Jan-Willem van Schaik
Editor in Chief

Editor in Chief


FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany - In the weeks before Eurobike opened its doors for the last time in Friedrichshafen, it was unclear how many visitors would make the trip to Southern Germany. After two years without an international industry gathering, many from Europe were well prepared to attend the event

MUNICH, Germany - Today Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel will open the first edition of IAA Mobility which takes place from September 7 to 12. "Mobility is one of society's foremost topics. The main focus will be solutions on the path to climate neutrality,"

FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany - The drastic impact of component shortages take over almost all other topics among industry insiders at Eurobike. At the opening day it was soon clear that a normalization of the situation on the international e-bike and bicycles markets is not expected any time soon.
Subscribers onlyIs the German industry able to keep up demand at that unprecedented high level? At the press conference preceding the opening of Eurobike tomorrow, the German industry association ZIV announced the e-bike and bicycles sales results for the first half of 2021.

DOETINCHEM, the Netherlands - What will Eurobike 2021 bring? What are the new realities to be featured by the world's biggest bike show that opens its doors tomorrow? The pandemic created an all-new reality for the e-bike industry.

MANISA, Turkey - Electronics giant, Vestel, steps up its plans to grow in its battery solutions business. Already up-and-running, Vestel Battery Solutions has kick-started its ambitious expansion with the manufacture of e-bike battery pack designs.

FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany - Bike Europe and the bike dealer magazine for the Netherlands and Belgium, Tweewieler (both trade journals published by Vakmedianet), will be present at the 29th edition of Eurobike.

Messingschlager supports OEM customers in bringing their own e‐bike models to market maturity in a maximum of 12 months based on eight Messingschlager e‐bike concepts.

On Thursday 2 September, LEVA-EU organizes an information meeting on hot topics on the agenda. These include the review of technical legislation for e-bikes and all other LEVs, the standardization for e-bikes, e-cargobikes and personal transporters, the EU proposal for a new battery regulation and COP26.

NANTONG, China - Dingyu Manufacturing has developed a new concept for the manufacturing of custom-made frames whereby customers can choose from various dropouts, head tubes, motor brackets for Shimano, Bosch and Bafang systems. All components and tubes are designed to limit the number of welds to five.