Bike Europe edition 6/7-2018!

MONTRÉAL, Canada - Dorel Industries has sold the Sugoi and Sombrio brands to Louis Garneau Sports. The company is divesting its performance apparel line of business to focus on its core strategic businesses of bikes, parts and accessories and electric ride-ons.

OSTERMUNDIGEN, Switzerland - The UCI's announcement to allow disc brakes to be used in all road competition as of 1 July 2018 is welcomed by the World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry (WFSGI). Both organisations worked closely together on this case since 2015.

FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany - Removing VAT from all bikes and e-bikes in Europe? Investments of millions of Euros in cycling? Compulsory insurance threat for e-bike success? These are all topics on the agenda for Eurobike's Cycling Industry Leaders' summit, taking place the morning of Tuesday 10 July.

Kids' bikes are mainly sold through specialist stores and toy shops. In that sense, Edwin Woudt from the Dutch town of Koog aan de Zaan kills two birds with one stone, because his bike shop, called Woudt de Fietsspecialist, is combined with a branch of Intertoys.

BRUSSELS, Belgium - "The European Commission's decision to register imports of e-bikes from China has caused great injury to companies," reports the Collective of European Importers of Electric Bicycles. "Not only to the members of the collective but to many more SMEs throughout Europe."

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Roxim Technologies, Inc. has successfully integrated both high and low beams into a small sized front light, the 'Z4E Pro'. This new front light complies with ECE R113 class B regulation.

比利時，布魯塞爾(Brussels)－歐洲統計局(Eurostat) 2017年的資料顯示，進口至歐盟28成員國的常規自行車數量在經過多年的下滑之後，再度往上爬了！難道這是在說市場對於常規自行車的需求又再增加了嗎？還是還會有其他跡象出現？

德國，福吉沙芬(Friedrichshafen)－電動自行車產業不斷在推陳出新，為響應這股熱潮，Eurobike的A1館已設為「E-mobility Solutions」專館。該館將會另設舞台展出2019年車款的先進技術。屆時將能看到各式新的行動解決方案，而且幾乎所有自行車類別都有推出電動版本。

德國，福吉沙芬(Friedrichshafen)－因應現在網路購物消費者的崛起，今年Bike Europe主題為「網路銷售背後的真相」。Scott及Adrian Montgomery將主講網路銷售在美國所帶來的改變。

台灣，台北－台灣自行車協會(TBA)報告，今年前五個月的電動自行車出口同比增長38.9%。出口至少有110,548輛，其中有71,979輛是出口到歐洲。台灣去年出口到歐盟的電動自行車共有126,132輛。

Introduced as a Kickstarter project Blaze and rebranded this year as 'beryl' the company will bring out a new generation of lights for city-cyclists at Eurobike. "We want to be the most-loved consumer brand in the urban cycling space," said beryl founder and CEO Emily Brooke.

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The Taiwan Bicycle Association reported a 38.9 percent year-on-year increase in the export of e-bikes in the first five months of the year. No less than 110,548 units were shipped of which 71,979 were distributed in Europe. During the whole year of 2017 Taiwan shipped a total of 126,132 e-bikes to the European Union.

Main theme of this year's Bike Europe Conference is: Behind the Scenes of Online Sales. It has everything to do with the inevitable presence of online shopping consumers. Scott and Adrian Montgomery will address the changes online sales brought in the U.S.

DENVER, USA - Gates Industrial Corporation, maker of the Gates Carbon Drive belt system, will launch a suite of new products at the Eurobike trade show. This includes a direct-mount crankset and e-bike components for recently released mid-drive motors.

LUDHIANA, India - Indianapolis, USA based Deflecto LLC entered into the India bike market by opening a wholly-owned subsidiary Sate-lite Technologies Pvt Ltd. This subsidiary operates a manufacturing plant in the outskirts of Chandigarh, in the North India.

Is it a first sign of much more to come? That's the big question when viewing the Eurostat data on the 2017 import of conventional bicycles into the EU 28 member states from countries outside the EU. After years of decline this import is growing again. Is it an indication that demand for regular bikes is rising?