Randoms Round 4 - Eurobike 2017
Sometimes you stop and think, what I need right now is a helmet that looks like the hairpiece from a Lego man. Or, wait, no. No, you never think that. But some helmet manufacturer did.
Magura was quick to market with an electronic dropper post--the Vyron. No cables to get contaminated, spooge oil or send you into fits of rage as you attempt to route them through your frame... What's not to love? The delay between pressing the button and the post actually dropping. That bit needed some work. Magura, however, have returned with an updated Vyron post that they claim is four to five times faster than the original model. It's available in 100, 125 and 150-millimeter drops.
Is it brand new? Nope. Don't care. Topeak's mini ratchet set is dope. The Ratchet Rocket Lite NTX fairly bristles with tools, including T10, 15 and 25 TorqBits, weighs about as much as a mouse fart and stows away neatly in a tidy pack.
Look, this knife can saw through car tires and yet slice a piece of paper with the razor-sharp precision of a samurai’s katana! Tradeshows always have some kind of wacky pitchman pulling stunts in the hope that some of the bleary-eyed, gacked-out attendees will stop in their tracks for a second and check out their wares. Well, it worked on me this time.
The guys from Joe’s were riding back and forth over a mat of nasty spikes. You see all the blue dots on the tire? Those are Joe’s Eco-Sealant that have plugged up the myriad punctures. And that’s just one small section of tire. They’d popped the hell out of the whole hoop and the tire hardly lost any air. I felt the tire before and after and you could hardly tell it dropped any PSI. Impressive.
Rondo has a handful of gorgeous RUUT models on display at the show. While one of their carbon models won a Eurobike award, I am partial to the steel version here. The Twin Tip fork lets you slacken or steepen the geo, based on your day's ride.
Ergon showed up to Eurobike with a whole lot of noteworthy products, including innovative saddles, new grips and this hydration pack. The new BA2 10-liter, All-Mountain pack features an adjustable harness that accomodates a wide range of rider sizes, a fixed mount for action cams (for follow footage), room for hydration bladders or back protectors and a bevy of cleverly-designed pockets.
Plenty of riders on the EWS circuit ride 7iDP's Transition knee pads. Sam Hill is one of them. Hill, however, asked the company for a version with a bit more protection on the shin and along the sides of the knee. The result is the Transition Pluse, which will retail for $79.95. As with the model it's based on, this is a completely strapless affair.
I know, another e-bike. I was impressed, though. Focus' Project Y road model doesn't look like ten pounds of shit stuffed into a five-pound sack, which makes it the welcome, odd duck in Eurobike's massive flock of e-bikes.
WTB spent a lot of time interviewing women riders and finding out which saddles worked them and which ones left them in a world of hurt. The end result is the new Koda saddle. The company also found, however, that a lot of their male test riders dug the saddle. There's, apparently, a fair bit of overlap here, which isn't terribly surprising when you consider that we are actually the same species. The new Koda saddle features a recessed middle section, medium-density padding and a slightly shorter nose. There are several models ranging in price from $39.95 to $129.95.
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I can see the benefits on a touring bike designed to be massively loaded up, but it seems a touch unnecessary on a standard road bike?
I live in a fairly hilly city, and I think the hills are the main barrier to the number of cycle commuters, e bikes overcome alot of that barrier.
It's unbelievable that government grants to purchase e bikes in the uk are not available and the government scheme in place to assist bicycle purchase via wage deductions is capped at £1000 hasn't been raised to allow for the extra expense of many ebikes. whereas there are many such grants/schemes in the rest of Europe.
But sadly the car is the all important symbol of wealth, esp. in germany. "only poor people and loosers ride bikes"
All I'm saying is that any sealant under the sun, including the stuff in my cabinet right at this moment, will seal nail holes. In fact, I Suspect a tubeless casing itself will seal a hole that size pretty well with NO sealant. When I get a half-inch cut, however, Stan's doesn't seal that. If you wanna impress(which is the point of trade show demonstrations) me show me that you work better than one of the other 50 different sealants already on the market.
That don't impress-a-me much!"