[BikePortland managing editor Elly Blue is back from Interbike, but she's still going through mountains of notes and photos. Below is a report about some of the smaller fry she came across on the show floor -- quirky inventions and scrappy startups. See the rest of our Interbike coverage here.]

The "SEE ME" light-up belt. [...]

[BikePortland managing editor Elly Blue is back from Interbike, but she's still going through mountains of notes and photos. Below is a report of city/cargo/utility bikes she came across on the show floor. See the rest of our Interbike coverage here.]

Raleigh's new commuter bike.(Photos © Elly Blue)

For an Interbike rookie, the main floor of [...]

Outlier's classy new wool caps(Photos © Elly Blue)

At Interbike, a lot of the best stuff never makes it to the main floor. One of the highlights of the week for me was heading up to an 11th floor hotel suite for a trunk show with a few small, independent companies.
There I met Matt and [...]

A cyclocross race, Las Vegas, and Interbike make for quite a combination.(Photos: Caroline Paquette for BikePortland.org)

BikePortland's reporter on the scene at Interbike, Elly Blue, couldn't make it out to Cross Vegas -- billed as the "Biggest Cyclocross Race in America" and held on the first night of the Interbike trade show -- but we still [...]

A sampling of some of the most colorful things I saw on the show floor. Check out the rest of our Interbike photos here.

Beautiful fixies (Photos © Elly Blue)

Stylish clothes demand stylish bikes. This woman's new Raleigh rig complemented her outfit nicely.(Photos © Elly Blue)

For the second year in a row, Momentum Magazine produced their Urban Legend Fashion Show at Interbike.

The Advocacy Zone, a welcome sight for this Interbike newbie.(Photos © Elly Blue)

It's my second day at Interbike (see Day 1 report here) and the main event is open -- a giant exhibition hall packed with many hundreds of booths and the many thousands of bike industry insiders who have come to gawk, shop, and [...]

Yes folks, this is the scene just steps from the entrance to America's premiere bicycle trade show.(Photos © Elly Blue)

I just finished my first day at North America's biggest bicycle trade show. Interbike has something like a thousand exhibitors and 20,000 attendees from all over the world. Below are photos and thoughts from [...]

A crowd only a true bike geek could love.(Photos: Interbike)

As I write this, our intrepid managing editor Elly Blue is en route to Las Vegas for one of the world's largest bike industry gatherings -- the Interbike trade show.
I have fond memories of working and walking the Interbike show floor, having gone several times as [...]