Day 3 Randoms - Eurobike 2022

Jul 15, 2022
by Ed Spratt  
Just like that and we reach the end of Eurobike for 2022. From a few surprise reveals to plenty of e-bikes and even a mystery banana this year's event has definitely been something and here is a final wrap-up of what we found on our third day in Frankfurt.


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Shimano were showing off the recently revealed Allebike Alpha Polestar Edition.

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The gold suspension definitely creates a striking look.

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Aaron Gwin's current saddle of choice.

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Lizard Skins has brought back one of its first products - lever grips. The new iteration of this product uses its DuraSoft Polymer to try and improve brake feel. Lizard Skins sell them in a pack of four for $12.99.

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Retyre hasn't yet retired its idea of modular bike tires.

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Alpinestars had plenty of new products for 2023 with a nearly completely revamped glove lineup.

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Its jerseys have seen a redesign to make the graphics more subtle and the inclusion of more neutral and earthy colors.

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The same design process has been applied to the women's range with more natural color options.

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There have also been some small updates to the brand's protection range with plenty of options for everyone.

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Who knows what this is meant to be.

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Lezyne has launched Matrix air tag cases and a bottle cage. These are made from plastic, not aluminum, so they let ultra wideband signals through for more accurate, reliable tracking.

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To help seal up bigger holes in tires Lezyne now has the Tubeless Pro Plugs that are designed to fill larger gaps and offer a more permanent solution than plugs so you don't have to bin a tire after a large puncture.

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While only an early version was at the show, Lezyne was showing off its new Digital Travel Floor Drive pump with fold-out foot pegs.

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Gates had some really interesting belt drive bikes on display including this Sour Bad Granny.

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Fulcrum have added two new aluminum wheelsets to their lineup. The Red Zone 5 is aimed at XC/marathon riders, and the Red Metal 5 is for trail use.

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Liquishot's portable washer runs on a Bosch 18v battery ad puts out three litres of water every minute.

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Launched at the start of this week the new Trek Fuel EX-e really does look pretty normal for an eMTB.

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Eurobike doesn't get more exciting than this...


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92 Comments
  • 71 10
 “Puts out three liters of water every minute”…nice knowing you Lake Mead.
  • 36 10
 Some of us live in damp parts of the world not in SoCal.
  • 16 41
flag skywalkdontrun (Jul 15, 2022 at 18:10) (Below Threshold)
 @mudcycles: wow. yeah, because freshwater is a renewable resource.
  • 16 3
 @adamszymkowicz: it’s not?
  • 25 2
 @adamszymkowicz: What is rain?
  • 14 31
flag skywalkdontrun (Jul 15, 2022 at 19:02) (Below Threshold)
 @TheOriginalTwoTone: rain is caused through transpiration, which means most impurities, chemicals, and other pollutants both in the atmosphere and in surface or groundwater are present, and become more and more concentrated over time.
  • 45 3
 @TheOriginalTwoTone: literally every drop of freshwater that has or ever will be on the planet is here right now.
  • 24 1
 @mudcycles: the area I live in is classified as a rainforest, + 100 inches of rain a year. I grew up,with an abundance of the best drinking water in the world. Water waste was okay, however I learned there is a cost to making that abundance of water drinkable.

Don’t waste our natural resources.
  • 41 1
 @adamszymkowicz: Lies. Antarctica is making it as fast as they can.
  • 9 12
 @adamszymkowicz: not actually correct my dude.

Plants use sunlight to split water and burning hydrogen creates water
  • 1 1
 @adamszymkowicz: are you sure?
  • 4 7
 @evilbert222: burning hydrogen recombines the atoms, not creates it.
  • 11 1
 @hbar314: that Comment will have gone over way too many heads
  • 21 0
 @adamszymkowicz: The problem is the freshwater on the planet is not in places that are easily accessible to where humans choose to live. Like Nevada or Socal.......Sucking the ground aquifers dry in a century when they take many centuries to fill is not sustanable on a local level.
Secondarily, sucking groundwater out and disposing it into the rivers as wastewater causes it to hit the ocean and to no longer be fresh water.
In short, If it does not rain where you are, dont have a lawn....
  • 5 0
 @hbar314: oof; spot on, but ouch…!
  • 1 0
 Sometimes more water pressure is better. If you’re putting out 2x the water per minute but can wash your bike 1/3 the time, you’re saving water.
  • 3 0
 @boopiejones: To be honest 3L/min is not a lot.
the bathroom tap has a higher flow rate!
  • 3 0
 @mudcycles: very good point. This product relies on pressure, not volume to clean bikes. I’m in California where we have restrictions on our faucets. Maximum allowed is 1.2 gallons/minute, which is more than 4.5 liters. But since most of us use a garden hose instead of the kitchen sink, we’re using significantly more than that per minute. Average garden hose is more than 10gpm, which is 38 liters… more than 10x what this product puts out.
  • 56 0
 What about the banana though?
  • 16 0
 WHAT ABOUT THE MYSTERY BANANA???
  • 7 0
 Only checked in for the banana, honestly. We must know!
  • 24 1
 The Sour Bad Granny looks pretty sick
  • 10 0
 It’s a late 90s Kona Humu.
  • 7 0
 If you like that check out the Kona Humuhumu 29er. I picked mine up for $300.
  • 1 0
 Exactly what I was thinking 2016/17 Kona Humu
  • 3 0
 The name alone is pretty sick.
  • 3 0
 What cranks is it,looks like steel
  • 2 0
 How did they get the belt in the frame?
Doesn't look like you can open the frame.
  • 3 0
 @Mister-X: looks like a junction on the seatstay toward the bottom
  • 2 0
 @Mister-X: www.veercycle.com
not sure if it's this in this case but it can be done
  • 1 0
 @myshiningone: thx, theems like they made a special frame just for the fair.
There is no bolt on the seat stay in the frame pictures on the Sour homepage.

@p0rtal00 thx, didn't know veneer.
Just looked at gates homepage, since they showed the bike on the fair and there was no open belt system availible.
  • 20 0
 "Lizard Skins sell them in a pack of four" ... pack of 2 was too obvious then?
  • 60 0
 Pack of three would have been savage.
  • 7 0
 Obviously they are trying to signal that these are NOT very long lasting.
  • 3 0
 @FuzzyL: its probably to meet a price point. I've noticed in any sort of recreational activity they don't like to sell products for under $20.
  • 19 1
 Retyre caption joke should be retired. The product itself should go straight into the hazardous waste bin.
  • 4 0
 Agreed. Not all ideas are good ideas…
  • 3 0
 @sportstuff: Jorts would like a moment at the mic...
  • 19 3
 So who did that Trek Fuel rear end on the freeway?
  • 32 0
 The colour alone makes me uncomfortable.
  • 7 1
 They somehow made it look like an Ibis.
  • 6 1
 Hideous.
  • 4 0
 Is that an XS? That's usually the size you see with that kink.
  • 4 0
 ...nard knocker hump on top tube is new weirdness.
  • 11 0
 Ooh, clay colored stool camo and stolen valor olive drab, how bold
  • 1 1
 Nino Schurter riding an Ellsworth or a Niner!?
  • 1 0
 @adamszymkowicz: the hump in the top tube looks kinda like a Rossi all track trail
  • 11 0
 @azawad: flesh tone is creepy
  • 6 0
 @kingbike2: flesh on olive is such a bad combo
  • 7 0
 @kingbike2: It puts the lotion on the skin, so I can makes my bike pretty again.
  • 2 0
 @azawad: That's a dead ringer for the old offensive "flesh" colored Crayola Crayon. That alone was a terrible design choice, but then they went all-in and paired it with an olive colored fork. This is a disgruntled designer trying to get back at their employer, or a serious mixup on the frame painting line. I can't imagine anyone thinking this is actually appealing.
  • 10 0
 The only way you may not notice that Trek Fuel EX-e isn't a "normal" mtb is because the color scheme is so ugly there's no way you can see anything else.
  • 2 1
 @kingbike2: @trek 's design team has long been rumored to be colorblind. everyone's seen a cloud blue remedy with red decals before right? those are hideous. awful. it makes me wince to think about.
  • 1 0
 I think they were trying to match R-Dog’s Toyota.
  • 12 1
 Looks like a.... Niner?
  • 5 0
 Sad part is the Trek Fuel EX-e is considered "normal" looking. The majority of new bikes are so frakking ugly these days.
  • 1 0
 Still looks like an ebike and sounds like an ebike. That motor not that quiet
  • 2 0
 @edspratt I assume the Lezyne Tubeless Pro Plugs need to be inserted from the inside? Once you need to break the bead you might are well do a real TIRE patch (not a tube patch, which I've seen people attempt).

Unless they're saying that plug doesn't need to be glued / rubber cemented. Because getting the area clean of old sealant and dry in preparation for a tire patch is the biggest pain in the ass of the procedure.
  • 3 0
 If you're going singlespeed, I can't say enough good things about a Gates belt drive. Turn your low-maintenance bike into ultra-low-maintenance bike
  • 2 0
 Has to be a frame designed for it though, can't just belt up a bike with no seatstay break.
  • 2 0
 @littleskull99: Veer does this : www.veercycle.com

I’ll be interested in having real life feedback if anyone has tried it!
  • 1 0
 @Aqui: Good shout, I didn‘t know about them until now, thanksSmile
  • 1 0
 @Aqui: fair
  • 2 0
 @Aqui: I have a Spot Rocker, drive belts are amazingly quite and smooth the only down side is the front cogs are too large and they hit on rocks and logs damaging the belt
I switched to chain, cheaper more as cog ratio options but not cool
  • 1 0
 @Aqui: I'm guessing results might be less-than-stellar. Alignment on a belt drive is much more critical than a chain, so there's often more emphasis on stiffness with a belt-drive compatible bike than a chain-drive. Too much power and you might slip the belt or run it off a cog.
  • 2 0
 I like the idea of this portable pressure washer. Could prob even just grab water from a stream or ditch. Only this is the Liquishot 25.3 + Extended Field Equipment package is 690.00 €
  • 4 0
 That gold suspension does look really good!
  • 16 4
 Can't say the same about that green Lyric.
  • 2 0
 @nozes: I'm not hot on the green lyrik either but really @trek ? fleshy pink and olive green?
  • 3 1
 Gwinks saddle looks like your frank and beans could easily get trapped in the gap.
  • 16 0
 Probably why Aaron rarely, if ever, rides naked
  • 2 0
 I almost spit my drink out at the zip-on tires. You need to warn us with content like that.
  • 1 0
 The lever grips actually look like a really good implementation of the concept.
  • 1 0
 My first thought on seeing the disconnected brake lever was that someone was finally pushing wireless brakes.
  • 2 0
 That weird f*cking mannequin . "I'm an artist!"
  • 1 0
 Does anyone know what bars are on that Sour Bad Granny?
  • 1 0
 Give your Bad Granny a call!
  • 1 0
 SRAM finally make wireless brakes starting with the level.
  • 2 5
 Polestar does look really nice. It would be cool to see a more upright version for all-mtn/enduro but keeping that giant area for frame storage. Seems like most enduro bikes end up running the shock straight across and eliminating the opportunity for a substantial frame bag. I can't be the only one wanting a quiver killer that can run dh laps, but also lock-out for bike touring with some 40c tires.
  • 3 0
 You most certainly can.
  • 1 0
 @RonSauce: What bikes would you recommend as a top 5? Realistically needs 140mm of travel minimum.
  • 2 0
 @RonSauce: I misunderstood your comment.
  • 2 0
 Polestar = Schwinn logo
  • 1 0
 looks like a stash....er penis I mean
  • 1 0
 Is that a nude bike?
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