{"id":167,"date":"2004-03-07T09:37:22","date_gmt":"2004-03-07T13:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=167"},"modified":"2004-03-07T09:37:22","modified_gmt":"2004-03-07T13:37:22","slug":"toronto-international-bicycle-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/07\/toronto-international-bicycle-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto International Bicycle Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Was at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telsec.net\/bicycleshow\/\">Toronto International Bicycle Show<\/a> yesterday at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ricohcoliseum.com\/\">Ricoh Coliseum<\/a>. There was the usual tedious display of thousands of yet-more-suspended mountain bikes (zz!), but a few (mostly Canadian) things caught my eye:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/giatex.ca\/\">Giatex<\/a> &#8220;stretching&#8221; bike, which looks pretty much like a folder until you realise the frame extends rather than folds. Surprisingly light, and remarkably cheap. I&#8217;d like to review this for a magazine at some point.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/aerolite.ca\/\">Aerolite<\/a> titanium bike frames. Very reasonably priced, and well finished. What caught my eye was a splittable tandem frame with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandsmachine.com\/\">S and S<\/a>-like couplings.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.legroupego.com\/\">Go Bike<\/a> folder. This bike is both lighter and more solid than any picture can do justice to. Richard Diver of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citybikes.ca\/\">City Bikes<\/a> was on the stand, with the most recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bromptonbicycle.co.uk\/\">Brompton<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccmcycle.com\/\">CCM<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evoxcycle.com\/\">Evox<\/a> upgrades, at least since I reviewed it for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.velovision.co.uk\/\">Velo Vision<\/a>:\n<ul>\n<li>chain guide<\/li>\n<li>braze-ons for what looks like a 20&#8243; rack<\/li>\n<li>Shimano Altus gearing, with less of a gap between the smallest sprocket and the frame.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;d say these are very useful upgrades, and it looks like the price is the same, or possibly even less. No sign of a lighter frame, though.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rotorbike.com\/\">Rotor System<\/a> crank set. Not Canadian, but another attempt to get past the perceived top-dead-centre problems of rotary cranks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I was pleasantly surprised by the skill and grace of the flatland freestyle BMX riders. I spent most of the time being amazed at quite how they managed to keep balance on bits of bikes that aren&#8217;t usually balanced upon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was at the Toronto International Bicycle Show yesterday at the Ricoh Coliseum. There was the usual tedious display of thousands of yet-more-suspended mountain bikes (zz!), but a few (mostly Canadian) things caught my eye: Giatex &#8220;stretching&#8221; bike, which looks pretty much like a folder until you realise the frame extends rather than folds. Surprisingly light, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[77,43],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-stuff","category-general","tag-bike","tag-toronto"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-2H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}