Cycle 2007- Earls Court LDN

Just settling back into normality after 3 days at 'Cycle' in London - a massive orgy of bikes and clobber. I spent Friday mooching round with camera and press-pass then Saturday and Sunday touting on a stand to the masses.

Was a bloody good but bloody tiring weekend and i'm now thoroughly overdosed on bike parts. Not looking forward to trying to make sense of a mountain of photos and business cards for a proper write-up!

Sadly there wasn't too much new or exciting stuff but after a bit of a dig around a few gems popped out. I'll go in to 'em in more detail in WO5 and pop some photos up on Facebook but a few highlights were.... Hope's CNC'd and Carbon 24" kids bike, pink calipers and flowery disks. SE's 24 year old race bike (NEVER ridden!). The Intense M6 and SS. Charge's top notch stand, seeing Hans 'NO WAY' Ray... Loads of stuff actually.

Two companies that really stood out were Diamondback and Riding High UK, both of which seemed genuinely interested to chat about their bikes and really happy to be at the show. Diamondback team rider Lex was zipping about all weekend with his new signature street bike and product manager Mike was keeping a VERY close eye on the Sabbath gear-box bike.

Over at Riding High the guys were showing off loads of tarty Spank product, Bergamont (including another Gear-box ride) and some rare as white dog shit Canfields. Again, they were really keen and had a couple of their team riders on hand to talk about actually riding bikes rather than just selling them.

All good stuff anyway. I'll post again when my gig of images are online. If you fancy a look at something a bit more in-depth check out Jim's repo at http://www.ftmb.net/