Jack Oortwijn

SCHWEINFURT, Germany - Last week Bike Europe reported that Winora - Haibike's offering in e-MTB's is exploding; from 12 models in MY 2015 to 41 for MY 2016. This is wrong.

BRUGES, Belgium - The first Trek Bicycle Store in the Benelux will be opened next September. In Europe there are already a number of Trek Bicycle Stores, but none in the Benelux. With bike shop Thooft in Bruges, Belgium that's to change.

DOETINCHEM, the Netherlands - It's again possible to post comments on the news and reports published at bike-eu.com. With the transition to our new publisher Vakmedianet this function was offline for a while. It has been restored and now everyone can again post comments without the need for a login code.

COLOGNE, Germany - On July 1, 2015 BMC Switzerland AG and the Zweirad Einkaufs Genossenschaft eG (ZEG) entered into a cooperation. For now the cooperation is targeted to the Dutch, Belgian and French markets.

LEIDEN, the Netherlands - Last Sunday, July 12th Frank Moons died at his house in Mallorca, Spain. The tragic news on the death of the co-founder of BBB Cycling raises lots of reactions all around the world.

BARCELONA, Spain - Close to 1.1 million bikes were sold in Spain last year. According to the 'Bicycle 2014' study by AMBE, the national association of manufacturers, importers and distributors in Spain, the number represented a 5.2% growth in unit sales. Consumption of cycling products grew bigger and even outperformed sales of all other sports categories.

CHICAGO, USA - After 14 years on Chicago's Kingsbury Street, SRAM LLC, the world's second largest bicycle component manufacturer, has relocated its global headquarters to the hot West Loop neighbourhood of Chicago. The SRAM team officially moved into the 1000 West Fulton Market Street facility June 1

荷蘭，ALMERE - Gazelle、Derby、BBB和Cervélo的所有人Pon Holdings，於上星期五宣布收購總部位於加州的高階登山車製造商 - Santa Bruz Bicycles。這項收購就發生在Pon收購主要國際零配件進出口商BBB Cycling的幾個月後。

ALMERE, Netherlands - Last Friday Gazelle, Derby, BBB and Cervélo owner Pon Holdings announced to have acquired Santa Cruz Bicycles, the California-based high-end MTB maker. This take-over comes only a few months after Pon bought BBB Cycling; a major worldwide operating P&A importer and distributor.

MILAN, Italy - The e-bike that recharges while pedaling, that's what Velorapida electric bicycles are all about. As well as being vintage.