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Back from Interbike
With 500+ pictures, reams of notes, and severe jetlag...
Back from the Interbike show in Las Vegas, and quite an experience it was too...
There's a whole stack of good stuff to report on, but also a whole lot of emails, orders etc for me to catch up on. So for now, a very mini-report indeed:
Las Vegas is not a bike-friendly city - but for a first-timer like me it was, in a vastly extravagant, over-the-top sort of way, fun to see the architecture and blatant money-grabbing commercialism gone mad. The various casinos along the Strip try to outdo each other with sheer spectacle - so the Paris here has a half-scale Eifel Tower, and a Montgolfier balloon...
The first two days of the show (I arrived on the second day) are 'Outdoor Demo Days' when attendees are bussed out to the mountainous and arid Nevada desert to play on bikes. Luckily there was a good road track as well as the off-road trails, so I got to try a good selection of US recumbents, a few folders and several other bikes.
The rest of the show was spent in the usual trade show hall, and it was a very productive show indeed, with LOTS of interesting items to report. More later!
Posted on 12 October 2004
Your comments ...| From: Simon Ward ([email protected]) on 12 October 2004 |
| Oh, so it's the Eiffel Tower ... here was I thinking that you'd got severe jetlag after a visit to Blackpool :-) |
| From: John Shackford (http://www.pbase.com/john28jul) on 13 October 2004 |
I don't suppose you actually enjoyed yourself then Peter?
All the best,
John. |
| From: Legs Larry (@here) on 13 October 2004 |
| Commiserations, Pete. I was going to say that Las Vegas is absolutely the worst place I've ever visited in the history of all things ever, but on reflection I didn't even like it that much. That is why I only spent 20 minutes there... |
| From: steve green (steve@witzend) on 13 October 2004 |
| Legs, you make it look like Didcot (but with lights). |
| From: steve green (****************) on 17 October 2004 |
Does no-one read this BB in Las Vegas?
Legs was a bit scathing, and I was downright abusive.
I'll give it another try: Legs makes Las Vegas look like Newport (Gwent), but with sunshine. |
| From: Stan Smith ([email protected]) on 18 October 2004 |
| I agree with Legs Larry...the Interbike Show should not be in Los Vegas. They should move it to Denver which is a bike friendly city. |
| From: andy scaife ([email protected]) on 18 October 2004 |
And you you by any chance live in denver, Stan?
Would be quite good for all the Denver guys to see us sea-level creatures wheezing round the test track! York cycle-courier founder chris is from Denver and he always says it's great for riding. |
| From: Ann Onymoustopolis (no thank you) on 19 October 2004 |
How about holdingit in Lancaster.
OK so it'd be quite a bit harder for most of the exhibitors to attend but that would be more than compensated for by the stunning location,cycle frienly (ish0 city and views of the mountains across Morecambe Bay. |
| From: Scarface ([email protected]) on 20 October 2004 |
| You'l have a hard time getting anyone to disagree; Lost Wages is an abysmally horrid cesspit of greed, concrete, lust and excess of every kind. The only reasons the Interbike show is still there are the competetive manner in which all Vegas businesses and municipal administrators pander to any sort of convention and (probably more telling and, at the same time, much more shameful) the fact that most of the US bike dealers relish a chance to see the stage shows, gamble, party, and generally indulge themselves. For a truly bike freindly city, try Portland, Oregon. I don't live there, but it would be nice. |
| From: Span Tally ([email protected]) on 20 October 2004 |
| Nononononononono. Las Vegas is like Woking, but with lights /and/ smog. |
| From: ibike ([email protected]) on 21 October 2004 |
| I live in vegas and your so right it isent a bike friendly state hell no one here sells trikes I had to get mine in Ca so yes I think they should move it to a more friendly place than here! |
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