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The REALLY big show!
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A BIG view of a tiny part of the show...
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First booth to see upon entering .. Louis Garneau from Canada!
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The Jittery Joe's team uses LG clothing and bikes!
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The rear end of the BIG mini jittery Joes vehicle
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LG cyclocross iron.
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Super expensive Selle Italia saddle.. 1200 Euros? Ouch!
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The Waterford booth...
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Waterford wild paint job..
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Frame using Richrad Sachs "Newvex" lugs ... in stainless steel too!
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The Grand Poobah hisself, Richard Schwinn, promotes Waterford's new sizing cycle.
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Don Walker, organizer of the famed North America Handbuilt Bicycle Show
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Pashley of England still busily makes traditional bikes with chram and practicality...
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I understand that Toto the pouch was just here minutes before I arrived!
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This bike has a dual top tube for robustness!
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Pashley makes certain Moulton models under license.
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A VERY unusual saddle shape!
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Superlight saddle undersides showing Kevlar and carbon weave.
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Yes, (what next?) a saddle bag with carbon panels!
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A very trick brake caliper indeed!
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One of the many many very light bikes at the show.
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Read and weep...
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Minimalist and elegant saddle.
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White carbon was everywhere (It play havoc with photo flashes!)
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This bike was just being pieced together...
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Ouch! The flash freaked out on this white reflective ensemble!
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And the H2O cages too...
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The pogo stick on steroids!
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These rubber tubes gave the pogo stick it's boost!
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Believe it or not, this young fellow jumped about 6 feet in the air easily (it looked that way at least!)
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Pactimo had some really attractive vintage poster jersey designs.
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A high end "dancing cheek to cheek" saddle?
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Carbon bikes seem to be going back to a lugged look!
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Pretty impressive TT bike, no?
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"Blue" bikes are headquartered in HotLanta Georgia!
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Felt bicycles had the coolest cruisers at the show!
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Their hardtail Pro MTB looked really dialed in too.
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Of course, this is what Felt is best known for, kick butte race bikes!
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Carbon, but painted!
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24 inch wheels make this a kid's dream machine...
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This Fuller~Felt "Gravity Assault Land Speed Race Cruiser" is a heck of a SHOW bike!
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Carbon saddle nestles in faired fusilage.
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Good old number 44!
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Felt's "motif" cruisers were so neat!
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Guru is an impressive line.. pushing toward full custom in al materials.
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It's the NEW Reynolds steel set! Somehow I missed the info on what's different...
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Independent Fabrications in Boston area are Reynoilds users...
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Moots is still a high craft maker.. Here their way neat single speed mtb.
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Dig those dropouts....
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Dig those welds!
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Sweet S&S coupler installation...
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Deda carbon cranks are distinctive...
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This Kona was a World Champion in some MTB discipline .. very interesting full suspension bike...
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Rav-X introduced a killer light and refined carbon frame set...
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Quite a few un-suspended mtbs were shown.. Another new trend?
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Ritchey's BreakAway bikes & frames were as impressive as ever...
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A Rivendell designed frame set available through super distributor Quality.
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Apparently named in honor of the famous Blue Lips Engineers Riots of 1897.
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Litespeed claims this to be the lightest production frame in the world, which is believeable!
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1.7 lbs ain't chopped liver!!!
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Those are carbon fiber shards used as decoration (and making an editorial comment?)
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Orbea had this striking display near the exit...
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Sram company had some neat robot models that kinda-sorta looked like bike parts...
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Race Face's new road cranks, The Cadence, said to be the lightest all aluminum cranks in the biz...
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Co-Motions SoftRide bean, S&S coupled tandem...
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Rocky Mountain had some very intersting full suspension bikes...
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This is the BMC TT bike we were all dying to see details of during the Tour (Oddly not covered by OLN! Wonder why?)
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A track iron...
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Notice the yet-different-again seat cluster area?
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Carbon brake pad holders, anyone?
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Ellsworth is another distinctive MTB specialist...
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Look familiar? Dedacciai had a bunch of variations available to frame builders...
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Orbea has certainly ARRIVED as a top line enjoying huge acclaim...
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Great color!
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The new (stiffer) Opal model has a great weave going for it..
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The MTBs are looking awfully good too! Say, isn't it mountainous in the Basque region?
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The "Ordu".... Time Trail specialty supreme!
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It's still hard to beat the beautiful ORCA for ride-all-day comfort with kick-butte performace!
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