TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan's bicycle industry is changing its face. Finally, after years of decline in volume and value, more money is again coming in. Bike Europe's 4th online magazine focus on the turnaround of Taiwan's industry and what we can expect to find at the upcoming Taipei Cycle Show.

At Thun, we are well aware that an off-the-shelf center e-drive unit is not suitable for all electrified bikes. In this context, we have developed our X-CELL RT torque sensor.

Five is the company manufacturing electrical bikes with brand names Italwin and Wayel. Since november 2018 the internal manufacturing of batteries started through an automated production line.

BAD SODEN, Germany - E-bikes are boosting the German bicycle industry as the sales volume hiked by a staggering 36 percent in 2018 compared to 2017. No less than 980,000 units were sold last year. Today every one out of four bicycles sold in Germany is an electric one.

TAIPEI, Taiwan - This year's Taipei Cycle will be very different compared to former ones. New dimensions are added to the event presenting it with a different look and feel compared to the 31 previously held editions of the Taipei International Cycle Show.

REICHSHOF, Germany - Bicycle tyre supplier Ralf Bohle GmbH, owner of Schwalbe, increased its revenue by nearly 8 percent last year. "The warm and sunny weather made it an outstanding year for the entire bicycle industry", said Ralf Bohle GmbH's MD Frank Bohle.

PARIS, France - France and Paris are again looking to have a successful publicly accessible bicycle and e-bike show. At least this can be concluded from the very first Salon Vélo-in-Paris that took place from March 8 to 10 and attracted some 8,000 visitors.

PARIS, France -French e-bike manufacturer Moustache Bikes announces the sale of 55 percent of its shares to LBO France. This private equity company took over all the Moustache shares that were owned by Initiative & Finance, an investment fund that participated in Moustache Bikes since 2015.

芬蘭，赫爾辛基（Helsinki）－在上市公司Amer Sports Oyj宣佈欲出售自行車業務以作為其投資組合的一部份之後，該公司已和全球私人基金公司Rengent, LP達成獨家協議出售Mavic S.A.S，未公開價格，不過Amer Sports第二自行車零件品牌Enve並未包含在協議當中。

加拿大，蒙特婁（Montreal）－Dorel Industries Inc.在14日宣佈其體育部門（包含Cannondale、Schwinn、GT、Mongoose、Pacific Cycles和Caloi）去年業績大幅惡化，尤其第四季表現最差。Dorel Sports去年營收增加了1760萬美元，等同上升2%，達8.83億美元。不過與2017年的營利650萬美元比較，該公司虧損了2.321億美元。

荷蘭，鹿特丹（Rotterdam）－自行車產業在全球氣溫升高和溫室氣體排放中扮演重要角色的事實已漸趨明顯。今年6月4至5日舉辦的世界自行車產業論壇將會說明自行車業能如何以可行的商業方式來發揮其永續發展潛力。

美國，艾莫利維爾（Emeryville）－Decathlon在美國的首間超級量販店 （SuperStore）於三月稍早開幕，該運動用品零售巨頭再次敲著北美市場大門。繼去年在舊金山開設一間綜合功能性商店（稱lab store）之後，再於加州Emeryville的East Bay Bridge購物中心設立新店。

HEERENVEEN, the Netherlands - This year will be decisive for Accell Group's 'three pillar omni-channel strategy'. This strategy will be kicked off soon in the UK with the premiere of Haibike.co.uk.

LUDHIANA, India - Ludhiana based saddle brand Big-Ben appointed a Polish consultant Michael Koziarski to increase its product visibility and to emerge as a saddle brand in Europe. The company aspires to have wider footprints in the European market.

SAINT-JEAN-DE-MOIRANS, France - Rossignol Group SA, the French outdoor company, announces the restructuring of Time Sport, the premium road bike brand bought by the group in February 2016. The management has decided to cut jobs and to relocate production.

EMERYVILLE, USA - With the earlier this month opening of its first SuperStore, Decathlon is again trying to gain a foothold on the North American market. The SuperStore located in the East Bay Bridge shopping center in Emeryville, California comes after the French sports retail giant opened a 'lab store' in San Francisco last year. This was combined with a U.S. e-commerce site.

CAMBRIDGE, UK - Major online retailer Wiggle-Chain Reaction Cycles has confirmed that it will be joining the Bicycle Association of Great Britain - BAGB's leadership group and participating in the BAGB's new market data service which Bike Europe have reported on recently.

Just as the company celebrates its 100th anniversary, Fritz G. Baumgarten has joined the Thun management team in a dual role: as Director of Sales at Thun Germany and as Executive Director at Thun Tianjin