September looms on the calendar.

I miss Interbike and all the odd and interesting components from some of the smaller less-well-known booths. It was fun to speculate which ones would go on to some success (like the iBert front-mounted child carrier) and the ones that wouldn't be quite as successful (the Taiwanese knockoff of the Burley Piccolo child trailer/rack combo which placed a vertical load behind the rear axle). And visiting the folks at the Ebon / Co-Union booth to see what wild new horn / grip / accessory design they'd come up with in the past year. Usually nothing in the aisles so magnificently misbegotten as for example the PMP crank, but you just never knew.

I will admit to buying that child trailer prototype, as I had a little one at the time, and I will say that we put successfully many hundreds of miles on it - after I loaded the adult bike with front bags to compensate for the vertical load in the rear.