Jan-Willem van Schaik

MILAN, Italy - Pirelli has started producing its cycling tyres in the Bollate factory based nearby Milan. The facility has undergone a period of modernisation and an overhaul process to accommodate the production of Pirelli Cycling's top-of-the-range lines.

TAIPEI, Taiwan - This morning, the 2022 edition of Taipei Cycle has begun together with its virtual counterpart Taipei Cycle DigitalGo. Over the past two years Taiwan's bicycle industry made a massive transformation to e-bikes and is now fully focused on serving the rapidly changing global market.

TALLINN, Estonia - The opening of the test and service hub in downtown Amsterdam, the Netherlands, marked the introduction of the next generation Ampler e-bikes. The Estonian manufacturer was founded only six years ago with a strong focus on international and online distribution.

HEERENVEEN, the Netherlands - "While demand across our regions and product categories remained strong in 2021, we cannot close our eyes for the significant uncertainties we face in the world today and how these can impact our business and performance," said Accell Group CEO Ton Anbeek today at the presentation of the annual results. Last year the company's net sales increased by 6% to € 1.377 billion.

SCHIPHOL, the Netherlands - Europe is the next market for Yamaha to introduce a series of electric personal mobility products. In the première of Switch ON program, Yamaha revealed this morning details of its future electric models. Eric de Seynes, Yamaha Motor Europe's President & CEO explained more.

TAIPEI, Taiwan - It is regarded as one of the main challenges for e-bike and bicycle assemblers today, having all components in stock in time to deliver a complete bike. Still Taiwan's e-bike and bicycle assemblers managed to generate double digit growth volumes last year.

TAIPEI, Taiwan - At the Taipei Cycle 2022 kick-off event yesterday in Taipei, the winners of the annual design and innovations awards were revealed. A total of 33 entries were awarded of which 4 in the category 'e-bikes and drive units'. The six Gold Awards will be unveiled on the first day of Taipei International Cycle Show on 9 March 2022.

ANADIA, Portugal - An all-new e-bike production facility with a capacity of up to 50,000 units annually, has started production in Portugal. Based in the middle of the Portugal Bike Value, Bikap presents itself as 'carbon neutral' factory.

BRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Commission has decided to classify e-bikes powered via a generator and not driven via a chain as regular 25 km/h and 250W e-bikes excluded from Regulation 168/2013 following Article 2.2(h). Until now for these bikes type-approval in the L-category was required. This proved to be a legal bottleneck for technological development and successful market introductions.

CHICAGO, USA - Not for the first time, it is hinted that components manufacturer SRAM has developed an e-bike drive system. The American's have a sort of love-hate relationship with electric drive systems. After each attempt to enter the market, they went back to their roots. However, the rapidly growing e-MTB market in the US has changed this situation drastically.