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The Eurobike experiencePicture-heavy report from the German show, showing the locations, the halls and the Zeppelins! Product news to follow... Back from Eurobike, and a very productive show it was! More reports follow, but we're now working hard to finish VV27 and get it to print ASAP so may be brief... This report may well break the site layout with its wide images... apologies.  Wednesday was the demo day in the Austrian mountains... this is the view over Lake Constance, with Germany on the right and Switzerland across the lake. Loadsa rain, this during one of the clear spells.  Some of the stands at the demo day. This was just one section - the stands were spread over quite an area, with many more centred around a large catering hall seen in the background of this shot. Trails led up to the hills behind if you didn't mind getting muddy, or you could ride on the roads around the site.  The streams were in spate with all the rain. More stands beyond this...  What's this long queue of muddy MTBers?  Ah, they're waiting for a bike wash so that they can return their test bikes clean...  Some avoided the queues and used the stream...  TV crews were out in force, well wrapped against the rain. Here a cameraman hitches a lift with Paul Hollants of HP Velotechnik on a Scorpion trike. As the only recumbent manufacturer there HP received plenty of press attention.  ...as did Dahon, seen here demonstrating the fold for the cameras.  On to the show! Spotted this 'old and new' scene outside the show entrance...  There are 12 huge halls like this to get round...  This stand even had a wind tunnel so that visitors could try out different riding positions...  They're arranged around an open-air area where the off-roaders could show their skill... (ignore the disembodied hand at the bottom - it's a multi-image panorama and seems to have assembled oddly! May fix it later...)  Some did jumps...  Others raced mostly on the ground...  Yet more did strange tricks and acrobatic stunts...  To accommodate even more exhibitors the show has expanded into the Zeppelin hanger (Friedrichshafen being the historic home of these iconic airships)...  But that wasn't a Zeppelin - just a radio-controlled model flying round the main atrium of the exhibition. This is a Zeppelin...  And here's the Zeppelin hanger, housing a mix of stands and the electric bikes test track...  Post-show exhibitors and visitors flock en mass into town for a meal, packing out the restaurants overlooking Lake Constance. Very kindly Ben and Klaus of Yuba Mundo (the bikes in the foreground) gave me a lift on the back and we cruised past the 'Eurobike traffic jam' of departing vehicles at the end of the show, to reach the restaurants well before the crowds. Picture taken just before our first beer :-) Brief product news follows. More pictures and details will of course be coming up in Issue 27, out later this month! Posted on 3 September 2007
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