Interbike Exhibition Day 2 Overview

I’ll be honest – I have no idea how my day got so busy yesterday.  But I got to meet-up with tons of people and got tons of great content for ya’ll.  Just a matter of having 45 minutes per post to sit and write it…but with only a few last places to hit up on Friday, I’ll be able to get there.

In the meantime – here’s a brief glimpse into everything I did yesterday…

First up was a pow-wow with the folks from RacerMate – who make the CompuTrainer and their new software suite called RacerMate One.  While ‘One’ isn’t due out for a few more months, I did get a chance to play with it a bit, and I must say it’s far improved over the existing software.  Though not a ton of new features per se, just more cleaned up.  I’ve got video and much more detail to share in a little bit.

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I then headed over to Garmin’s booth to talk to them and their newfound sibling (acquisition) MetriGear.  You can read all about Garmin’s new Vector power meter here in this post.

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After an uber-fast job at writing up that post (ya’ll wanted to here the deets pronto!), I skipped over to PedalBrain and talked with them for a while.  Very cool stuff, and I’ll post that one on Monday.

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After PedalBrain I zigzagged back across the floor, first passing the BMX area…

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…then passing some bike racks that were really really cool…

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…then passing an interesting looking Hydration solution that doubles as a backpack and holds 2 liters of water…

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…though on my journey I pondered simply just sitting down in the lounge…

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…but I had a place to get to – which was the Quarq booth to checkout their new mountain bike Cinqo.

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If you missed my previous post with Quarq and their new announcements, check it out here.

From there it was off to a great discussion with the Timex lead developer around both the Global Trainer, as well as just the future of the product lines…stick around, I got lots of great details coming there.

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Next, I got a bit of a tour of the ANT+ Health and Fitness vendors doing ANT+ integration with various indoor fitness equipment.  Though that started at the LeMond Fitness booth…with Greg LeMond:

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Then I played around with their new ANT+ bike trainer (that requires no tire!) that I got to try outdoors a few days earlier.  Look for more details on that as well.

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After I was done in the Health and Fitness area, I backtracked over to the Wahoo Fitness guys to checkout their iPhone bike case design.

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Of course, no journey would be complete without nutrition – so I got some of that along the way:

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And last but not least…when you’re running tired…the only viable solution out there is to apply…MORE COWBELL!

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Thanks for reading, and get ready for another slew of posts posts around all things Interbike.

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  1. Is the LeMond trainer very noisy (compared with others)?

    Is it hard to move, for instance a 53×12 with a cadence of 90?

    How much will it cost?