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The Official Eurobike Newspaper www.bikeshowdaily.com Day 1 Aug 28, 2013 Out for good fun Electric Avenue 5 Demo Day visitors get lucky 12 Easy-on e-bikes transform cities Stiffed by Stiftung Circular reasoning 6 Critical test blamed for e-bike sales drop 34 Wheel makers have lots to decide AEG goes missing Ford folds 10 But ContiTech drive makes debut 37 Dahon inks deal with auto maker Wednesday, August 28, 2013 3 All Day Events Wednesday, Aug. 28 Table of Contents Out for good fun Open Air Grounds West (in front of hall B1) 11:00 BMX Flatland Show: Deep Autumn Chris King (B1-304) Demo Day visitors get lucky as rain holds off ...................................................... 5 Technical Service Demonstrations Zeppelin hall and Open Air Grounds East Company founder Chris King and senior Stiffed by Stiftung E-Bikes/Pedelecs technical services technician Ed Rogers will Critical consumer test causes e-bike sales to plunge by €50 million ........... 6 An overview of the market and spacious test lead 45-minute demonstrations of Chris King tracks hub service tool, hub adjustment tool, and VoxPop bottom bracket grease injection system, What's the future for e-mountain bikes? .............................................................. 6 Foyer West followed by a Q&A session EUROBIKE AWARD Campy expands Eurobike is the trade fair of innovations, and 13:00 Components maker eyes tri and OEM markets ...............................................10 the Eurobike Award represents the highest Foyer East accolade for bicycle-related Eurobike Fashion Show Electric Avenue innovations. Functionality, design and Easy-on, easy-go e-bikes transform city streets ............................................... innovative features are honored. The award 14:00-16:00 12 is held in cooperation with iF Design. Foyer East Eurobike Opening Ceremony Saying ‘no’ to helmet hair Entrance West featuring German Chancellor ‘Air bag’ helmet stays hidden in a neck collar ....................................................21 Test Course: Recumbent bikes Angela Merkel Dr. Merkel’s remarks will be broadcast live in In perfect harmony eSocialBike (ZH-200) the East Foyer (Fashion Show stage area) Bob Giddens would like to teach the (bike) world to sing ............................22 eSocialBike Contest Download the eSocialBike contest app from 14:00 No stopping them the Apple App store and Google Play; follow Conference Center West, Room Schweiz Despite UCI’s caution, disc brakes come into road bike mainstream ....... 24 the tasks to earn points and win prizes, VSF… all-ride: the bicycle dealers’ including new e-bikes, an iPad mini and seal of quality Putting the ‘e’ in e-bikes more. Ends at noon Friday. In German. Speaker: Uwe Wöll. Organizer: VSF e.V. Without these systems, an e-bike is just another bike .................................. 26 Dare 2b (B5-606) 14:00 Rolling around Tour De France winner Oscar Pereiro New sizes, disc brakes give wheel brands a lot of decisions to make ....... 34 joins Dare 2b to launch his new signature Chris King (B1-304) line. Technical Service Demonstrations Light on the Lycra Lezyne (B3-106) 14:00-15:00 Urban riders want bikewear that doesn’t look it .............................................. 38 Lotto-Belisol Team Edition Lezyne iXS (B3-100/101) Kit Raffle Hans “No Way” Rey, Richie Schley, Sole mates Szymon Godziek, Guido Tschugg Enter raffle to win the toolkit given to team There’s no ‘right’ cycling shoe, but you can’t go wrong with these ........... 40 members. One entry per person; winner They and others sign autographs at iXS. chosen on Saturday. Need not be present New Products 14:00-15:00 to win. See dozens of the newest, shiniest products at Eurobike ............................... 42 Shimano (A1-200) Marcel Kittel Shots from Demo Day The winner of four Tour de France stages will give an interview and be available for a meet Hot new bikes, cool new clothes and the Allgäu cheese queen ................. 54 and greet. Ford folds 16:00 Folding bikemaker Dahon signs global deal with automaker ................... 56 Foyer East EUROBIKE Fashion Show Today's Weather brought to you by 17:15-18:00 Castelli (B5-505) Peter Stetina and Andreas Klier Meet Team Garmin-Sharp members Stetina of Boulder, Colo., and Klier, the now-retired German Classic specialist. B2-209 17:30-18:00 Castelli (B5-505) Happy Hour Today Join Castelli for live music, cold drinks, 19°C (66°F) snacks, special guests and more. A couple of showers in the morning; 18:00 otherwise, mostly cloudy Win a Lezyne Team Edition Foyer East kit given to members of the Eurobike Award Presentation Lotto-Belisol Team; visit booth Tonight B3-106 to enter. 18:00 Entrance West 12°C (54°F) BioLogic (B4-401) Rapha Evening Ride Partly cloudy Donation event Eurobike and the British cycling apparel Donate to World Bicycle Relief and get a Bike brand Rapha invite you to take part in a Mount Plus for iPhone 5, Bluetooth Smart group ride tonight and Heart Rate Strap or Cipher Cycling gloves. Thursday evening. Tomorrow (MSRP €28-€69) 18:00 22°C (72°F) 09:00 Endura (B5-504) Sunny to partly cloudy Conference Center East, Room Rom Endura Party and pleasant ADFC—TechTalk 2013 | Panel Celebrate with Endura, the Scottish apparel Discussion brand in typical Scottish tradition — “Cycle Logistics—Future of city logistics or Tobermory Whisky (and other whiskies), vision of nerds?” In English. beer, cake and more. Organizer: Allgemeiner Deutscher Fahrrad— A quick guide to stand numbers at Eurobike Club e.V. 18:30 Magura (A2-204) It’s easy to find an exhibitor located in one of the main A or B halls. But where 11:00 Stand Party are E1, FG, FW and ZH? E1 is a temporary hall in the outdoor grounds between Foyer East Join Magura and friends for beer and finger halls A5 and B3. It divides the open air ground into FG (Freigelände = open air Eurobike Fashion Show food. Live DJ. Cycling is the trend. And bikewear is not only ground) into FGW (open air ground west) with mtb and BMX courses as well an eye-catcher. A large spectrum of events Hosting an athlete appearance, party or as exhibitor stands and FGO (Freigelände Ost = open air ground east). offers you the possibility to catch up on other event at the show? Send it to us no the topics of the industry from a functional later than 3 p.m. for the next day’s issue at For example, if you are looking for Karbon Kinetics, you’ll find the stand number point of view. The fashion show will reveal [email protected]. FGO-119 – which means they are located at Freigelände East, stand number Please include your booth number and a what cyclists will be wearing in the saddle 119. FW and FO stand for “Foyer West” and “Foyer Ost” (= Foyer East). ZH next year. contact name, phone number and email address. stands for “Zeppelin Hall” which houses mainly e-bike suppliers as well as an e-bike test track. Wednesday, August 28, 2013 LIVE FROM THE SHOW 5 While they’re out for good fun, Demo Day visitors get lucky The picturesque region of Argenbühl resounded to the clicks e-bike companies that appreciate the “Demo Day is great to test bikes, but of gears – electronic and regular – the ticks of chains and the opportunities Demo Day provides. also to look at new product, clothes, whir of electric motors as the Eurobike Demo Day landed in the “It’s so important to get people out every aspect,” she said. town of Ratzenried yesterday. riding our bikes,” the company’s Dan Toon Wils, research and development Parsons said. manager of Ridley, was happy to be Other visitors stuck to strictly pedal- standing in front of an empty stand powered pleasures. because it meant that most of his bikes Mark Gouge, who attending Demo were out on test. The new X-Night Day on behalf of Road Bike Review and pro-level cyclocross bike was proving MTBR online magazines, tested a BMC especially popular. Team Machine SLR01 and had his eye on “We’re seeing big growth in a disc-equipped Giant cyclocross bike. cyclocross outside of Belgium,” he said, “Demo Day is so much better here “particularly in Germany and the UK.” than at Interbike,” Gouge said. “It’s lovely Meanwhile, BMC put its new Alpen and green, and also very organized.” Challenge AC01 on display for the first From the retailer’s perspective, Demo time yesterday. Day offered a chance to catch up with It is designed to fill a gap in the developments across the industry. market for light, fast and stylish town Steven Paul, product manager of bikes, and was available to test with Mountain Equipment Co-op, a chain a range of gear options – electronic of 17 outdoor stores in Canada, tested Shimano hub gears and Shimano and mountain bikes and road bikes in the SRAM derailleurs – as well as removable Anticipated bad weather held off trade visitors,” said Dirk Heidrich, morning, including the Ghost ASX. bespoke mudguards, bespoke lights and long enough for Demo Day to draw who manages Demo Day for Messe “We’ve visited the vendors we already innovative security features. significantly more visitors than last year: Friedrichshafen. “We are very happy have and are looking at bringing over Nobody was left out: Swedish luggage 2,318, compared with 1,938 in 2012. There about the weather. The weekend is some new road bike brands to Canada,” company Thule, which launched its bike were also slightly more journalists: 732, looking rainy, so we are pretty lucky.” he said. luggage at Eurobike 2012, was celebrating from 37 countries, compared with 728 in Heidrich said the test fest is drawing And Paola Domanico of Godoy Bike the range’s success by offering trailers 2012.