The radical looking KTM Revelator Lisse was shown off as a concept last year, and now it's a fully-fledged bike - Matthew Allen / Immediate Media
The Lisse sports some smooth integration - Matthew Allen / Immediate Media
Cables are routed internally through the Lisse's steerer. The height is fixed, with different stems taking care of stack adjustments - Matthew Allen / Immediate Media
The Lisse also features tidy thru-axles - Matthew Allen / Immediate Media
There's a pronounced 'shelf' where the seatstays meet the seat tube, because aero - Matthew Allen / Immediate Media
3T thinks its Strada is the future of road bikes. How do you feel about the combination of 1x, fat tyres, discs and aero? - Matthew Allen / Immediate Media
With a 28mm tyre that measures on the large side, clearances are tight - Matthew Allen / Immediate Media
The rear end doesn't offer much more room - Matthew Allen / Immediate Media
If you sneeze, your tyre and your down tube may meet - Matthew Allen / Immediate Media
The Strada presents a slippery profile to the wind - Matthew Allen / Immediate Media
See our separate first look for more on the Focus Project Y — is this the best looking e-bike ever? - Matthew Allen / Immediate Media
The Project Y looks amazing in bikepacking guise. You could be forgiven for not realising there's a 250W Fazua motor/battery unit hidden in the down tube - Matthew Allen / Immediate Media
Focus also announced its new Freestyle colour schemes, which are refreshingly bonkers for a company that produces a lot of sober all-black machines - Matthew Allen / Immediate Media
We think the Freestyle Mares 'cross machine looks pretty fabulous - Matthew Allen / Immediate Media
This Paralane is a little more restrained, but it's well executed - Matthew Allen / Immediate Media
The Fantic Gravel X is a gravel/MTB/e-bike mashup and it hurts our eyes - Matthew Allen / Immediate Media
SRAM was showing off the eTap HRD groupset on this now-superseded S-Works Tarmac - Matthew Allen / Immediate Media
The new carbon Scott Metrix is based on the Solace endurance road bike, with an updated fork and flat bars - Matthew Allen / Immediate Media
The Metrix has a mixture of 10-speed Shimano Tiagra/105 components, along with hydraulic discs and thru-axles - Matthew Allen / Immediate Media
Merida brought along this Bahrain-Merida Scultura Disc team bike, still spattered with mud purportedly from Paris-Roubaix (the Merida man couldn't tell us whose it was, helpfully) - Matthew Allen / Immediate Media
It helps to have a long stem for your cue sheet - Matthew Allen / Immediate Media
Only special people get Continental Pro Ltd tubulars - Matthew Allen / Immediate Media
Shimano brought along a pre-production Ultegra R8050 Di2 groupset, which is so new that the rubber hoods are actually Dura-Ace items as presumably the Ultegra ones weren't ready in time - Matthew Allen / Immediate Media
Prototype — do not ride! - Matthew Allen / Immediate Media
Are you used to the look of new Ultegra yet? - Matthew Allen / Immediate Media
The mechanical R8000 components were on show too - Matthew Allen / Immediate Media
The Ultegra R8050 Di2 rear derailleur is a very slick looking object - Matthew Allen / Immediate Media
The Ultegra R8050 Di2 front derailleur — these are actually dummy units with non-working internals, but you'd never know - Matthew Allen / Immediate Media
The new Ultegra flat mount hydraulic calipers are pretty tidy. The matching disc rotors look markedly different to those of Dura-Ace - Matthew Allen / Immediate Media
Expect to see a lot more of this in the coming year - Matthew Allen / Immediate Media
Shimano's demo bike was fitted with pre-production WH-RS770 tubeless disc wheelset - Matthew Allen / Immediate Media
The new BMC Teammachine was sitting pretty in both rim- and disc-brake flavours - Matthew Allen / Immediate Media
The KTM Macina Flite CX5 is a drop-bar e-bike commuter thing with somewhat divisive aesthetics - Matthew Allen / Immediate Media
Yes, that's basically a Headshok up front - Matthew Allen / Immediate Media
The BH G7 Pro is one handsome aero bike - Matthew Allen / Immediate Media
BH also brought along the Gravel X, which is a nice looking thing with a very practical spec - Matthew Allen / Immediate Media
Mudguard mounts and thru-axles? Lovely - Matthew Allen / Immediate Media
The 78g THM Tibia stem is mind-bendingly light. It honestly feels completely weightless - Matthew Allen / Immediate Media
Over-torque these at your peril - Matthew Allen / Immediate Media
There's absolutely no wasted material on the Tibia. It's literally the least stem you can get for €499 - Matthew Allen / Immediate Media
The THM Fibula brake has been updated to take wider tyres. A set weighs just 120g without pads - Matthew Allen / Immediate Media
The piece of inner tube may be optional - Matthew Allen / Immediate Media
Held in the mountains of northern Italy, the Eurobike Media Days were one of the first opportunities to lay hands on some 2018 bikes. We've picked the roadie highlights just for you, including a look at the Di2 version of Shimano's new Ultegra R8000 groupset.
There weren't as many brands at the Media Days this year, but we got to admire some choice new aero bikes from KTM and Simplon, along with 3T's genre-bending Strada.
Matthew Loveridge (formerly Allen) is BikeRadar's former senior writer, an experienced mechanic, and an expert on bike tech who appreciates practical, beautifully-engineered things. Originally a roadie, he likes bikes and kit of every type, including gravel bikes and mountain bikes, and he's tested a huge variety of all three over the years for BikeRadar, Cycling Plus, Cyclist.co.uk and others. He looks like he should be better at cycling than he actually is, and he's ok with that.
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