SPEZI 2024 – first impressions from the special bike show in Germany

It was packed. It was packed with people. It was packed with exhibitors, it was packed with interesting special bikes, recumbents, tricycles, velomobiles. It was packed with a great cycling atmosphere. The organizing guys themselves called it “The New SPEZI” in the press release, i.e. the SPEZI that was held for the second time in Lauchringen in southern Germany, instead of in Germersheim near Karlsruhe.

It was the 26th edition and I dare say that every one of the six thousand visitors who came this year enjoyed it. SPEZI was again held in an abandoned textile factory in a small town in southern Germany, near the Swiss border, called Lauchringen. There were really a lot of interesting constructions to see. From single-track recumbent bikes, through tadpole trikes with two wheels in the front or the delta trikes with one wheel in the front. Also velomobiles either three or four wheeled, with steered front wheels or even with steered rear wheel. In addition, there were various quads, either off-road or urban. In short, anything one can imagine in the world of recumbents.

Not to mention the many cargo bikes, which is a chapter in itself, because their designs are often very unusual.

And there were also a lot of news, although at first glance they were sort of hidden and we didn’t know much about them ahead of time, but they were there anyway, we found them and you’ll see them in a future long video.