Jan-Willem van Schaik
Editor in Chief

Editor in Chief


COLOGNE, Germany - Dealer cooperative ZEG announces its entrance on the Swiss market. "We consistently continue our strategy of market expansion and diversification which made us so successful in the past 50 years," says ZEG Managing Director Georg Honkomp.

AMSTERDAM/BRUSSELS - In two separate events the Dutch and Belgium industry organizations announced their bikes, e-bike and speed e-bikes of the year.

TAICHUNG, Taiwan - The 7th edition of the OEM event in Taiwan's bike metropolis will be organized as a joint effort of the Taichung Bike Week and Eurobike. Both parties announced to work closely together and envision an event that will stretch across several exhibition areas and utilize a new matchmaking tool.

TAICHUNG, Taiwan - In its 2015 financial statement, Giant Manufacturing Co Ltd reports that, "While sales at home, the US and in Japan were solid last year, they declined 17 percent year-on-year in China. Due to the depreciation of the euro, sales in Europe improved only slightly."

比利時,BERINGEN- 超過400人參加了上星期五的Flanders自行車谷新建物啟用典禮。這裡最引人注目的當然就是自行車專用風洞了。然而,此自行車谷尚不止於此。

日本,大阪- 在預見UCI最終仍會批准在職業公路車賽事上使用碟煞系統,Shimano擴展其油壓碟煞系統產品到Tiagra系列上。先前Shimano已經推出了Ultegra、105變速系統的油壓煞車系統和Sora機械式碟煞系統,同時未經證實的消息指出下一個產品將會是Dura-Ace公路車專用的油壓碟煞系統。

BERINGEN, Belgium - Over 400 people attended the opening of the new building of Flanders' Bike Valley last Friday. The big eye-catcher here is of course the bike dedicated wind tunnel. However, this bike valley is more than that.

HEERENVEEN, the Netherlands - Accell Group today announces that it sells the USA parts & accessories activities of Seattle Bike Supply to Hawley-Lambert, a P&A company based in the USA and Canada.

OSAKA, Japan - Anticipating on UCI's final approval to allow disc brakes in professional road racing, Shimano extends its hydraulic disc brake range to Tiagra. Previously Shimano already introduced Ultegra and 105 hydro brakes and Sora mechanical disc brakes while unconfirmed sources state that Dura-Ace road-specific hydraulic disc brakes will be next.

德國,HARTMANNSDORF- 電動自行車在荷蘭和德國市場重要性與日俱增,造成了Trek一系列策略的改變。以登山車和公路車等車系產品聞名於世的Trek,現在也更加重視電動自行車了。