Online magazine: 2021 cycling boom leads the way to innovations

Online magazine: 2021 cycling boom leads the way to innovations

E-bike and bicycle inventories in Europe have reached historically low levels. This creates room for innovations and a series of technological developments. The importance of niche categories is rising quickly, like e-cargobikes. It all comes together in disruptive innovations that might dominate future developments.

  • Innovative e-bike introductions in 2020
  • Battery innovations improve performance
  • Cannondale introduces recycleable packaging

This and more in the latest online magazine.

With the DNGate clutch system the wheelset maintains inertia and rotation after the motor power is cut off. - Photo Bike Europe

DTboost saving power with frictionless hub motor

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Robotics specialist Da Shiang Automation (DSA) premiered a frictionless hub motor at this year's Taipei Cycle show. Entering the...

leg&go CEO Zaiga Kalnbērziņa and product developer Atis Garklavs (son of founder Egons) run the company in Latvia with three dozen employees. – Photo Peter Hummel

Latvian ingenuity making waves in the balance bike world

CĒSIS, Latvia - It is no coincidence that leg&go, the innovative wooden balance bike, comes from Latvia of all places. Firstly, this Baltic country...

CKC’s CK-TB7 biomass pedal has been designed specifically for repairability. – Photos Bike Europe

CKC focuses on repairability with biomass pedal

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Formed in 2016, CKC Environmental Technology focuses on using fibre particulate composite materials from the rice farming industry...

Vok’s two current models are the Standard (left) and XXL which both feature the serial hybrid drive. – Photo Vok

Estonian innovation combines in Vok serial hybrid cargobikes

TALLINN, Estonia - Tallinn appears to be a nucleus for e-mobility. The Kõu Group with Ampler and Comodule put Estonian expertise in this field on the...