It’s that time of the year again when Eurobike (the biggest bike tradeshow in the world) is over and we get to take a closer look at the bike touring, bikepacking and adventure gear and innovation from the show.
Bikepacking bags have continued to become more prevalent at the show this year, as have off-road adventure bikes and Pinion gearbox touring bikes. There’s a carbon fibre touring bike here in the mix, and you should take a closer look at the new Surly alt handlebars.
Here’s the CyclingAbout roundup gallery of all the touring, trekking, adventure and bikepacking gear from the show. I will update this resource as more photos become available. 🙂
A special thanks to Franz from Velologie for running around and taking all of these great photos.
AcePac
Acepac had a great stand setup to show off their bikepacking gear! Image: Franz HerkendellThe Acepac stand was one of the show highlights. Image: Franz Herkendell
Apidura
Apidura brought all of their bikepacking kit to Eurobike. Image: Franz HerkendellThe Apidura bikepacking bags have a great reputation for quality. Many of their new bags are waterproof too. Image: Franz HerkendellThis is a new front bag by Apidura. Image: Franz Herkendell
Blackburn
Blackburn brought all of their racks and bags to Eurobike. Image: Franz HerkendellThe Blackburn bikepacking bags are a popular sell and are now available in camo. Image: Franz Herkendell
My Boo
My Boo make bamboo touring rigs out of this natural product. Image: Franz Herkendell
Breezer
The 2017 Breezer Radar Pro is a new adventure touring model from the same parent company that owns Fuji. Image: Franz Herkendell
Bruno
This Bruno Minivelo was found with a full set of panniers. Image: Franz Herkendell
Busch & Muller
Busch & Muller were showing a new 150lux rechargable light (not dynamo) called the IXON Space that can also charge USB goods. Image: Franz Herkendell
Co-Motion
Co-Motion had their Pinion Divide touring bike at the show. I’ve written about how much I like this bike HERE. Image: Franz HerkendellThey also brought along their popular Americano touring bike too. Image: Franz Herkendell
Fuji
Fuji brought their great-value touring bike along. I reckon it’s a killer bike for the price! Read more HERE. Image: Franz Herkendell
Gates Carbon Drive
Gates had their new Carbon Drive system on display: the CDX:EXP. Read more about it HERE. Image: Franz HerkendellThere’s lots of different Gates sprockets available now. Image: Franz Herkendell
Giant
The 2017 Giant Toughroad is a great value offroad touring bike. You can read more about it HERE. Image: Franz HerkendellThe Giant Anyroad bike is designed for light touring, commuting and road riding. Image: Franz HerkendellThe Giant Anyroad is available in two colours. Image: Franz Herkendell
Gilles Berthoud
Gilles Berthoud had their usual leather goods on display. Image: Franz HerkendellThe Gilles Berthoud bag ranges is pretty extensive. Image: Franz HerkendellGilles Berthoud make all kinds of accessories for touring bikes too. Image: Franz HerkendellGilles Berthoud had a nice touring bike on display with all of their gear. Image: Franz HerkendellI really like the Gilles Berthoud chainstay protector. Image: Franz Herkendell
Hartje
Hartje make some great touring bikes for the European market. Image: Franz Herkendell
HiLite
The titanium touring bikes by HiLite are stunning! This one features a Pinion 18 speed gearbox. Image: Franz Herkendell
Intec
This Intec touring bike has been fitted up with panniers and a front basket. Image: Franz Herkendell
Koga
Koga have one of the nicest touring bike ranges in the world. Image: Franz HerkendellThis Koga touring bike is ready for world travel with its Rohloff hub and Gates Carbon Drive. Image: Franz HerkendellKoga make a bike for every kind of rider and every kind of budget. Image: Franz Herkendell
Marin
The new 2017 Marin Four Corners touring bike looks awesome! You can read more about it HERE. Image: Franz HerkendellMarin also brought their 27+ Pine adventure touring bike to the show. Image: Franz Herkendell
Maxx
The Maxx Crossmaxx 650B touring bike is new for 2017. Image: Franz Herkendell
Moulton
Moulton had their famous bikes loaded up with panniers for touring. Image: Franz Herkendell
MTB Cycletech
The MTB Cycletech touring and adventure range is quite extensive. Image: Franz HerkendellThis Pinion gearbox MTB Cycletech bike is designed for long-distance world travel. Image: Franz HerkendellMTB Cycletech also had a 26+ offroad Pinion bikepacking bike on display. Image: Franz Herkendell
Ortlieb
Ortlieb were proudly showing off their 2017 bikepacking bags. Image: Franz HerkendellYou can use a smartphone through the top of the handlebar bag. Image: Franz Herkendell
Patria
Patria had some lovely steel bikes at Eurobike. Image: Franz Herkendell
Pedal Power
Pedal Power had a nice touring tandem on display. Image: Franz Herkendell
Pinion
Pinion just released their new lightweight C-Line gearbox. For more info, head HERE. Image: Franz HerkendellThe Pinion shifter can fit on road handlebar if it is splits in two. Image: Franz Herkendell
Restrap
Restrap had their bikepacking bags on display at their stand. Image: Franz Herkendell
Ritchey
The Ritchey Ascent is designed with both touring and bikepacking in mind. Image: Franz HerkendellRitchey have also expanded their handlebar range to include flared bars. Image: Franz Herkendell
Rohloff
Rohloff were showing some new hubs for different axle sizes this year. Head HERE for all the goss. Image: Franz HerkendellThe new Rohloff sprocket carrier is a great innovation. Image: Franz Herkendell
Rose
Rose had a really nice Pinion trekking bike at Eurobike this year. Image: Franz HerkendellRose use aluminium as the material of choice, popular amongst all German manufacturers. Image: Franz HerkendellMany of the European manufacturers include a dynamo hub as standard on a touring build. Image: Franz Herkendell
Rotor Bikes
Rotor Bikes (Germany) put together some really configurable steel and aluminium touring bikes. Image: Franz Herkendell
Salsa
The Salsa stand had lots of nice colourful bikes! Image: Franz HerkendellThe Salsa Fargo has received an update for 2017. You can read about it HERE. Image: Franz HerkendellThe Salsa handlebars offer lots of flare. Image: Franz HerkendellThe 2017 Salsa Cutthroat is a carbon bikepacking bike. Image: Franz HerkendellThe Salsa Vaya has also received an update for 2017. Read about it HERE. Image: Franz Herkendell
Schauff
The Schauff Sumo touring bikes are built as sturdy as ever. Image: Franz Herkendell
Schmidt
Schmidt were showing the internals of their famous dynamo hubs. Image: Franz Herkendell
Simplon
The Simplon Kagu is one of the brand’s best touring bikes. Image: Franz HerkendellThe 2017 Simplon Kagu is ready to go, off the shelf! Image: Franz HerkendellSimplon also had some of their other touring bikes on display. Image: Franz Herkendell
Soma
Soma brought many of their retro styled steel frames to Eurobike. Image: Franz HerkendellSoma have a very extensive rack and handlebar range too. Image: Franz Herkendell
SP Dynamo
The SP dynamo hubs are a popular lower-cost alternative to Schmidt.
Supernova
Supernova ran a line of their waterproof E3 Pro dynamo lights. Image: Franz Herkendell
Surly
The 2017 Surly Troll has been redesigned for the first time in a while. You can read more about the bike HERE. Image: Franz HerkendellThe Surly Straggler is an awesome colour! It uses STI shifters now too. Image: Franz HerkendellThe Surly stand was stacked with awesome steel bikes. Image: Franz HerkendellSurly manage to fill lots of niche categories with their bike range. Image: Franz HerkendellThe Surly offroad touring bikes are pretty popular for adventure touring. Image: Franz HerkendellSurly also had some new handlebars and bikepacking bags at the show, along with their extensive rack range. Image: Franz Herkendell
Tern
The Tern Joe 24 is a larger sized folding bike that is a pretty handy light touring bike too. Image: Franz Herkendell
Topeak
New for 2017 are the Topeak bikepacking bags. Image: Franz HerkendellThis new bike phone holder by Topeak looks great. Image: Franz HerkendellIt slides straight onto the stem for navigating. Image: Franz Herkendell
Tout Terrain
Tout Terrain had their awesome touring and adventure bikes on display! Image: Franz Herkendell
Vaude
Vaude had their usual range of waterproof panniers in all kinds of colours. Image: Franz HerkendellA closer look at some of the green Vaude panniers. Image: Franz HerkendellYou can lock the Vaude panniers onto your racks! Image: Franz HerkendellVaude make a whole bunch of accessory bags too. Image: Franz HerkendellThese Vaude shoes could be great for bicycle touring. Image: Franz Herkendell
Velo de Ville
Velo de Ville had their premium trekking bike at the show. It uses the Pinion 18 speed gearbox and Gates Carbon Drive. Image: Franz HerkendellAnother Velo de Ville touring bike with all the bells and whistles. Image: Franz Herkendell
Velotraum
Velotraum had their standard offering of premium touring bikes at the show. Image: Franz HerkendellThis Velotraum touring bike is designed for the path less travelled. Image: Franz Herkendell
VSF Fahrradmanufaktur
VSF had their standard great value range of touring bikes at their stand. Image: Franz HerkendellThis VSF TX400 step-through touring bike is one of only a handful of this style in the world. Image: Franz Herkendell
Wiawas
This is the Wiawis Donar carbon touring bike. This Korean brand is one of only a few making carbon touring bikes! Image: Franz Herkendell
Yasujiro
Yasujiro had this nice celeste touring bike at the show. As far as I know, Yasujiro is a Japanese brand which is owned by Tange (frame tubing manufacturer). Image: Franz Herkendell
You Can Check Out Eurobike Coverage From Previous Years HERE.
9 responses to “Eurobike 2016 Coverage: Bicycle Touring, Bikepacking and Adventure Gallery”
paul evans
So many nice bikes, pinion looks like it is taking off. Just setup a Rohllof bike, would have liked a pinion one.Surprised at how many German makers there were, them and the Dutch make great Aluminium frames.
Cass Gilbert
Great roundup Alee!
FunThomas
Hi, I am missing Ghost AMR bags there.
Gerard
Me too!! Also on last year’s review and bikepacking brands list 🙁
Don’t forget that Eurobike takes place in Friedrichshafen, in the south of Germany.
Also, you probably read touring blogs and websites in English, so their users normally have American or British bikes, leading to think that everybody around the world cycles on a Surly or a Thorn Nomad. However, Germany has a long tradition on touring and some of the top brands for touring (Rohloff, Ortlieb, Tubus, B&M, Son, etc.) are German. Actually, in countries like Cuba, when the people saw us coming by bike, they assumed by default we were Germans, and often the other cyclists we meet on the road are also Germans.
I live in Germany and it’s quite normal to have plenty of touring bikes in any normal bike shop to choose from, and many brands still doing steel frames. On my train to work there are daily a couple of Rohloff bikes and many other beauties.
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9 responses to “Eurobike 2016 Coverage: Bicycle Touring, Bikepacking and Adventure Gallery”
So many nice bikes, pinion looks like it is taking off. Just setup a Rohllof bike, would have liked a pinion one.Surprised at how many German makers there were, them and the Dutch make great Aluminium frames.
Great roundup Alee!
Hi, I am missing Ghost AMR bags there.
Me too!! Also on last year’s review and bikepacking brands list 🙁
Were you there? We should have had a coffee!
Don’t forget that Eurobike takes place in Friedrichshafen, in the south of Germany.
Also, you probably read touring blogs and websites in English, so their users normally have American or British bikes, leading to think that everybody around the world cycles on a Surly or a Thorn Nomad. However, Germany has a long tradition on touring and some of the top brands for touring (Rohloff, Ortlieb, Tubus, B&M, Son, etc.) are German. Actually, in countries like Cuba, when the people saw us coming by bike, they assumed by default we were Germans, and often the other cyclists we meet on the road are also Germans.
I live in Germany and it’s quite normal to have plenty of touring bikes in any normal bike shop to choose from, and many brands still doing steel frames. On my train to work there are daily a couple of Rohloff bikes and many other beauties.
No Van Nicholas?
Sorry, I had photos, forgot to include them!
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There are two big bike-touring magazines in German. Are there any in English? I mean specialized in touring bikes only…