The Interbike Trade Show held at the Sands Convention Center in Las Vegas, NV, is largest bicycle trade event in North America with over 2,000 exhibitors. It''s three days packed with exhibits, product launches, and meetings. Chicago Athlete and our parent company which produces The Chicago Bike Show, were onhand. We ran into several Chicago area bike dealers, retailers and bike fans.

Brent Lane (Plank Road Cyclery - Frankfort, IL) took a break to check out his store sales and send photos of his morning bike ride along Red Rock Canyon to friends back home.

Ken Wharfield (Bikes & Fitness - Washington, MI) chats with Chicago-based rep Dan Schroeder at the Specialized booth.

Al "Big Al" Robertson, Tracy Collings (Chicago Bike Show/Chicago Athlete), Vince Boyer (Village CycleSport-Elk Grove Village) and Joe Eberhardt (Village CycleSport-Elk Grove Village) get some java in their system to jumpstart their Friday morning.

Heather Travis (Apparel Product Manager/Cervelo Cycles) and Val Gervais (Mission Bay-Chicago/Elgin) check out the latest line of new apparel.

Eric Schutt (SRAM) with Chris Mosk (2CC Pony Shop Cycling Team) and Neil Sauter who were checking out the latest hot products.

A Chicago-based company, Do Wrap Performance Headwear, had a booth at the show.

Top local triathlete (left) Christian Waterstraat (Lisle, IL) convinced Tim Regan (Minneapolis, MN) to come to Las Vegas for Interbike as long as he was back in time for the Twin Cities Marathon . Waterstraat was looking at new products and was impressed with the Cervelo P2 Carbon frame.