Interbike Day 3 Sep 26, 2008 - Time to go home!
Last day of the show! Nearly time to go home! After this mornings great ride with my friend Max (see previous BLOG post) I was ready to do my last few appointments, finish up and go home. Here are a few photos from the show today:
Felt is a proud sponsor of the Garmin Chipoltle team:
One of the new Felt women's bike. The Felt paint schemes this year are very nice!
It is my guess that Rock Racing is bike shopping. I saw the RR crew at the Sinclair (Ridley) booth the first day and today I spotted Tyler Hamilton and Johan Museuw chatting. Museuw is bringing his line of bikes to the states this year.
A very nice Cinelli track bike!
This Raleigh was sporting wheels built in our shop by Toby Webster, Raleigh employee and former Spoke & Sprocket mechanic.
As promised - more photos of updated road groupos. This is the new Campagnolo Super Record 11 speed:
SRAM has also updated their top line Red group. No major changes but a few tweaks and a new crank:
Shimano had big news with the first update to Dura Ace in a number of years. The Dura Ace group is pretty much all new for 2009 and sports changes in every component:
Shimano was also displaying and demoing the new Dura Ace electronic shifting.
Steel is making quite a revival this year, this Molteni ornage Colnago Master was just one more piece of evidence.
I just love Tommasini's pain jobs. This Tricolore was especially nice.
FINALLY! A computer for those of us who can't see up close anymore. BBB displayed this big readable screen in a number of models. You can bet we will be carrying them in the shop.
Knog had a number of new products, including more glove options.
3T is back! 3T is back and has a number of great items. They have made a big investment in Carbon fiber technology and hired a former F1 designer to head their program. The result is some of the best engineered carbon bars & stems I have seen.
While for most folks the show is all about bikes, bike parts, & cycle clothing there is actually a lot of other things that go on including seminars on retailing, merchandising, and advocacy. A number of vendors are also present selling computer & retail support, Point of Sale systems and the like. The folks from Edge technologies (based in Tacoma) sold us our POS system years ago and always been great to work with. It is a powerful, flexible system that is continually upgraded, and easy enough to use that even Jim Finnell can manage it (most of the time!) They are always at the show and great fun to hang with!
While the system is great for bicycle shops, it is flexible enough that it works well for many retail operations. Many of the Edge folks are former retailers, so they know what kinds of things we need! I would suggest that any retailer needing a POS check them out!
Penny displays the Profit Premier POS to a potential customer:
Joe of Edge talking with another customer.
Leslie of Edge is working as well. As you can see the booth was busy!
By about 4:30 many of booths are being packed up, even though the show is open until 6:
Time to head home. Once I am home I will start to sort through all of this stuff and see what will work for our shop. You can bet that we will have a lot of new, exciting product for next year!
Dr Spoke
Felt is a proud sponsor of the Garmin Chipoltle team:
One of the new Felt women's bike. The Felt paint schemes this year are very nice!
It is my guess that Rock Racing is bike shopping. I saw the RR crew at the Sinclair (Ridley) booth the first day and today I spotted Tyler Hamilton and Johan Museuw chatting. Museuw is bringing his line of bikes to the states this year.
A very nice Cinelli track bike!
This Raleigh was sporting wheels built in our shop by Toby Webster, Raleigh employee and former Spoke & Sprocket mechanic.
As promised - more photos of updated road groupos. This is the new Campagnolo Super Record 11 speed:
SRAM has also updated their top line Red group. No major changes but a few tweaks and a new crank:
Shimano had big news with the first update to Dura Ace in a number of years. The Dura Ace group is pretty much all new for 2009 and sports changes in every component:
Shimano was also displaying and demoing the new Dura Ace electronic shifting.
Steel is making quite a revival this year, this Molteni ornage Colnago Master was just one more piece of evidence.
I just love Tommasini's pain jobs. This Tricolore was especially nice.
FINALLY! A computer for those of us who can't see up close anymore. BBB displayed this big readable screen in a number of models. You can bet we will be carrying them in the shop.
Knog had a number of new products, including more glove options.
3T is back! 3T is back and has a number of great items. They have made a big investment in Carbon fiber technology and hired a former F1 designer to head their program. The result is some of the best engineered carbon bars & stems I have seen.
While for most folks the show is all about bikes, bike parts, & cycle clothing there is actually a lot of other things that go on including seminars on retailing, merchandising, and advocacy. A number of vendors are also present selling computer & retail support, Point of Sale systems and the like. The folks from Edge technologies (based in Tacoma) sold us our POS system years ago and always been great to work with. It is a powerful, flexible system that is continually upgraded, and easy enough to use that even Jim Finnell can manage it (most of the time!) They are always at the show and great fun to hang with!While the system is great for bicycle shops, it is flexible enough that it works well for many retail operations. Many of the Edge folks are former retailers, so they know what kinds of things we need! I would suggest that any retailer needing a POS check them out!
Penny displays the Profit Premier POS to a potential customer:
Joe of Edge talking with another customer.
Leslie of Edge is working as well. As you can see the booth was busy!
By about 4:30 many of booths are being packed up, even though the show is open until 6:
Time to head home. Once I am home I will start to sort through all of this stuff and see what will work for our shop. You can bet that we will have a lot of new, exciting product for next year!
Dr Spoke
Labels: Campagnolo, Chipoltle, Colnago, Dura Ace, Edge, Felt, Garmin, Interbike, Profit Premier, Red, Shimano, SRAM
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