Interbike brings a lot of excitement for many, which was shockingly obvious looking at the amount of people hanging out at Mandalay bay an hour before opening. It’s like waking up on Christmas morning, but for bike geeks.
Walking the isles, meeting like minded people and looking at all the bling makes me feel like a kid at the Oakley store. Only 5 big halls worth of that. So without further ado, here are some of the gems we found in random order.
Abbey bike tools bearing press.
It’s no secret that I’m not a big fan of the available bearing press tools on the market. It was only a matter of time before Abbey Bike Tools stepped up and redid it from the ground up. An integrated bearing to avoid rotational forces while pressing, a removable, magnetic lock nut (patent pending). I like what I see. A lot!
This press was in prototype stage, but I’m sure Jason Quade will redefine this tool the way he did with his previous releases. I’m hoping for a wide range of bearing drifts to fit all wheels, bottom brackets and head sets.
Two versions will be available, a shop version and a light weight edition for traveling race mechanics.
Alto Velo hubs
Alto Velo is a new company that redesigned their hubs to have a solid axle from side to side for maximum stiffness. They added high flanges on the drive side to balance out the spoke tension. This in the end leads to a low friction, high stiffness wheel build. It is the smarter-not-harder approach that really spoke to me.
They do all their machining in Florida in order to control the super tight tolerances that make these hubs great.
Bobby Sweeting is the CEO of this new start-up. Keep an eye on him and his team. Their products might be showing up in the media and your local bike shop soon.

Zoca one piece speedsuit
Zoca is a custom clothing company out of San Diego. The cool thing is that their production is all done in house. USA manufacturing with Italian fabrics. The best of both worlds!
The most impressive piece in their booth was this speed suit. I have no info about wind tunnel numbers, but it was super impressive because the entire suit is cut out of one piece of continuous fabric. There are seams all over that just seem to start and end in the middle of panels.
According to sales and marketing director Jason Schutz, this piece has been in development for over a year. He referred to it as ‘a big origami project’.
Boo Bicycles
Boo have been around for a while, but seeing the bikes in person made me realize how much eye for detail is in these frames. The carbon and bamboo sections flow so well into eachother, it is just amazing. Nice detail is how they used two bottom cups in the head set to keep a straight 1,5 head tube and space everything out correctly.

That’s it. We’re sorry for not updating this on the day we shot all the footage, but something got in the way. CROSSISHERE!!! Check in tomorrow for more shiny bits.

Keep an eye out for this team tearing up the US CX scene in the months to come.