Jack Oortwijn

CORK, Ireland - With a 6% growth of its business the world's largest online bike store - Chain Reaction Cycles Ireland Ltd - underperformed compared to many other web shops which generally speak of double digit growth rates.

FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany - The 25th edition of the world's leading bicycle trade show will see some strong conceptual changes. Organizer Messe Friedrichshafen announces that Eurobike 2016 will not only last one (public) day longer, but will also see a new Demo Area offering expanded test ride possibilities.

HEERENVEEN, the Netherlands - Accell Group NV announces that it will adjust the valuation of its UK pension plan on its balance sheet. The positive effect on equity is € 5.2 million as at 31 December 2014. The adjustment has a positive effect of € 0.4 million on the net profit in 2014 and has no impact on the company's operating activities and cash flows.

NANJING, China - After Bosch, Brose, Pon and others another automotive major has been stepping into electric bikes. The company did it low profile in 2014 and also at last August Eurobike still did not want to stand out. However at Asia Bike, the show in Nanjing, China that closed its doors last Monday, it displayed its e-bike system more openly.

NANJING, China - Last Monday the 5th Asia Bike trade Show taking place in Nanjing closed its doors after 13,224 visitors - 8,866 trade visitors and 4,358 bike fans - joined the exhibition. Here a total of 433 (2014: 487) brands, of which 72 percent international, presented their product innovations across over 40,000m² of exhibition space.

葡萄牙，AGUEDA- 自行車產業的供應鏈將會有巨大變革。葡萄牙鋁合金車架製造計畫引進德國汽車底盤製造技術到自行車產業，這可讓亞洲的車架製造比不上歐洲的車架製造，並在經濟上是可行的。

AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands - Every main European bike market showed impressive growth figures in 2014 for the sale of e-bikes, including the new categories of e-MTB's and speed e-bikes. Are e-bike sales in Europe starting to accelerate?

德國，慕尼黑- 在今年6月自行車城市大會和展覽表現亮眼：自行車共享系統營運商目前到底有多少個。自從JCDecaux和巴黎市議會在2007年開始採用Vélib以來，目前全球已有超過600個城市採用公共自行車概念，預計將成長為數十億歐元的商機。

義大利，CASELLA d'ASOLO- Selle Italia希望新產品與眾不同；利用全新製造技術及材料，時重量更輕、更舒適耐用，甚至對環境更友善。NET系列就這樣被製造出來了。

AGUEDA, Portugal - The supply chain of the bicycle industry is about to change drastically. An alloy frame production project in Portugal introducing German car chassis production technology in the bicycle industry could make European frame manufacturing incomparable to that in Asia and commercially viable.