Just back from a couple of hours at the trade day. I didn't look at the bling, as I can't afford it but here' s some more offbeat stuff (apologies some of this isn't news but I don't get out much)
Hope have got a CNC machine on their stand and are making souvenir hubs before your very eyes
Charge's stand is perhap even wackier then last year - when they had a full-scale model of my kitchen
Pashley have a reworked Guvnor - a bike I fell in love with last year - with gold plated lugs and a tiny chainwheel
Don't miss the Boma - an 4x4 wheelchair! There is also a quadricycle (the SupportFeetz) that folds into a wheeled zimmer frame!
There are some bike caravans - little tents that fold out of trailers!!
Like last year the CTC stand is large, empty and apparently aimless - perhaps this will pick up on public days
It wasn't brilliant for freebies, perhaps as we were all there to do business (Yeah, right) but there plenty of jelly beans in normal and energy formulations and cake bar samples. The Cape Argus cycle tour stand has some nice metal bicycle-shaped keyrings made of bent wire.
Bike parking is indoor and protected like last year so you don't need a lock.
Dropped onto the Bishop Simeon stand and got into a discussion about how hard Charlotte is - decided I won't be doing that ride next year.
