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Old 10-09-08 | 02:38 PM
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Originally Posted by daven1986
oh cool. im glad the one you found is available in the UK too! and somewhere where it can be test ridden (evans).

any other gems you saw?
Unfortunately no camera (yes, I'm an eeedjit)

dia-compe make a combination one finger/two finger brake (you use it on one side like a goldfinger and the other like a standard brake lever) as well as a load of other useful stuff
extrawheel bike trailers
"singular cycles" frames
hebie chainglider are even more awesome than I'd previously thought (I didn't realise you don't even have to touch the drive train to install it - no mess, no fuss)
London Cycling Campaign needs volunteers
BHPC.org.uk had a suprisingly big stand with some cool faired bents, a velokraft nocom (turns out they supply some marshals and timing people for battle mountain every year) and I think I saw Mike Burrows at the stand
Black Diamond Sabbath - saw it in the flesh. Very nice!
A company that has a similar setup to the Koga Miyata semi-custom tourer (the cool difference was their bike trailer which mounts onto bosses built into the frame)

Loads of other stuff (most of which you'd see in either eurobike or interbike pictures) including Theo Bos' and Shanaze Reed's olympic bikes on the shamino stand.

http://www.cycleshow.co.uk/ - tickets still available for Fri, Sat, Sun, I think

edit: also had an argument with the marketing geek from brompton about frames/handlebars/rear triangles/forks breaking, merc bikes (yes - we sold them the rights, no - we had a falling out and want our stuff back) and disc brakes. Finally got him to admit that "I'm not technical but if you want to talk to the engineer about breakages and disc brakes then he'll be back in 5min"
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