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The Official Eurobike Newspaper | www.bikeshowdaily.com September 5, 2019 THURSDAY INSIDE: Latest news Show highlights What’s on today PRODUCT ROUNDUPS: Lighting Sunglasses EBIKE Off-road apparel Sustainable apparel OVERVIEWS: Seatposts: droppers and suspension Next-level eMTBs Carbon MTB wheels Shop tools for e-bikes Smart clothing Electric gravel bikes Footwear Tires Thursday, September 5, 2019 3 CONTACT US TABLE OF CONTENTS VoxPop Advertising Editorial Tom Kavanagh, Publisher Doug McClellan, Editor in Chief How have current trade conflicts impacted your business? .......................................4 [email protected] [email protected] Golden Age Eurobike awards 9 Gold Awards and 5 new Start-Up awards ....................................6 Titanium without tears A radical new process can ease the difficulty of making titanium tubing ............6 Wrenchers’ delight Heavy-duty e-bikes require heavy-duty professional shop tools ......................... 14 Not just for novices Aggressive new e-MTBs appeal to advanced riders ..................................................20 TODAY Getting down to the nitty-gritty The electrification of gravel bikes is sparking new bikes and parts ....................24 September 5 IoT is now a thing FRIEDRICHSHAFEN The “Internet of Things” approach is taking hold in cycling ...................................26 0 0 Brighter, smarter and smaller 16 C (73 F) Bright lights make it easier to cycle through the big city ....................................... 28 Showers Green with invention Apparel brands work to reduce their carbon footprints .......................................... 32 TONIGHT TOMORROW In stitches Bike shoe makers borrow knitted upper tech from football boots ......................34 0 0 (500F) (620F) 9 C 17 C Shots from the floor Showers Mostly Cloudy Scenes from the opening day of Eurobike 2019 ........................................................... 64 A GUIDE TO EUROBIKE STAND NUMBERS A & B = MAIN INDOOR HALLS DA = DEMO AREA EXHIBITORS COURTS FG = OUTDOOR AREA WEST “FREIGELÄNDE WEST” FG-0 = OUTDOOR AREA EAST “FREIGELÄNDE OST” INCLUDING DA FW = FOYER WEST F0 = FOYER EAST ÜO = PASSAGE EAST ”ÜBERGANG OST” 4 EUROBIKE SHOW DAILY LIVE FROM THE SHOW Thursday, September 5, 2019 WHAT’S ON TODAY VOX POP THURSDAY, SEPT. 5 How have the current trade conflicts Show Dates: Foyer West impacted your business? Business Days: Wednesday, Sept. Job Fair 4 – Friday, Sept. 6 Whether you’re looking for a job in Festival Day: Saturday, Sept. 7 the bike industry, or you’re looking to Frank Huang hire, the Job Fair is the place to go. Kogee Industrial Show Hours Individuals and exhibitors can submit Taiwan 9 a.m. – 6 p.m. job postings for free, and Eurobike will post them online and on the big Because it’s between China and the U.S., it might bulletin boards in the West Foyer. be a little bit good for Taiwan. All Day / Every Day Events FO-106 We have a factory in China, but our factory in Velomobile Show China only supplies the China market. Because Foyer East Vehicles that close the gap between of the trade war, some of the buyers will go to 15th Eurobike Award bicycles and cars Taiwan to buy parts, because if you buy the Exhibition of the award-winning parts in China maybe it will be a little expensive. I think right products A1-105 now it’s not very clear, but it’s the trend. Greenstorm Open Air Grounds East/ Enter a lottery for a chance to drive a Jae Mann Park Behind Halls B4 and B5 Tesla Model 3 for eight months, and Hauteworks Demo Area many other prizes. South Korea Choose from approximately 1,000 test bikes to ride on more than 10km A7-400 We don’t have enough trading going on to (6 miles) of test tracks. Thule actually feel it. We make bike accessories like Buy a Thule Vital hydration pack for these smart lights. For example, when you brake, Foyer East 30 euros. All proceeds go to the Apa it will light up just like a car light does. We do Recumbent Bikes and Velomobile Sherpa Foundation of Nepal. have buyers from the States and we’re currently exhibition talking with buyers from Australia. A4-303 Hall A1 Ortlieb We used to manufacture in South Korea, but we recently moved to Cargo Area/E-Mobility Area Jonas Deichmann prepares for the China, so we’ll have to see. People are talking about it but we’re not See how cargo and e-cargo bikes Cape to Cape Challenge of 18,000km actually feeling the pressure right now. Except for the States I see no offer new solutions for urban (11,185 miles). problem yet. logistics, along with trends and new micromobility vehicles such as Torsten Link Thursday, Sept. 5 e-scooters. Hall A1 is also home to the Bike-discount.de increasing number of suppliers to the Germany 8 – 10 a.m. e-bike industry, including established Conference Center East/Rooms and new e-bike drive makers. We sell all over Europe and worldwide. Of course Berlin and Paris we sell to England, but the rate is very low — I Cycling Industry Leaders’ Foyer East would say in the low single-digit range. I think it Breakfast Blogger Base/The Wriders’ Club could make things easier for us, because it could The Blogger Base, supported by the get more difficult for English companies to sell 8:30 – 9:45 a.m. Wriders’ Club, gives international over here. Foyer East/Blogger Base bloggers from the bike and travel Wriders’ Club Supporter industries a place from which they Lucas Toledo breakfast can engage with exhibitors and Bignay (GiFly) visitors, track down trends, and post Argentina. 10 – 10:45 a.m. live on social media. The Eurobike Conference Center East/Room Social Wall provides an overview of We develop our product in Argentina but we London posts published with the hashtag produce in China, so the trade war will affect Eurobike Academy: #EurobikeShow. Workspaces, our market for sure, the cost will go up. We’re Environmental compliance 2019 available for accredited bloggers, importing from China into Europe and the U.S so — WEEE Open Scope, German have free WiFi, coffee and catering. for that reason the taxes will affect our business. packaging law and further challenges for the bike industry Foyer West But we’re really flexible and we’re thinking to Sascha Heinz and Lukas Ebbert, Service Area move our assembly line or part of our production to [other] markets. Go4Recycling (In German and The Service Area, started in 2017, One of them could be Europe for sure, because there we have 35 English) pools products and services to percent of our sales. improve the marketability of bicycle 10 – 11 a.m. products for retail and industry. Ken Bloomer Foyer East/Eurobike Stage Exhibitors can help in such areas as Enve Composites Blogger Base: Blogger and merchandise management, logistics German Office Industry — How does a successful concepts and digital sales platforms, collaboration work for both along with insurance, anti-theft We do business in Europe as well, and one of our sides? security and ergonomics consulting. important trade partners is in England. We work Alina Jäger, Jan Deichmann, Mirjam The Service Area includes a lounge with Saddleback, which is a top-end distributor, Reisch for discussions. New this year will be and they’re out of Bristol, so all of these short presentations given during the discussions are relevant to us. 10 – 11 a.m. day by Service Area exhibitors. Conference Center East/Room Rom It’s going to ultimately drive up pricing for us, Press conference: A glimpse Passage East regarding the Chinese imports and stuff, because we can’t absorb into the future of South Tyrol, Start-Up Area those tariffs. We’re looking at different ways of how can we change from the art of trail building to Some 50 start-up companies have the supply chain, where either we’re manufacturing somewhere else, the challenges of the bike hotel small booths to show their inventions or that we are warehousing in Europe. We’re looking at different industry throughout the show, while a bar and logistics opportunities there as well, which also play into Brexit. lounge area encourages networking. We have a Plan B, but we’re hoping we don’t have to use it right now. I don’t think anybody knows what’s going to happen, but we’re CORRECTION not sitting around waiting to see what happens. Plan B is that we A story in Wednesday’s issue of the Eurobike Show Daily said the patents service the business that Saddleback takes care of [in Germany and for the DT Swiss Star Ratchet system had expired. According to DT Swiss, Austria] through the warehouse that we’re setting up in Rotterdam. only some of the patents have expired, while others that protect key parts ■ BS of the star ratchet technology are still valid. We regret the error, which was made in editing. Thursday, September 5, 2019 LIVE FROM THE SHOW 5 10 – 11 a.m. Woom/A3-102 Press conference with founders Christian Bezdeka and Marcus Ihlenfeld 11 a.m. Yuba Bicycles/A1-715 Guided tour of Cargo Area for visitors and journalists 11 – 11:45 a.m. Foyer East/Eurobike Stage Eurobike Academy: Creating innovation through knowledge transfer partnerships Geraint Florida-James, Edinburgh Napier Univ. and Mountain Bike Centre of Scotland (In English) 11 – 11:45 a.m. Conference Center East/Room London Eurobike Academy: GDPR for bicycle retailers Ulf Blume, LBU-Beratung (In German) 11 – 11:45 a.m. Conference Center East/Room Rom Eurobike Academy: 3D printing carbon fiber frames for production Bill Stephens, StudioWest (In English) 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. Foyer West It’s My Bike press conference Martin Mai and his amphibious electric recumbent bike, the Aqua Quad.