Jan-Willem van Schaik

MONTREAL, Canada - Dorel's 2015 financial results are overshadowed by challenging currency rates. "The adverse exchange rates impacted our earnings by approximately US$ 43 million," said Dorel President and CEO Martin Schwartz at the presentation of the 2015 results.

CHICAGO, USA - Rockshox has completely re-engineered its Reverb dropper posts. According to the manufacturer, "All the smallest details, down to the single seal, have been re-evaluated and updated to pass longest durability tests."

NUNSPEET, the Netherlands - The introduction of Shimano groupsets is generally done in two stages, OEMs first followed by the After Market. It's not like that with the new Metrea. This will be available on the After Market before bikes spec'ed with this groupset are on the shop floor.

The Lava was Infini's best-selling bicycle headlight. Now the company has developed a Mini. In the January/February issue of Bike Europe we incorrectly wrote that the 'Mini' has a bigger output than the 'Lava'. These are the correct specifications:

德國，柏林- 今早由產業協會ZIV公布的2015年銷售數據指出，德國自行車市場表現亮眼。自行車又再次風行德國，不論在國內、外銷等市場，自行車、電動自行車、零組件與配件的銷售與製造都有成長。

葡萄牙，AGUEDA- 台灣的順捷股份有限公司將在葡萄牙自行車谷(Bike Valley Portugal)設立新自行車工廠。該公司在上星期的台北國際自行車展上宣布了這項消息。這是歐洲自行車產業所發起的回流專案「將製造帶回歐洲」的一大進展。

BERLIN, Germany - The 2015 sales statistics presented this morning by industry association ZIV show that the German bike market performed outstandingly. Cycling has become a popular again in Germany resulting in an increase in sales and production of bicycles, e-bikes, parts and components on the home market as well as in export.

AGUEDA, Portugal - Taiwan's Fritz Jou Manufacturing is opening a bicycle factory at Bike Valley Portugal. The company announced this at the Taipei Cycle Show last week. It's a major step forward in the 'bringing production back to Europe' initiatives and the reshoring project of the European bicycle industry.

TAIPEI, Taiwan - "To keep up the competitiveness of our bicycle industry in international markets we have implemented the 'Taiwan Bicycle Industry Standard' based on ISO 4210", said GM Chen Liang of the Cycling & Health Tech Industry R&D Center during the Taipei Cycle Show last week.

TAIPEI, Taiwan - The latest statistics released by the Taiwan Bicycle Association (TBA) show that Taiwan's bicycle export increased by 10.04% in 2015. Total export value reached 1.74 billion euro, compared to 1.58 billion euro in 2014. Also Taiwan's bicycle parts export rose last year by 5.45%, with total value reaching just over 1 billion euro.