Jack Oortwijn

BRUSSELS, Belgium - Cycling Industries Europe 2020 Summit will be all about how cycling industries can transform Europe's mobility sector and massively contribute to reaching the goals set in Europe's Green Deal.

SHANGHAI, China - Today the China International Bicycle Exhibition Organizing Committee announces that the May 6 - 9, 2020 China Cycle Show is "Still on Schedule and is actively and steadily advancing various preparations."

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Next to the news that the daily number of casualties in China is now dropping; it's also reported that Giant and Merida have resumed their operations in China. Is it a first indication that things are normalizing in China?

BRUSSELS, Belgium - Eurostat import figures for the first nine months of 2019 clearly point to the fact that Taiwan is working hard to take over China's role in supplying electric bicycles to EU countries. The industry of the island off the coast of China transformed successfully to e-bikes as it is 'electrifying' rapidly.

AMERSFOORT, the Netherlands - It took some time for this category to catch up with overall e-bike sales in Holland. But that's changing now and even to such an extent that a breakthrough is taking place for the e-MTB category.

BRUSSELS, Belgium - At an early February Symposium in Brussels titled: 'Symposium on Legal Status and Market Position of Speed Pedelecs' it appeared that there is rising pressure on the European Commission to include electric step-scooters in the type-approval.

SANTA CRUZ, USA - It says everything about the rapidly increasing popularity (and worldwide sales) of e-MTBs; the fact that even Santa Cruz now sells this type of Mountainbikes.

BRUSSELS, Belgium - Yesterday, the European Commission has launched a procedure to temporarily withdraw tariff preferences granted to Cambodia under the Everything But Arms (EBA) arrangement over concerns related to serious human and labour rights violations.

TAIPEI, Taiwan - The first reactions from industry sources on this morning's news that Taipei Cycle is postponed to May 14 to 16, 2020, is that it will bring major changes to the Show. Changes that go beyond size; the number of exhibitors and exhibition area.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark - The market development is the same as that which is currently happening in many other countries. Sales of regular bicycles are stagnating while e-bike sales are growing. That is the picture that the Danish market presents for 2018 and during the first ten months of 2019.