Jan-Willem van Schaik

KIRCHBERG, Austria - In the months ahead of Eurobike an ever growing number of brands and companies in the bicycle industry tried to get as much as possible media coverage. Eurobike organizer Messe Friedrichshafen recognized this trend and successfully created a new event to facility the need for growing media coverage.

SURENES, France - Global protective sports gear supplier Bollé entered the cycling market with its first ever line of helmets. This move is a logical extension of the Bollé product range as the company has many year of experience producing helmets for snow sports.

TAICHUNG, Taiwan - As third largest brand behind Trek and Specialized, Giant is stepping up its presence on the North American market to grow its market share. "In the first half of this year our IBD sales in the US are up 13.8 percent compared with the same period last year," said Giant Bicycle CEO Tony Lo yesterday in an interview with Bloomberg.

TAIPEI, Taiwan - 18 December is the closing date for registration for the Taipei Cycle d&i awards 2016. Exhibitors as well as non-exhibitors of the Taipei Cycle show are invited to participate in competition.

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Tern and Xtracycle design partnered this fall to successfully crowdfund a full-sized folding cargo-bike on Kickstarter. Their project, the Cargo Node, raised over 140,000 euro from supporters across three continents. "The campaign proved that consumers around the world see the potential of folding cargo-bikes," says Josh Hon, founder and Team Captain of Tern.

IRVINE, USA - Felt bicycle issued a voluntary recall after they received 10 reports of the seat post cracking. All bikes were sold by IBDs between August 2014 through September 2015.

BRUSSELS, Belgium - Light Electric Vehicles (LEVs), including e-bikes could make (urban) transport much more sustainable. This interactive webinar will provide in-depth information on how to promote their uptake and use.

瑞士，AIGLE- 碟煞系統在公路車賽事中又朝正式批准邁出了一大步，國際自行車聯盟(UCI)宣布在2016年職業公路車賽事中將繼續測試碟煞系統。

義大利，米蘭- Piaggio在2014年的米蘭國際摩托車展EICMA裡，已經宣布進入電動自行車市場，並展示了一輛時尚的車款。從那之後，沒有太多來自這家義大利速克達製造商的消息，直到上個星期，他們又推出了Wi-Bike。

MÜNSTER, Germany - Following the takeover of the fender brand Wingee last October, Tubus carrier systems recently announced the acquisition of 33 percent of the shares of Becatex GmbH.