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Updated: We’re heading to the Berlin Bike Show. Here's why you should too…

Here's what we're looking forward to seeing at this weekend's Berliner Fahrradschau...

Berlin Bicycle Week starts on Monday (27 February 2017) and we’ll be heading out to the Berlin Bike Show (Berliner Fahrradschau, if you want to talk like a native) on Friday (3 March 2017) to bring you pictures and news from the most interesting brands exhibiting. If you’re based in Germany you should definitely get along there, and if you’re based in the UK travel is easier and cheaper than you might think (details under Getting to Berlin below).

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We went to the Berlin Bike Show last year and it was fascinating. Organisers boast that it’s the world’s largest bicycle lifestyle show.

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The Berlin Bike Show, now in its eighth year, features big brands like Campagnolo, Canyon, Shimano, Cinelli, Rose, Assos and loads more, plus many less mainstream brands and custom bike builders.

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The show is divided up into different sectors based on different aspects of cycling. Urban Lifestyle, for example, features city bikes and accessories, the Handmade area is focused on custom bike builders, and the Velo Couture area is dedicated to bike fashion. 

Another area, called Ambition, covers performance cycling, and there’s a substantially expanded E-Mobility section with an Electro-Bike Test Track.

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London-based Vulpine will be at the Berlin Bike Show with its range of cycling clothing for men and women. You know all about Vulpine, right? We cover the brand often here on road.cc. Its Long Sleeve Merino Alpine Jersey, for example, recently did very well in our review.

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Vulpine will launch its new spring/summer 2017 range in Berlin and will also reveal two exclusive bikes for the first time. These have been handbuilt by August Bicycles for Vulpine founders Nick Hussey and his wife Emmalou to celebrate the brand's fifth birthday.

Vulpine SS17 Seville photoshoot

Vulpine says it will have Copper Dog Scotch whisky on hand too, so you can swing by for a glass if you make it out to the Berlin show.

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Berlin Bike Show also features plenty of action including the Berlin Trials Cup and trial workshops, a cyclocross race, a mountain bike race, trick bike shows, BMX flatland shows…

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That’s all happening at the Berlin Bike Show but there’s plenty more planned for Berlin Bicycle Week: rides, races, workshops, shows, exhibitions, films, and talks. Highlights include the Rad Race Last Man Standing races for fixies, a Berlin Tweed Day ride for retro bikes and a gravel bike ride called King of Gravus.

The full programme of events is listed here.

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Where and when?

The Berlin Bike Show takes place:

Friday 3 March 6pm-11pm

Saturday 4 March 10am-7pm

Sunday 5 March 10am-6pm

 

It is held at:

Station Berlin 

Luckenwalder Str. 4-6

10963 Berlin

 

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Getting to Berlin

We just did a quick check on www.skyscanner.net and you can currently fly with EasyJet from Luton to Berlin Schoenefeld, going out at lunchtime on Friday and returning on Sunday evening, for £118. You can get similar deals on budget airlines like RyanAir and EasyJet from other UK airports. It’ll cost you less that £100 with RyanAIr from Glasgow International, for example.

For more info go to http://berlinerfahrradschau.de/de/

Mat has been in cycling media since 1996, on titles including BikeRadar, Total Bike, Total Mountain Bike, What Mountain Bike and Mountain Biking UK, and he has been editor of 220 Triathlon and Cycling Plus. Mat has been road.cc technical editor for over a decade, testing bikes, fettling the latest kit, and trying out the most up-to-the-minute clothing. He has won his category in Ironman UK 70.3 and finished on the podium in both marathons he has run. Mat is a Cambridge graduate who did a post-grad in magazine journalism, and he is a winner of the Cycling Media Award for Specialist Online Writer. Now over 50, he's riding road and gravel bikes most days for fun and fitness rather than training for competitions.

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hsiaolc | 7 years ago
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Been to London Bike Show once. 

Never been again. 

It was boring, didn't have enough brands and just wasn't that much fun. 

I expect to have a lot of deals and and a lot o shopping but nothing at all. 

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HowardR | 7 years ago
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Ones staff should never let ones glass run dry!

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Robcdlewis | 7 years ago
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Would sort of agree with Mamilman. The london bikeshow had little to offer. There was a bit of show for a few big brands, but how many people will buy a 5k+ bike at a show. No Rapha, no Castelli, Lake, Bont, Garmin, Shimano stands to name but a few. Yes its a bike show and its nice to look at a few bikes but you would think that a bikeshow at Excel in London would have been teaming with every distributer and every major brand would have been there for everyone to look try on and buy.

Went there with the aim of finding some new shoes, no such luck. 

Clearly the collective view was that it is not a show worth going to. Seen bigger and better stands with more on offer up the top of a mountain at major european sportives.

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HowardR | 7 years ago
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AsLongAsICycle: "We're not lying around on gilt edged chaisse longues wondering if we can be arsed" - Please don't shatter my illusions. Next you'll be telling me you don't wear tasseled smoking caps.

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aslongasicycle replied to HowardR | 7 years ago
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HowardR wrote:

AsLongAsICycle: "We're not lying around on gilt edged chaisse longues wondering if we can be arsed" - Please don't shatter my illusions. Next you'll be telling me you don't wear tasseled smoking caps.

 

You are absolutely right darling. This is an accurate depiction.

Though clearly one would never allow one's glass to run dry.

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MamilMan | 7 years ago
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So basically all the brands that will be there are the one's that couldn't be bothered turning up to the London show... and that includes some British brands for some reason.

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aslongasicycle replied to MamilMan | 7 years ago
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MamilMan wrote:

So basically all the brands that will be there are the one's that couldn't be bothered turning up to the London show... and that includes some British brands for some reason.

We'll be there too!

The concept of 'can't be bothered' is an anethema to a business. We're not lying around on gilt edged chaisse longues wondering if we can be arsed. We're assessing each opportunity for its value. They're hugely expensive. They're taking team members away from the office for a week, leaving them rather fried. The stand needs designing, building & breaking down. It's a strain on any business. But it may be worthwhile.

We're going to Berlin because I've always wanted to go but finally forced us to make time. It's very urban focussed, which is great for us. It's cool but friendly, which is also great. Everyone says good things. The organisers are nice. Berlin is very cycling focussed. They don't expect you to create amazing stands, they're quite chilled and simple.  And we can even go on rides! But mainly for us, we want to break Germany. 

Or we just can't be bothered like everyone else. 

*touchy*

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bendertherobot | 7 years ago
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Is the answer cos we're paid, we can and it will be lovely?

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Tony Farrelly replied to bendertherobot | 7 years ago
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bendertherobot wrote:

Is the answer cos we're paid, we can and it will be lovely?

No.

Although we'll be there working (3 days, 3am start, back on Saturday night/Sunday morning)  and we don't do that for free - do you? -  so we will be be getting paid.

We're going cos it's a really interesting show full of things you wouldn't see over here. There isn't really anything like it in the UK - maybe if you crossed Bespoked with Spin and the London Bike Show but in terms of size bigger than than all three of those combined. Plus there is all the Berlin Bike Week stuff going on alongside it too. Berlin IS lovely too - we don't get to see much of it cos we're working the show, but if you went you probably would.

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bendertherobot replied to Tony Farrelly | 7 years ago
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Tony Farrelly wrote:

bendertherobot wrote:

Is the answer cos we're paid, we can and it will be lovely?

No.

Although we'll be there working (3 days, 3am start, back on Saturday night/Sunday morning)  and we don't do that for free - do you? -  so we will be be getting paid.

We're going cos it's a really interesting show full of things you wouldn't see over here. There isn't really anything like it in the UK - maybe if you crossed Bespoked with Spin and the London Bike Show but in terms of size bigger than than all three of those combined. Plus there is all the Berlin Bike Week stuff going on alongside it too. Berlin IS lovely too - we don't get to see much of it cos we're working the show, but if you went you probably would.

Yet you changed the headline?  3

Yes, this is a bike website, it's your job. That's why you cover things. That's not a criticism, it's a fact. So the original headline why are we going is because, well, bike show. We kind of expect you to. Because it's a good bike show and because it's lovely. None of this is critical, just a response to the original, now changed headline. So, it seems, you can go, you get paid, and it's lovely.  The original response was a humouros response to that headline, we'd all love to go, I am sure.

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JonD replied to Tony Farrelly | 7 years ago
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Tony Farrelly wrote:

 

We're going cos it's a really interesting show full of things you wouldn't see over here. There isn't really anything like it in the UK - maybe if you crossed Bespoked with Spin and the London Bike Show but in terms of size bigger than than all three of those combined. Plus there is all the Berlin Bike Week stuff going on alongside it too. Berlin IS lovely too - we don't get to see much of it cos we're working the show, but if you went you probably would.

 

Bit of a longshot, but fancy keeping an eye out for anything recumbent-shaped ? TBH Spezi's more the show for that kinda thing but yer never know, but 'bents get buggerall coverage in the normal upwrong press (tho' funny enough I first saw recumbents in a copy of CyclingPlus about 15 or 20 yrs ago..).

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Mat Brett replied to JonD | 7 years ago
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JonD wrote:

Tony Farrelly wrote:

 

We're going cos it's a really interesting show full of things you wouldn't see over here. There isn't really anything like it in the UK - maybe if you crossed Bespoked with Spin and the London Bike Show but in terms of size bigger than than all three of those combined. Plus there is all the Berlin Bike Week stuff going on alongside it too. Berlin IS lovely too - we don't get to see much of it cos we're working the show, but if you went you probably would.

 

 

Bit of a longshot, but fancy keeping an eye out for anything recumbent-shaped ? TBH Spezi's more the show for that kinda thing but yer never know, but 'bents get buggerall coverage in the normal upwrong press (tho' funny enough I first saw recumbents in a copy of CyclingPlus about 15 or 20 yrs ago..).

 

Okay, will do.

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