Sunday, November 06, 2005

Tokyo International Cycle Show 2005

Yesterday we caught the early express train to Shinjuku (in Tokyo) and from there we made our way to the Tokyo International Cycle Show, being held at Tokyo Big Site near Kokusai-tenjijo station. It was not nearly as crowded as the Auto Show that we went to a few years ago, but there were a lot of great displays of new product line-ups, as well as exihibitions from lesser known bicycle parts manufacturers. Great new forks by Rockshox and Manitou, mouth-watering bicycles from Giant and Surly, and some excellent lights by Cateye. We've marked out a Cateye Heart Rate monitor that Brian will likely buy when it is released in December.

Always on the lookout for 29er products, we found these tires by WTB:



Hodaka, a bicycle manufacturer we hadn't heard of before (except in association with motorcycles) had this cool display:



And finally, this advertisement says it all:

1 comment:

bernicky said...

$52 tires. :) Those must be some good tires. I pay about the same for my puncture resistent road tires.

Look like a great place to blow a few hundred bucks without thinking about it.