My Interbike wish list:

2.5 WTB Dissent 29er tire:

Fifteen G Crankset:

New Hope V2 brakeset:

Light and Motion Seca 700 and Stella 200L

My favorite things from the show (in no particular order):

Big Dumb Pug (custom built Big Dummy with Pugsley wheels):

Belt Drive with Rolhoff hub:

Spooky Bikes Prototype DH bike:

Metrigear Vector Power meter:

Lenzsport PBJ 7” travel DH 29er:

Sub 26lbs carbon Comencal:

Carbon Ellsworth Enlightenment 29er:

Calfee Bamboo Bike:

BMC Team Machine:

Intense Tracer 29er:

Well it’s Sunday, I got a nice long road bike ride in Saturday and some time in the dirt today.  It was a welcome break to the hectic schedule that was kept over the three day Interbike trip and sure beat all the walking around Vegas.  On my rides I had some time to reflect on what I saw and to really appreciate Hammerhead Bicycles for asking me to tag along.

I suppose I should recap day three since I didn’t get a chance to do that Friday.  For the most part it was relatively uneventful as I was pretty exhausted from sheer sensory overload of all new goodies that I wanted when I got home.

As I wondered around with no agenda, I stumbled upon the White Industries booth.  If I were to ever build up a single speed I would certainly want to rock these cranks on it.  They were just so good looking.  I particularly liked their double double crankset rear cog combo that would allow you to run two different gear ratios.

Goodies from the White Industries booth:

Next up was something pretty sweet, a belt driven Ventana.  This was at the Gates Carbon Drive booth.  The Ventana lured me in but it was the belt drive / Rolhoff combo that really impressed me.  I’m not sure when it’s due out but talk about a super clean set up.

Belt drive Ventana:

Belt drive Rolhoff:

As we were starting to run out of time, we made our way over to the Hope booth.  If you haven’t tried Hope brakes consider yourself lucky as you’re likely saving quite a bit of cash.  However, once you do you’ll be trying to figure out how you’re going to afford them.  They’re that good.  They had some new redesigned levers and a new lightweight race brake set that was going to be coming out soon.  What was cool with the new brakeset was that if you ran the new Hope hubs you could use the three bolt rotors to save some weight.

New offerings from Hope:

Close up of new rotor:

So that wraps up day three of my first trip to Interbike.  Once again I’d like to thank Cody and Justin at Hammerhead Bicycles for inviting me to go.

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