EuroBike 2010 - A Look Inside The Event
Its not all about next years new bikes and products at Eurobike 2010, OK it is, but there is also a whole lot more to it than that. Inside you'll find photos from our week spent at Eurobike, including both interesting products and interesting people. Have a look to see what its all about!
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This is just one of the many halls here at Eurobike! They are huge old hangers from when this complex was used to make the big zepplin airships.
This is the layout of the place, everyone of those halls looks like the one above - that's a whole lot of bikes!
This is one of them, they where floating about all week, buzzing around and scaring the shit out of people who had never seen one before.
This is the outside area of the show where you have a ton more stands as well as the huge bar, stage and dirt jumps.
This is the motley PB crew here at Eurobike, from left to right you have Jacob Gibbins, Mike Levy, Jordan Holmes, Karl Burkat, Si Paton and Ali Mclennan.
This was some random old dude wandering round the show one of the days with this huge rim, we asked what the hell it was all about, but he didnt speak a word of English...Guesses at the bottom!
Rain on the our Mercedes rental car on one of the dark mornings before driving in to Eurobike.
This is us in the Merc doing 10,000 mph on the way home...
Some of the MANY Euro hotties wandering around trying to give you pamphlets that you don't want, hats you don't need, and random other crap, but they do look good, eh?
A massive part of EuroBike is having meetings with people from all the different companies. Here is Pinkbike's Mike Levy talking tires with Schwalbe's Henry Harrocks.
Every evening people open up their stalls, invite you over, and the place turns in to a huge city of bars, its all about the evening beers!
Bit of history now! This is Michael Bonney, he works for Orange bikes and is the man who has ran the teams. You know, the teams with Missy, Peaty, Minnar, Beaumont, Bryceland etc all on... important guy.
You see a lot of weird stuff here, but a pack of huskies pulling some fat dude around was up there with the best.
When there are 5 million stalls, you need gimmicks to get people in your own, and sweets do just as well as any other kind of nibbles.
Pinkbike front man Karl chatting downing beers at the end of a long day.
There was a lake jump on one of the afternoons out in front of the event, it was a good laugh and drew some good crowds.
You only need shout "DO A BACKFLIP" so many times before someone does one, good on ya lad!
Moments like this make the craziness of the whole event worth it, sat by a lake in the sun one evening chatting to like minded people and watching a load of fools getting wet.
Yet more of the ever important evening bonding beers.
Random people just milling about in the halls, looking for the next bit of bike tech to oogle at.
The only real riding shots I have taken all week, nice to have a rest.
Younster watches a guy bust out a fair sized NFC in the sun.
Team Pinkbike once again, this time at one of the many meetings in which we had to decide what to cover in the 5000 stalls here. Took us 5 days, but we just about got it done. More coverage to come!
Yet more Euro hotties.
Cars need gas and busy media people need Haribo. Here is Mike Levy's breakfast!
Pinbike's Mike Levy here sporting being as professional as ever. Think you put it on wrong, Mike!
Big time woks here at Eurobike, when you have this many people to feed everything is a bit bigger.
MTBcut's Stu Thomson chilling out between meetings.
Some sick little wooden bear thing saying Hi in German to us all
Cool tee! I don't know about you, but it pretty much nails it.
Last shot in this post is a cool one of us coming out of one of the many tunnels we go through every day on the way to and from the site. I Flew into Switzerland, am staying by a lake in Austria, and working in Germany all week. Good times!
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someone needs to go back in history class it seems...