BAD SODEN, Germany - "What is the range of this e-bike?" An important question and a key condition for many interested in buying an e-bike. So far, there have been various approaches to identify this objectively, but such procedures could only be compared to a very limited extent.

FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany - Last July 31 the partnership between Messe Friedrichshafen and the European Outdoor Group (EOG), conceptual owner of the European OutDoor trade show, officially ended. This triggered the start of a new show, organized solely by Messe Friedrichshafen, named Outdoor Friedrichshafen.

AGUEDA, Portugal - Miranda & Irmao is one of the initiators and strong promotors of the Portugal Bike Value. "This idea was born to make Portugal's industry stronger," says Miranda President Joao Miranda.

MONTREAL, Canada - Dorel Sports including Cycling Sports Group (Cannondale, GT, Mongoose among other brands as well as Pacific Cycle and Caloi) had a much better quarter than anticipated, surpassing earlier published expectations. Second quarter revenue increased USD 15.5 million, or 7.4%, to USD 224.5 million.

POZZOLEONE, Italy - It was presented at last month's Eurobike; the collaboration that Selle Royal, Herrmans and Curana started. This cooperation is about establishing colour and material fits for saddles, fenders and grips and through that offering OEMs integrated styling solutions.

CLUSES, France - The company is named Kervelo and has a background in the automotive industry. At last month's Eurobike it presented a striking combination of a 4, 6 or 12 speed gearbox with a 250W drive unit that fits with the current trend of highly integrated e-bikes.

PRAGUE, Czech Republic - While the regular speed limit for e-bikes is 25 km/h and km/h for speed pedelecs, Agogs recently launched the 32 km/h Tracer. According to Agogs "this maximum speed is much better suitable and comes closer to a regular bicycle experience".

HYDERABAD, India - Tronx Motors debut India's 1st smart electric bike named 'Tronx One'. The e-bike is regarded as a first step in building Tronx Motors EV into a mobility company. It's a subsidiary of Smartron India Private Ltd; a company with a background in mobile, compute and wearable electronic devices.

Just a day after Eurobike 2018 - on Wednesday, 11th July - the bike sppot's partners from WAGNER organised and hosted their first bicycle dedicated seminar - Bike Day, in their headquarters in Markdorf.

In brief, Eurobike 2018 was a success for the bike sppot! With a great colorful stand, hundreds of visitors, positive meetings, strong team spirit and all round good vibes.

BEIJING/WASHINGTON - If the Trump administration lives up to its threats of imposing a 25 percent tariff on USD 200 billion worth of Chinese goods, including bicycles, e-bikes and bike parts this would bring serious disruptions to the current world trade in bikes and parts. I

SCHWEINFURT, Germany - The new company name already appeared here and there, but since Eurobike it is official. Accell Bike Parts GmbH is that new company which founding signals the global launch of XLC which is Accell Group's Parts & Accessories brand.

AVEIRO, Portugal - Rodi's presentation of its first Portugal made carbon Black Jack wheelsets was the latest highlight of the company's successful transition in the past five years.

BAD URACH, Germany - COBI.Bike products are now available at Magura Bike Parts for European B2B customers. As a Bosch subsidiary and manufacturer of future-oriented connectivity solutions for bicycles and e-bikes, the COBI.Bike brand fits seamlessly into the existing portfolio of Magura.

葡萄牙，阿格達(Agueda)－台灣的順捷股份有限公司(Fritz Jou)在上月舉辦的Eurobike中表示，位葡萄牙的新廠已開始進行生產。這發生的比當初預期地還早，不過新設備還沒完全遷入，所以該廠尚未全面營運。

美國，聖胡安．卡皮斯特拉諾(San Juan Capistrano)－Eurobike上月剛結束，緊接而來的是9月18日到12日在內華達州(Nevada) 雷諾市(Reno)舉辦的 Interbike Expo。在該展結束後一週，便是台中自行車週。接著的是十月底眾所矚目的台北國際自行車展。

台灣，台中－Ride On其中成員之消息指出，由大約15家廠商組合而成的Ride On已結束參與台中自行車週。Ride On過去一直是台中週背後的最大推手。

日本，大阪－Shimano報告其2018上半年的淨銷售成長了7.1%。該公司財務報表顯示，尤其電動登山車的STEPS E8000馬達在市場上的熱度不減，因此自行車零部件的淨銷售增加了6.8%。