Gore Bike Wear

Gore Bike Wear’s new Comfort Zone jacket uses a combination of heavy-duty, extra-breathable and stretchy Gore-Tex panels with the goal of achieving an ideal blend of weather resistance, cooling and comfort. Looks good, too.

Somewhat more conceptual is this jacket with inflatable insulation. Feeling a bit chilly? Blow into the pipe on the shoulder to add insulation power. The idea’s been around in winter sports gear for a while.

The latest Hope Vision HID light mounts to a separate bracket (rather than to the stem front plate) or a helmet mount. The casing is considerably more compact, too.

An extensive Moulton stand had lots of eyecatching small-wheelers. This stainless steel incarnation of the original dismantalable design was attracting a fair bit of attention.

Pinnacle

The UK’s new Pinnacle brand had a big stand, showing off its entire range. They’re all pretty tidy looking, and most come with height-adjustable stems for easy setup – here’s one of the MTB hardtails.

And a clean full susser. The Pinnacle range also includes road, utility, kids’ and cyclocross bikes.

Kelly’s Bikes (not to be confused with now-defunct US custom builder Kelly) is based in the Slovak Republic and is apparently huge in Eastern Europe. They’ll be arriving in the UK shortly.

From the same importer comes the new-to-the-UK Mem shoe range.

Amongst Schwalbe’s new crop of amusingly-named tyres is the Muddy Mary DH mud tyre.

Superfly’s 853 jump hardtail is available in vertical dropout or track end variants.

Fitness consultancy Torq has an array of new products. In the water coolers were various flavours of its energy drink (we’ve got rather a soft spot for the lemon one), plus it was offering samples of its new vaguely milkshakey recovery drink that contains all manner of useful stuff and tastes pretty good to boot.

Not strictly a bike, but there’s a lot of bike tech on the Boma off-road electric wheelchair – disc brakes, full suspension, knobbly tyres. It also has two 36V Heinzmann motors in the back wheels to get you up hills.

NC-17

NC-17 is a German component brand being imported by MTB Distribution. This XC stem is vaguely reminiscent of Ringlé or Roox offerings from days of yore, but with a very neat integrated top cap for a super-clean look.

Beefy DH/FR stems feature smoothly radiused bar clamp edges to minimise bar stress. The shim pictured allows you to fit this 1.5in stem to Cannondale’s not-quite-1.5in Headshok steerer.

Neat seatpost has dial-in angle adjustment, complete with guidelines that tell you when your seat is level with a variety of seat angles.

Just the ticket for bad-weather commuters – Niterider’s new range of commuting lights is immersion-resistant to a depth of 50m. Although if you’re regularly encountering that much water on the way to work we’d suggest that some sort of boat might be a more appropriate vehicle…