Eurobike is the biggest bike show in Europe, as you can probably imagine from the name. It’s truly enormous, spanning multiple halls and multiple floor levels, along with a sizeable outdoor testing area. Brands use it to showcase new and existing tech, bikes, clothing, accessories, and some weird and wonderful miscellaneous stuff too. We spent two days wandering the halls sorting the wheat from the chaff so you can view an easy-to-digest highlight reel.
There are some things that warranted a separate article in their own right, which allowed us to get into the nerdy tech details in a little more detail. These included the introduction of 3D printed chamois pads, the 350TPI criterium-specific tyres from Challenge, and Classified’s deal with seven wheel brands. For everything else, we’ll furnish you with all the key details below.
If you’re not heading to Eurobike then sit back and have a scroll, you might find some surprising things, and if you are, be sure to try and find these things in person.
Brand new tech
This year you’d have been forgiven for thinking Eurobike was an eBike show. While some years there is a flurry of new releases at the show itself, this year brand new gear was a little thin on the ground. Nonetheless, we did manage to weedle a sneak preview of some new wheels from Hunt, a brand new Basso road bike, tyres, and some prototype sunglasses that are currently gracing the youthful face of Tadej Pogačar as he tries to defend his yellow jersey.
Wheel brand Hunt didn’t have a stand of their own this year, but we did spot them skulking around with some wheel bags, so we cornered them in a dark alley* and got a sneak peek of the new 48 and 60 Limitless UD Carbon Spoke wheels. These wheels don’t officially exist yet, but expect more in the coming weeks. The basic premise is very similar to the current Limitless wheelsets, but this time with stiffer, unidirectional straight pull carbon spokes as opposed to steel.
In addition to these, there’s a treat for the proper wheel nerds; a new, better-fitting, stickier rim tape that’s been in development for 18 months.
*they asked us to have…
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