With one month to go, all exhibitor spaces for the first European Handmade Bicycle Exhibition (EHBE) have been snapped up. The show will be held in Schwäbisch Gmünd, a picturesque town near Stuttgart in Southern Germany, on the 8th – 10th May.

EHBE will bring together the best of Europe’s hand built bicycle constructors. The show hopes to create a level of public interest similar to that generated by the highly successful North American Handmade Bicycle Show (NAHBS) in the USA.

Indra Sarkar, of organizers 2Souls Cycles, said :“When we first proposed the show last April, we expected a healthy response, but we did not expect the kind of response we have seen from all parts of Europe and beyond. At first, we booked a smaller hall in the expo centre, but after a few months we had to go back to the centre
management and ask them to allocate us some more floor space. By December, we had booked every spare square metre of space! There is no more room, but if it was available, we could fill it, such is
the high level of interest from would-be exhibitors.”

The UK will be represented by 18Bikes, Demon Frameworks and Enigma Titanium, with their custom ‘Lab’ series. From the USA come Independent Fabrication, Seven and MSH1 Bicycle Works. Italy is represented by the likes of De Rosa, Pegoretti, Passoni, Nevi and Daccordi. From the Netherlands come Vittorio and Le Cadre and Duell.
Germany is represented by the likes of Norwid, Langenberg and trendsetters Fixie Inc. There will be components from SRAM and Schlumpf, Swiss manufacturers of innovative gearing
systems.