Presence, Thoughts and InterJones 2013 . . .

I returned home (quite) a few weeks ago from Interbike, the big North American bicycle industry show held in Las Vegas each year. I went without bikes or bars and just walked the isles bumping into friends and old acquaintances. It’s nice to catch up and talk with everyone. I love checking out all the bikes and seeing how things are going.

With the show held in a new location this year, the isles and booth locations were totally different than it has been for years so getting lost on the large show floor was easy and finding a booth with a number that was not in order was hard. I ended up just wandering around for the three days I was there and I think I saw all the booths and bikes.

There were many more 650b bikes, fat bikes and bigger tires and disk brakes on more road bikes this year.

Our Jones H-Bars were on display in a few places at the show. ESI grips had one of our new 710mm Loop H-Bars on display with the custom cut 8.25″ Extra Chunky grips and their new handle bar tape. Revelate Designs had a display with the new 710mm bar as well. Surly was showing three 2014 bikes that come stock with the 710mm Loop H-Bar.

We have the ESI grips in custom lengths for the Loop H-Bars in stock in both Chunky and Extra Chunky, available in our store now. 710mm Loop H-Bars are available now in black and silver (Biff and his European retailers have most of these items in stock too).

Before I left for the show I was very busy trying to finish bikes that were due. Now that I am back I’m still working on building up bikes and some other projects. Since I did not have a booth at the show this year, I thought that I could at least show you some of the bikes I have in the shop now, InterJones 2013…

Feel free to ask me any questions you might have about the bikes (although I’m not promising to answer everything). This blog post was delayed as so many of the bikes in the pictures have been running the new Bend H-bars and I wanted to get them launched before they started to appear in ‘everyday’ photos. As well as testing the Bend H-bars I’ve been trying out various tire/rim combinations and some bike-packing / luggage kit.