Maurice shares a quick thought about some grips that happened to appear on one of his bikes.

In this second installment, I’ll pick up where I left off and walk you through more of the cool new products that I learned about at PressCamp 2010.

Aside from learning about their new bikes, riding killer trails, and beautiful accommodations, it was great to get together with Norco pro riders and the people behind the scenes at Norco who make it all happen.

Scott Gibson has been making hydration and other packs of all sorts for many years. He’s now branching out to renewable energy platforms for shelters.

Trek recently hosted their 2011 mountain bike product launch in beautiful Chatel, France. A gaggle of print and web journalists, along with yours truly, had the opportunity to ride refined and revised versions of Trek’s Fuel Ex, Remedy, as well as Coil and Air versions of the Scratch.

What do you get when you combine marketing types from 27 bike-related companies with journos representing 39 titles at the luxurious Deer Valley resort in Park City, UT? You get the bicycle industry schmooze-fest know as PressCamp 2010.