cabaltera was more than happy to hand over the new Hayes Prime Brakes on the first day of the show and when I walked past searching for something to shoot he went into the back of his booth and brought out all of the Sun wheels for this year.
Once I had pictures of the Sun rims I decided to take pictures of different wheels. I had met the guys from CrankBrothers the day before and decided I would see how far they would let me go with their wheels. They were smart enough to have one of their Taiwanese sales associates watch over me. She was rather attractive, so I did not mind ...
I went from there to taking pictures of random wheels.
The day after the show I took the train south to Taichung. Some industry types showed up and we all had great time.
Me and the Banshee Legend will be at the Banshee booth at Sea Otter. Stop by and say hello.
Keep Riding,
Rob Dunnet
Thanks for the coverage though.
