It can't be easy working in the Shimano & Campag transmission teams right now. Sram has done it again, just like with their 1 x 11 set-up from a couple of years ago, they seemed to have taken a leap forward with wireless transmission. Their wireless RED eTap" road gear shifting system was the big news at Eurobike 2015, a year where innovation was the rife. Now you can have classic wires, electronic wires, hydraulic shifting (from Rotor) and wireless. The application for cross country mountain biking is obvious, we create more gunky cables than your average road MAMIL ...start saving your pennies now.
In the world of XC, more of the big brands now have sub 900g 29er frames. Fork weighs are getting lower, thankfully. Carbon wheels & discs brakes on cross & road bikes are becoming the norm. Lots of burly gravel/monster cross cross bikes were also the flavour of the month. A few years ago everything was 'nano', now top of range stuff is "evo" ....
It was a pretty full-on show this year, getting around the 1500+ exhibitors. The industry is evolving & innovating well. Here are some choice pics, in no particular order ...

Stealth black is back at Cannondale

OTT chain cleaning?

Sub 900g 29er frame from Focus

rear of the Raven Max

Lots of gravel, "monster cross" tyres coming through

the Rambler from Maxxis

A big fat Cross thread from Schwable, the G-One & X-One

KMC chain bling

KTM had some cool looking bikes on show. Their new Scarp short travel full suss looks interesting. Similar to the old Cannodale 26in Scalpel (no rear pivots etc), will be stiff with a low frame weight. 90mm rear travel.

Nino's top of the range Spark. What do you think to the new colours?

gravelling

Carbon shaped steerer drops weight for DT Swiss. 1485g for this 100mm travel ODI Ltd

DT Swiss carbon steerer weight saving ...

Jolana Neff's set-up

the new "Uno" transmission from Rotor, it's hydraulic ... blimey

Nice retro cross lines from Ritchey

you can get your chainrings in many different shapes

Cube

that's one way of doing it

Big Ringing

A great way of demonstrating "wirelessness", space invaders with shifters

How to build a light full suss if you've got the Euros. The Excite form from German A starts light, but the weight adds on if you wants things like "lock out" etc

Not just round & black, an increased range from Absolute Black

Sram's Etap transmission

light Rock Shoxs

600g frame road frame

Clean bells

Absalon's steed

Gunn Rita Dahle's ride

wood

nice Ti from Litespeed

WTF

Open's new bike, burly like

top of the range Canyon, another 900g frame

Off season jerseys ...

yes please

AX lightness road frame, 590g! 5.2kg bike. 11.8k Euro.

AX Lightness 860g 29er frame

AX lightness rims

lovely ti lines from Nevo

for bike jockeys

17 tooth JWs from Ceramicspeed. More wattage apparently, but at a big dollar price. 500 USD+ Yep.

Schwalbe's new 'thermoplastic' tubes, half the weight of ultralight standard tubes (from 68g). Like the Foss ones we used to sell ... good as a lightweight emergency backup

Doh nuts.

Fat & fast

orange, v popular colour this year