Gallery: the weird and wonderful of Interbike 2017

Las Vegas goes out not with a bang, nor with a whimper, but with weirdness

Here's a look at the weird and wonderful things we saw at Interbike 2017

Josh Patterson / Immediate Media

Josh Patterson

Published: September 26, 2017 at 2:00 pm

The sun has set on Interbike in Las Vegas. This year marked the final time North America's largest bicycle industry tradeshow met in Sin City, and the show moves north to the Nevada city of Reno for 2018 and beyond.

Rather than going out with a bang or with a whimper, the Las Vegas expo ended... on a weird note.

The vacuum formed by the exodus of large bike brands, which fled the show in recent years to hold their own product launches, was filled by small companies peddling products that were quirky and sometimes questionable.

Examples include a transformer handlebar, a handlebar with awkward-looking inward bends, a hacked together 13-speed cassette, a Fumpa and very orange and expensive inner tubes. And that's just the tip of the proverbial iceberg.

Click through the gallery above for a glimpse at some of the most head-turning — and head-scratching — new products from this year's show.

Contributor

Josh Patterson is a BikeRadar contributor and former technical editor. He has spent most of his career working in the cycling industry as an athlete, mechanic and journalist. He holds a master's degree in journalism and has more than 20 years of experience as a cyclist and 12 years of experience riding and writing for BikeRadar, Cyclingnews, Cycling Weekly, Dirt Rag, RoadBikeReview and Outside Magazine. A native of the Flint Hills of Kansas, Josh was a pioneer in the gravel cycling movement, having raced the first Unbound 200 and many other gravel events around the globe. He considers himself a cycling generalist and enjoys road, gravel and mountain biking in equal measure. When not traveling for work, he can be found exploring the singletrack and lonely gravel roads that surround his home in Fort Collins, Colorado. In addition to his love of cycling, Josh is an enthusiastic supporter of brunch, voting rights and the right to repair movement.