Jan-Willem van Schaik

GAND, Belgium - For the second time, the European Association for battery, hybrid and fuel cell electric vehicles AVERE LEV-TF will participate at Eurobike. In a joined booth AVERE LEV-TF and Light Electric Vehicle Association (LEVA) are presenting themselves on the first floor of the West Entrance, FW-OG103.

TOKYO, Japan - As part of its 25th anniversary SPD celebrations Shimano has released its second commemorative shoe and pedal combination of the year. Shimano's new M200 Blue Enduro/Trail shoe with matching blue XTR style M995 trail or M990 race pedals continues the trend set by a revolutionary design in 1990.

COLOGNE, Germany - To celebrate its 50th anniversary the German dealer cooperative ZEG hosted a dinner party for over 1,500 guests at the annual members meeting. During the dinner ZEG Managing Director Georg Honkomp announced interesting figures like, "Last year ZEG's dealer turnover passed one billion euro."

PRAGUE, Czech Republic - It was one of the few European countries missing a national, non-profit cycling organization representing bicycle users. That made representatives of the main cycling NGO's lead by Nadace Partnerství decided to join forces and establish a new Czech cycling federation.

FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany - To raise the bicycle industry's voice for increased political support of urban cycling the Cycling Industry Club (CIC) initiated an industry leader's bike ride to the Eurobike show venue on the opening day.

MATTIGHOFEN, Austria - In a joined declaration battery manufacturer Panasonic and KTM announced a voluntary recall of model year 2013 e-bikes with hub motors due to problems with the batteries.

ULFT, the Netherlands - Ever since its foundation in 1976 the Dutch bicycle accessory label Basil has strived to see people enjoy cycling. Just before the company is celebrating its 40th anniversary the brand Basil is repositioned.

中國、深圳 - 智慧型自行車設備製造商Livall在首次資本募集活動中，募集了1170萬歐元聯合基金。創投公司信中利集團投資了總部投於深圳、成立僅一年的新創公司。。

美國、MADISON - Trek為其實體零售商推出了一個新的電子商務平台，讓這些零售商在日益數位化的市場上更具競爭力。在該公司年度零售商大會上，主講者向美國零售商透露此項消息，讓零售商不用增加成本就能立即擁有網路零售商店、增加網路曝光度。

MADISON, USA - Trek has unveiled a new e-commerce platform designed to make its brick-and-mortar retailers more competitive in an increasingly digital marketplace. It was unveiled to US retailers at the keynote address of the company's annual retailer show and will enable retailers to instantly have an online retail presence at no added cost to them.