Here’s what we need – someone on one of these to ride just behind us at all times.

Continental’s new mud tyres are available in 2.1, 2.3 and 2.5in flavours, with the latter also coming with a soft compound – a first for Conti.

Cotic had the first production Soda frame on its stand. It’s a double-butted titanium version of the excellent Soul hardtail, complete with extra tiny gussets on the chainstays and lots of general niceness. Frames will be £900.

The Cycloc is a wall-mounted bike holder that’ll work with any bike with a vaguely normal top tube. You can rotate it to allow for sloping tubes, and it looks excitingly gravity-defying. Available in a choice of colours.

We had a go on Dahon’s Flo dismantlable hardtail at Interbike and rather liked it. Now it’s got a 4in travel FS bike that separates into two halves for travelling too. At some point they’ll come up with a separable freeride bike, which might make Geneva airport bearable…

Endura’s winter range includes a new jacket using the rather wonderful eVent fabric. Taped seams, welded waterproof zips, plenty of neat detailing.

Endura also has these seasonally-inappropriate but still very agreeable retro-styled Merino wool jerseys.

Yes, it’s just another single-pivot FS bike, but we’re rather taken by Gary Fisher’s Fat Possum bikes. There’s lots of swoopy tubing and interesting details going on. It looks great, and it’s a while since we’ve said that about a Fisher.

See? Lovely.

Fusion is a German brand now being imported by Upgrade (of DMR/Kinesis/Oval fame). The full-sus bikes are made in Germany and feature a neat take on four-bar suspension that drives the shock from both ends so they can use shorter, stiffer rocker arms. There’s a wide range, covering all your travel needs.

Just to prove that Gary Fisher can still do ugly bikes, this jumpy hardtail puts us in mind of a shopping bike with a step-through frame.

Hope’s Vision HID headlight is about to get a SLED brother.

Kinesis’s Maxlight frames have built a reputation for light weight and great performance at reasonable prices, and the new P5 moves into freshly burly territory. You get square-headed main tubes and hydroformed stays.

Landescape is a new tandem company, with the innovative approach of just making one frame (in two sizes) an letting dealers (or end users) build it up to do what they want – it’ll take disc or rim brakes, 26in or 700c wheels and comes with adjustable front and rear stems to tune fit. The company was displaying several possible variants, from skinny-tyred, 700c, drop-bar speedster to this proper off-road incarnation.

Maverick frames and forks are now coming in to the UK via Extra.

There’s lots of road bikes at the show, but Trek’s Portland caught our eye with its MTB-style accoutrements – disc brakes, Bontrager straight-blade carbon fork… We’ve no idea what it’s for, but we like the look of it.

You’ve already had our ride impressions of Scott’s Ransom, but here’s another pic to show how crazy it looks if you overdo the flash a bit… The carbon fibre versions will start at £2,699, with a couple of aluminium-framed models below that.

The Remedy is Trek’s new 6in travel “all-mountain” type device.

Sugoi has revamped the excellent Gusto short to produce the Gustov, seen here teamed with an, er, eye-catching gnome-and-bus themed jersey.

Answers on a postcard…

This bolt-on internal transmission contains a toothed belt drive and a variable-diameter drive sprocket using a series of pivoting toothed cams. No, you’re right, we’re not explaining it very well. It’s a work in progress, don’t expect to see a properly robust ridable version for a little while.

PAF Systems make all those cool steel workshop cabinets that you see in electronics factories and motorsport garages. This is its Action Station, a wall-mounted workstation with a folding workbench, storage bins, overhead lighting and power strip. We want one.

Some more PAF stuff. It also supplies lock-together rubber flooring, for the discerning garage owner.