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Please fwd this email to the powers to be… Blue Seventy, Zoot, LG, TYR, ORCA, De Soto, 2xU
What do you guys think if we asked the Interbike Organizers to make a Triathlon Pavilion?
Cheers
Hello
Please fwd this email to the powers to be… Blue Seventy, Zoot, LG, TYR, ORCA, De Soto, 2xU
What do you guys think if we asked the Interbike Organizers to make a Triathlon Pavilion?
Cheers
Then wouldn’t be a totally new expo? not interbike but a triathlon expo??? let’s face it people like to see exciting new products but still majority of the force is driven by bikes not gimmicky water bottles or bags.
Hello
Please fwd this email to the powers to be… Blue Seventy, Zoot, LG, TYR, ORCA, De Soto, 2xU
What do you guys think if we asked the Interbike Organizers to make a Triathlon Pavilion?
Cheers
Then wouldn’t be a totally new expo? not interbike but a triathlon expo??? let’s face it people like to see exciting new products but still majority of the force is driven by bikes not gimmicky water bottles or bags.
I am not sure why you think you know everything and why you always try to put my company or my ideas down and in the last 5 years you have never said anything positive – but that fine. Maybe because I do not spend any money on your website advertising. Lucky for me most people do not share your views.
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MS
How about do a new thing for Triathlon only. Maybe in San Diego or Boulder. I believe Triathion has enough legs to stand on it’s own.
year #2
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Check out the Multisport World Conference and Expo (http://www.multisportworld.com/) to be held March 21-22, 2009 at the state-of-the-art Zesiger Sports & Fitness Center at MIT in Cambridge, MA. Developed in partnership with the Northeast region of USA Triathlon, the event offers seminars, clinics, workshops, competitive events and the largest vendor expo of any multisport event on the east coast. Exhibiting sponsors include some of the most recognizable brands in the sport (e.g. Zipp, Fuel Belt, Spinervals, Polar, Total Immersion), plus retailers of bikes, running shoes, training equipment and more. Also exhibiting will be certified coaches, race directors and local tri clubs.
Headlining the list of speakers at this year’s event is 2x Ironman World Champion Scott Tinley, world renowned swim coach and founder of Total Immersion, Terry Laughlin, and ChiRunning founder, Danny Dreyer.
Multisport World will also include a multisport olympics for kids and multiple shows by stunt bike rider and 5x nationals champion, Mike Steidley.
Attendance to the seminars and expo is free and the first 2,000 registered attendees receive a goodie bag with a Spinervals DVD, product samples, etc.
I hear what you are saying Martin, but to my mind one of the best things about interbike is the gathering of the tribe related to bicycles. You have fillet brazed steel next to carbon fiber, commuter bikes next to downhill bikes. If we had a seperate triathlon pavilion then would there then be a touring pavilion, a mountain bike pavilion etc. I know BMX has their own area, but its a youth oriented market so that makes more sense.
Kevin
I just one triathlon to have more visibility at Interbike instead of being scattered all over the place. There are many pavilions at Iterbike New Product, Italian etc…
Hi,
It seems that many of the Tri companies are usually off in the corner of the pavillion. It seemed like 2XU, Nineteen and B70 wer very close to each other…coincidence perhaps.
I read the Austin article on the soon to be released rocket suit…You and the boys from B70 better make a good case at the FINA meeting, because it is beginning to sound like the tide is turning toward Jammers and tank suits going forward. And I think that would be a shame.
Best of luck
Thanks for the note. We have put together PP presentation outlining the developments in sports and technology to be presented at the FINA meeting, and I think we have very good case and solid recommendations. As long as we have guidelines that are followed and we keep the Specific Gravity of the swim suits at 1 or higher I think the suits will not be banned. After all who would want to see golfers play with wooden golf clubs 
What the new swims suits and Phelps did for swimming this year is what Carbon fiber and Lance did for cycling 4 years ago. Even my 12 year old and 5 year old now want to watch swimming on TV.
We will keep you posted after we return from Lausanne Switzerland.
Marcin - it would be fantastic if you could give us a behind the scenes look at the meetings in Lausanne, Switzerland! I am very interested in how this plays out!
There are many companies that have a strong following in both cycling and triathlon. If you asked those companies to move to a separate wing, they loose out because cyclist with no triathlon interests may not make the walk. Its also unrealistic to expect those companies to pay for two booths and hire double the staff.
I’m fine with letting Interbike be about bikes, ie cycling. More time and money should go into triathlon expos.
That’s what TRIFEST is for! www.trifest.com
i think this is a worthy idea, and i approached interbike with it a couple of years ago. they were adamantly against it. not only that, they were singularly disinterested in anything tri-specific. i offered to help arrange speakers for breakout sessions, they said no, the nbda would handle all of that for them.
the management to whom i spoke is no longer at interbike, maybe there a fresh approach would yield a more receptive response.
that said, i think it would be hard for to get a lot of manufacturers to buy into a pavilion, because many have good spaces and they won’t want to move. also, a lot of them are not going to want to be pigeonholed into triathlon. i can think of several companies – giant, profile design, fsa, and others – whose ownership is primarily or entirely asian, but they wouldn’t want to be in a chinese or taiwanese pavilion. i don’t think cervelo or felt would want to be in a triathlon pavilion. maybe some of the smaller booths would.
It seems that many of the Tri companies are usually off in the corner of the pavillion. It seemed like 2XU, Nineteen and B70 wer very close to each other…coincidence perhaps.
Tom,
Good point . . and thanks for mentioning Nineteen. Most appreciated!
This is something that has been talked about informally a number of times and never seems to move forward past that stage. I think that it sounds good in theory, but in practice would not be feasible or what some of the key players would want. Many of the tri companies are diversifying into other markets - they do not solely manufacture goods for the tri market.
As you pointed out, the back left corner of the hall in the Sands Convention Center has become a loose and informal triathlon zone for the last two years at Interbike with a number of key direct and indirect tri manufacturers and suppliers all in the same area. Within a one minute walk of the Nineteen booth their were companies such as Cervelo, Felt, Blue-Seventy, 2XU, QR, Orbea/Orca, and even Rocket Science!! Works for us. We were overbooked with meetings for three days straight!
If it’s a consumer show you want, then as Mark V. pointed out, TriFest is shaping up as the venue for that. Last year in it’s first year it was a huge success. I am guessing that this year will be bigger and better. The group ride on the Friday ( Mar 6) morning up Mt Lemmon is looking to be the ride of the year! Epic. Don’t miss it.
And if not TriFest, consider Multisport World (www.MultisportWorld.com)… more than 2,000 attend this consumer event, the speakers are top-notch, there are competitive and networking events and its gear galore. It doesn’t offer the outdoor training opportunities of Trifest (in AZ), but if you’re on the east coast (Multisport World is in Cambridge, MA) you can’t go wrong.
Hello
Please fwd this email to the powers to be… Blue Seventy, Zoot, LG, TYR, ORCA, De Soto, 2xU
What do you guys think if we asked the Interbike Organizers to make a Triathlon Pavilion?
Cheers
Then wouldn’t be a totally new expo? not interbike but a triathlon expo??? let’s face it people like to see exciting new products but still majority of the force is driven by bikes not gimmicky water bottles or bags.
FWIW, I *like *Rocket Science’s gimmicky bags. Besides, CES features pavilions for automotive & marine electronics…why not do similar for our sport?
There’s also a new event in the Midwest - Great Lakes Multisport & Running Expo held in Milwaukee on January 31 - February 1. There are great keynote speakers and exhibitors as well as tech sessions, 5K run, CompuTrainer rides, run on the new Woodway Alter-G… and there are LOTS of giveaways…
And, the proceeds benefit Racers Against Childhood Cancer, a non-profit working to raise research funds to end childhood cancer.
Full Disclosure - I’m on the RACC Development Team so there is some bias here. But this really should be a great event… really!
All of the Expo’s that are mentioned are held in the spring of the year. This is fine but they are all geared towards a consumer event. Interbike is a industry event.
There is a reason that Interbike is held in late September, it takes time to produce all the product overseas.
There would be nothing wrong with a Triathlon section, if it attracted more attendence, great. There has been some talk of a consumer day at Interbike on the last day. I would also support this.
Our company has participated at Interbike for the past 7 years. Attendance is slipping.
Dan Rusch
Hidden Bay Sports
www.hiddenbaysports.com