On Show 2002

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13th Japan International Cycle Show

Images by Miwako Sasaki/Japanese Cycle Sports

• Japan's International Cycle Show held in Tokyo
• Shimano's Hidenori Nodera (Team Colpack) talks about European cycling
• Ernesto Colnago with his special Ferrari CF-2 model
• Specialized show off World Champion Mario Cipollini's bikes.
• A very oriental decoration at the Japanese Show.
• The "Gundam" (a very popular Japanese animation) model MTB is very cool.
• Mavic introduce their new MTB wheel for use on the road.
• Bianchi collabrated with Japanese Kimono Painter and made a beautiful bike.
• Festina's Mr. Hamdache want to support Japanese riders and races.
• New animation movie about a bicycle race "A Summer of Andalusia"

Bicycling Australia Show 2002

Images by Kerry Moroz/www.phantomcycles.com.au

• Pearl Izumi's new Vortex MTB shoe
• The top of the range Vaper by Pearl Izumi
• The road version of the Vaper
• 2003 Norco Team Shore. Your drop-off is ready sir.
• The Norco Shore, ready for business
• Cervelo Soloist looks rather fast
• The Cervelo P3, as used in the TdF
• The Triple Ti Eggbeaters from Crank Bros.
• Slightly cheaper, the Twin Ti Eggbeaters
• 2003 Kuota Khan carbon road bike
• Catlike helmet in Euskaltel Euskadi colours
• World Champion colours on the Catlike Kompact
• Cinelli Aliante
• 2003 carbon XLR8R frame
• Bianchi XL Carbon monocoque
• Moser Emmeottantuno and the Emmeottantduo behind it
• The Giant Revive, coming soon to a café near you
• Giant's DH Comp and DH Team downhill bikes
• Designed for ONCE, The TCR composite bikes from Giant
• Hillbrick merges aluminium and carbon
• A Hillbrick frame with dimples
• Another look at the dimpled frame
• A De Rosa by any other name
• Just some Stuff from Kona
• Marzocchi's Super Monster forks. For the big hits
• A pair of Shimano's carbon road wheels
• One way to keep skin on your knees, a front loading stem
• Blackburn's Hydrapak bladder
• A full suspension Birdy
• I think we broke it
• Customs seize a suitcase of Birdy's being imported into the country
• Craftworks FRM-125 "Freeride" bike

Interbike 2002

Day three

Images by David Visintainer/www.bikecafe.net

• Carbon Pinarello Time Trial bike
• Fondriest Fly SAT frame with spanky graphics
• Giant's TCR Aero frame
• And the TCR Composite frame, as used by ONCE
• Oakley's D2 watch, as worn by Tyler Hamilton

Images by Cyclingnews

• The guts of the American Classic hub
• Gianni Casati in front of his stand
• Mr Casati shows off one of his bikes
• The Casati Laser, another carbon/aluminium framed bike
• Beautiful carbon work
• A view of the cockpit
• An Extran bar and Boogie's method of eating
• Looking down on Fondriest's fantastic paintwork
• A close-up of the Fondriest's paint
• Clean carbon work on the TF-1 frame
• The TF-1 in all it's glory
• A CycleOps trainer at the Graber stant
• Inside a PowerTap system
• Park goes all '60's to display the 2003 parts
• Speedplay's new Frog II cleat

Images by Robert Gilbreath/www.TexasBikeTrails.com

• The Salsa stand, yummmm…
• WTB's new range of MTB tyres

Images by Rob Karman/www.roadbikephotos.com

• Bontrager Racelite carbon forks
• Bontrager carbon wheels
• Bontrager lightweight machined rim
• Inside FSA's new oversized BB
• FSA's new carbon bar and stem
• Alloy stem, carbon faceplate
• FSA Carbon Pro team cranks for MTB's
• FSA Carbon road cranks
• FSA Carbon road triples
• FSA's twin bolt carbon stem
• New carbon 'cross chain guide from FSA
• FSA Headset Measurement Tool
• Time Trial ring from FSA
• Gary Fisher's Sugar 29'er
• Giant takes on 'cross with the TCX series
• The 2003 DH Team frame from Giant
• The Giant NRS, just as popular as always
• ONCE comes to the masses now that Giant is selling the bikes
• Giant's TCR One
• FluidForm moulding makes tubes do strange things
• Klein's new Maverick based bike, the Palamino
• Klein Q Carbon race
• Klein Q Carbon
• LeMond's Carbon and Ti road bike
• Another look at the LeMond
• Ti lugs and carbon is big this year
• Another Ti frame by LeMond
• Look's "Eggbeater" design pedal
• The Look KG461 in black
• Look KG486 comes in black too
• Look's Kx Light, another black frame
• The Look Credit Agricole KG381
• Look Cx7 and Cx6 Ti Pedals
• The Look Jalabert KG381 Team
• The KG461 from Look
• The KG386 looking very nice
• The Look KG486 doesn't just come in black
• Stealth black on carbon finish
• The stealth black KG381i
• Tapered lugs on the KG381
• The KG461 also comes in white
• Orbea likes their orange frames
• Subtle dropouts on the Orbea
• 2003 Euskaltel Team Orbea
• 2003 TT frame for the Euskaltel Team
• Orbea make a very nice womens carbon frame
• The womens carbon bike in the flesh
• The Trek 5200 Triple in black/pearl/carbon
• Trek's new touring/sport bike
• The access port on the Trek
• Trek's Diesel now comes in a "freeride" flavour
• The new Trek Fluid
• Trek's 100mm travel Fuel, great for those longer rides
• One of many options from Trek's Project One
• So many Project one bikes, they were hanging from the roof

Day two

Images by Rob Karman/www.roadbikephotos.com

• Want a road brake under 100g? How about 80g?
• Another look at the 80g road brake. Called the Cat Claws, and made by cat-usa.com
• Burke Swindlehurst, Olympic Champion Marty Nothstein, and Russian Sprinter Vassili Davidenko
• Cipo's bikes. Very animal
• Hayes magnesium and carbon lever
• Roberto Heras checks out his handy work
• Kona's Dr Dew. Commutery-goodness
• For the old singlespeeders among us, full suspension
• Mavic CrossMax SL wheelset
• A closeup of the Mavic CrossMax SL
• The Speedcity 700c disc wheels from Mavic
• The hubs on the Speedcitys
• Beautiful workmanship on the Merlin Cielo
• The headtube on the Cielo
• The titanium meets the carbon in a beautiful manner
• Even the dropouts have style
• Merlin's Solis, new for 2003
• Double butted Ti tubing, the future in framemaking?
• Roberto Heras, Floyd Landis and the boss, Johan Bruyneel
• The rear of the Specialized Epic
• Specialized S-Works roadie
• Spinergy's carbon and Titanium wheelset
• Time's Zpedal, ATAC performance on a platform
• Titec Carbon riser bars
• A carbon MTB stem from Titec
• More carbon from Titec
• Titec's RIP stem, all alloy
• The Tomac 6 Shooter, for the big drops
• Tomac's new Revolver, lightweight XC rocket
• And the Revolver comes in at 22.55lbs
• The carbon stays on the Yeti AS-R

Images by Robert Gilbreath/www.TexasBikeTrails.com

• Specialized S-Works Epic with Fox Brain technology
• George Hincapie is still signing autographs
• Independent Fabrication's Eric Roman Pink 29" single speed.
• A Trek rep shows off the new Liquid full suspension bike.
• The Orange booth in all its hucking glory
• Johnny T with his new Tomac Revolver bikes.
• A closer look at the new Shimano XTR Dual Control Shift Levers
• XTR Dual Control Shift Lever Display

Images by David Visintainer/www.bikecafe.net

• The Marzocchi girls doing whatever it is that they do
• 2003 Fizik Roma seat
• And for the animal lovers, a zebra seat
• Top tube graphics using Fondriest's SAT technology
• A close up of the same top tube
• Even seats can be personalised
• Poor George, still signing autographs
• Magnesium and carbon Pinarello Dogma
• The sole of the Sidi Ergo 1
• Sidi's new Ergo 1 road show

Sinclair Imports party

Images by Cyclingnews.com

• Hey, that tickles. Axel Merckx signs a jersey
• The Carnac ice sculpture
• And the Cyclingnews.com ice sculpture
• Greg LeMond adds his signature to the USPS jersey
• Some of the big names in the industry let their hair down
• Tyler Hamilton, Axel Merckx and George Hincapie strike a pose

Day one

Images by Robert Gilbreath/www.TexasBikeTrails.com

• The Santa Cruz Blurr, lightweight VPP action
• The first big climb on the testing trail. Not fun for those on downhill bikes.
• New Ellsworth - 4.5 inches of rear travel and only 21.5 pounds.
• Outdoor Expo from atop the Specialized trailer.
• Gary Fisher is all smiles as he waits to go ride with George Hincappie.
• George Hincapie gets ready to take a Gary Fisher 29" out on the trails.
• George and Gary just before they hit the trails.
• Two times world champion Roland Green meets his fans.
• Johan Bruyneel was all business in the Trek booth.
• The crowd lines up to get into Interbike 2002.
• The view of the show from atop the Elsworth booth.

Images by Rob Karman/www.roadbikephotos.com

• Robbie and his Litespeed, rider not included
• One of the nicer lugged frames on show
• Ron Keifel, legend of 80s US racing, Greg LeMond, Tour winner & world champ, Richard Bryne, Mr Speedplay
• Tara Llanes was very popular with the punters
• George Hincapie signing for the fans

Interbike Preview

Images supplied by respective companies

• Titec's oversize flat carbon bar
• Titec's carbon riser bar
• Titec's riser with 2" rise
• Titec's El Norte handlebar
• The El Norte stem
• Truvativ GigaPipe bottom Bracket
• The underside of the Nixi seat
• The Titec Nixi womens saddle
• The Titec RIP stem
• Ritchey's carbon road fork
• A close up of the Ritchey fork
• Truvativ Rouleur crank in black
• The Rouleur with a polished finish
• The TCR Zero in carbon
• Carbon framed TCR One
• Aluminium framed TCR One
• The alloy framed TCR Two
• The TCR One Aero framed bike
• The TCR One Aero frame
• Aero framed TCR Two
• Giant's new VT-1
• Titec XC carbon seatpost
• 2003 Yeti ARC
• Yeti AS-R in black
• The AS-X is Yeti's "Freeride" model
• World Cup proven DH-9
• General purpose XC frame, the Fro
• Yeti's Kokopelli makes a great 24 hour weapon
• And for the roadies, the custom Road Project Carbon

Cycle 2002

Images by Mark Sharon/marquev@clara.net

• Air Frame Folding bikes
• The Air frame unfolded
• An Airnimal in both states
• Airnimal had 3 styles (Hybrid, Race, Tour) on show
• The Airnimal Folding High Performance
• The view from the upper level
• The Reevu helmet
• Here is the Reevu being modelled
• And here is what you see when wearing the Reevu
• A mini electric scooter
• The Monoc TC2 with carbon stays
• Another look at the show
• More folding bikes
• Can you see a theme here?
• Edge Bikes Blade frame
• A fully built Edge Blade
• The I-Cycles mountainbike
• the electric scooter again - 20km/h top speed
• still more folding bikes
• Declerq's Ridley Supercross bike
• The Supercross again
• Principia's REXe Pro
• Ridley's full carbon Damocles
• Robbie McEwan's Litespeed
• Serotta's soft-tail damping system
• Beautiful dropouts on the Serotta
• Carbon meets Titanium
• The headtube on the Serotta

EICMA 2002

Images by Tim Maloney/Cyclingnews

• Colnago's new limited edition (750 bikes) Colnago-Ferrari CF3, with Ferrari V-10 F1 motor, (Motor not included)
• Uncle Ernesto makes fat tire flyers! Annabella Stopparo will ride a XTR equipped Colnago MTB in 2003.
• Ugo De Rosa's newest model for '03, the Dual
• Detail of the Dual's full carbon rear triangle
• Updated for '03 , De Rosa's Planet now with carbon rear stays
• Detail of the De Rosa Dual's monobox/carbon join
• Troy Corser's Ducati Bianchi EV3
• Dekker, Friere, Bettini & Popovych all have new Colnago C-40 HP's for the upcoming World Championships
• Challenge has re-launched the old Clement tread patterns, such as Paris-Roubaix
• Luigino Pista , old-school frame, old Campy parts, very limited edition
• Detail shot of the '03 De Rosa's Planet
• PMP's new Fixed Gear Hub Kit
• Detailed shot of the PMP tensioner and hub
• The whole PMP kit
• Falco Salvodelli's Giro d'Italia winning Coppi KXR8
• The Giegi Spider jersey was the most popular model this summer
• Battaglin's new Mantra; carbon fibre tubes, CNC integrated head tube, bottom bracket and seat cluster
• Fondriest's new U 107 frame ; Aluminium tubing, Mizuno CF fork, and full CF monobox rear
• The new Pinarello Onda fork is made to look like this.
• Pinarello Dogma detail: Real 100% Magnesium!
• Multo Carbonio! Battaglin Mantra rear detail shot
• The Dogma is made from Magnesium AK 61 tubes from Dedacciai, exclusive to Pinarello for the next two year.
• Detail of Pegoretti's double plate fork crown, not cast like in the old days, but a modern CNC version.
• Specialized's new Pro MTB shoe
• Specialized's new Pro Road shoe
• Grrrrr… like a tiger
• Battaglin's Tre Cime drew a lot of interest at EICMA Milano

Part 2 of Tim Maloney's EICMA report

• A well used Brooks saddle
• Another Brooks saddle. How many KM's will it have seen?
• I'm not sure how well this will work with lycra.
• Another Fi’zi:k animal hide saddle
• ITM Uniko stem and Unika bars
• Northwave Evolution - Nylon sole, Titanium arch
• Northwave Revolution, their new mid-range shoe
• The sole of the Northwave Evolution
• Times new VX Special Pro frameset
• The pointy end of the VX Special Pro
• Some nice carbon work guys

Eurobike 2002

Tim Maloney's Eurobike Part 1

Images by Tim Maloney/Cyclingnews

• Colnago C-40 B Stay HP detail
• Colnago's new Carbon Fiber Crank
• New Colnago Dream B-Stay ; Aluminium & Carbon rear triangle
• Continental Attack Tyre
• Continental Force tyre
• Bell's Ghisallo; voila the Banesto version
• Two special edition Pneumos
• Yee Hah! It's the real Lone Star Pneumo!
• Eddy's new bike… no Carbo load this.
• Fast Road Iron: Robbie's Litespeed Ultimate from TDF 02
• Eddy Merckx Carbon GX2
• Another shot of the Eddy Merckx Carbon GX2
• Not Led Zepplin: Cyclingnews manage to arrive at Eurobike by dirigible every day and avoided the traffic jams!
• Lotta Sole: New Sidi Carbon Ergo1 shoes
• The sole of the Sidi Ergo1
• Tiny Tiso Mech! Shades of Huret Jubilee
• Nicolai DH… The swingarm from hell
• Detail shot of the Rohloff 14 speed gearbox in the Nicolai DH
• Nucleon FR freiheitradler, jawohl!
• Xen as in Zen… Giro's cool new MTB lid
• DT Swiss Truing Stand: Wheel Nerd Not Included

More from Eurobike

Images by Bike2Build/www.bike2build.nl/

• New Adidas shoes
• More Adidas shoes
• A pair of the Brave Machine pedals
• The new cube airwing blackline, new shock, new XTR group, new sid team fork
• Cube AMS Comp full suspension bike with a cool matt powdercoating paintjob
• Close-up of the cube ams linkage, how about the matt champagne colour finish?
• Side view of the Cube Limited 4
• Marzocchi dirtjumper III , very thick lowers and inner tubes, 130mm travel, super smooth, tough cool suspension
• FSA RD-120 (120g) roadstem
• Giant Acid slalom frame
• Klein also has a 'Maverick' full suspension bike
• LOOK CX6 TI Ironman triathlon pedals
• This bike shocked the world in 1990 or something
• Chris Boardman broke the world speed record with this bike. Boardman rode 56km in one hour on a wooden track in Birmingham
• Maveric bike with the legendary new full suspension concept and their own fork
• The Maverick sure got some attention!
• Merlin Cielo, exclusive ti-lugged technology blends carbon-fiber and titanium, the ultimate frame materials
• Cutting-edge technology, lifetime warranty, Merlin stands behind their work
• The weapon, Orange 222 World Cup DH bike
• The Sub3 up front
• Pearl Izumi's look nice don't they?
• The Pearl Izumi's again
• Silly light airshock from Risse Racing
• Ritchey Comp stem, costs about 20 euro
• Ritchey Pro stem, costs about 35 euro
• Ritchey WCS stem with the new oversized 31.8 handlebar-clamp
• The GT Ruckus i-Drive looks awesome
• Scott roadbike as used in the Tour de France
• Another pic of the new XTR disc-caliper, we love it, don't you?
• The front caliper is a piece of art
• We won't say any more about it.
• The new 'look-a-like' dura ace pedals already seen on Lance Armstrong's bike this season
• The finest rim-brakes ever made
• Say hello to the Time roadbike. Used in the Tour de France by the Bonjour team, its very exclusive
• The Time bike again, it's made from carbon and we like it
• Time Freeride platform/clickies
• Time carbon stem
• Best crankset ever? It sure has the looks
• Smooth looking XTR rear disc brake
• Long cage XTR mech
• The front hub looks very nice

Another collection of Eurobike pics.

Images by www.cyclecomponents.com/

• New aero tubed Boeris road bike
• Hubs on the Thorius Shado Carbon wheelset
• Orbit full suspension frameset, with strange shock linkage
• Thorius Hubs on the Boeris
• Quattro carbon aero wheels
• New cranks from Stronglight
• Coppi road bike, from the famous Italian maker
• Classic Italian bike manufacturer Basso
• Lightspeed Ti bike with full XTR grouppo
• Formula's new four pot disc brake
• A spanky Lightspeed Ti road bike.
• Tomac 204 Magnum. 8 inches never looked so nice.
• Eddy Merckx looking very sweet.
• The Tomac 204 Magnum in all its glory
• A Ti Tri bike from Quintana Roo
• Pretty Ti frame dropouts
• Marzocchi Super-T with new mudguard
• Lots of Marzocchi Bombers
• USE Anti-Dive fork. One leg, no brake dive.
• Northwave's new MTB shoe
• Northwave's new stupidly light road shoe
• Ritchey try the over-size tube idea again.
• The rear of the Specialized EPIC.
• New Azonic Eliminator DH design
• Truvative Holzfeller crank. Ich bin ein Holzfäller und fühl mich stark
• Marzocchi girls doing what the do... Whatever that is.
• Truvative Holzfeller crank and trials bashring
• Santa cruz VP10 and Shiver DC forks
• The new Intense Spider X frameset with VPP technology
• Magura Marta SL disc brake

More images by www.cyclecomponents.com/

• Hayes composite brake. Ti, Mg, CF, SS, Al.
• Cinelli carbon seatposts
• Cinelli XLR8R. Lots of curves
• Mavic Dee-Max DH wheelset
• Zipp carbon wheels... Very light
• Mavic Cross-Max wheelset
• ITM carbon bar and stem
• Close up shot of the Mavic Crossmax hub
• Da Bomb Cherry Bomb freeride frame
• More Mavic Wheels
• Da Bomb Mind Bomb
• Deda carbon Aero bars
• Mavic Cosmic Carbone SSC
• Da Bomb CR8
• A very pretty Guerciotti road bike
• Another Guerciotti road bike
• A very pretty Viner
• Da Bomb CR8
• Look KG486 time-trial bike
• De Rosa with CF stays
• The Look KG486 bike again
• De Rosa with CF stays
• Pinarello Prince
• Mmmmmm... Colnago.
• Mmmmmm… More Colnago.
• FSA stems and headsets
• 2003 Maverick with SID's
• The new 2003 Maverick with brand new Maverick forks
• FSA Team Carbon Pro cranks
• AX-Lightness seats. Very light

The last series of photos from www.cyclecomponents.com/

• Marin Attack Trail Pro with Adj. shock positions
• AX-Lightness seats. 69 grams?
• A sweet Marin Hardtail
• Merlin Ti hardtail
• Shimano PD-7750 A.K.A. The Lance Pedal
• Rocky Mountain RM7
• Shimano XTR grouppo
• Giant's Acid dirt/street frame
• Shimano's gold LX group. It also comes in the usual grey
• Easton EA70 stem
• Easton CT2 Carbon Tech seatpost
• Lance Armstrong's Giro TT helmet
• Lots of new Ritchey gear
• Ritchey 20mm and QR disc hubs
• Change your mind on colour? Ritchey stem faceplates
• Gaerne downhill specific boot
• New Ritchey V2 seatpost
• Ritchey bar and stem
• Lots of Orange bikes
• Vantuyl MTB with gold LX group and Magura Quake forks
• Scapin Ottobulloni
• Vantuyl Ti Road bike with carbon stays
• Vantuyl Ti MTB with 2003 XTR and carbon stays
• Closeup of the carbon stays on the Vantuyl
• Giant TCR Team
• Once TCR Team with gold
• Rocky Mountain ETS-X70
• Trek carbon Fuel
• New Marin with Quad VPP technology
• Close up shot of Marin's Quad system
• Marin Attack Trail Pro with Adj. shock position
• Lampre Daikin team Fondriest