荷蘭，海倫芬（Heerenveen）－Uwe Kalliwoda這一位全球知名的業界傳奇已宣佈退休。他過去不僅是Ghost的創辦人之一，同時也是Acell Group NV的資深經理，該公司在2008年收購了Ghost。

德國，紐倫堡（Nuremberg）－市場研究顧問公司GfK指出，由於中國電商巨頭在行動商務（透過行動化裝置進行網務交易活動）佔有優勢，他們將會轉往歐洲拓展。尤其歐洲的線上銷售正不斷快速成長，儘管該區的科技消費性產品（包含電動自行車及相關產品）銷售仍落後於全球。

Merida's e-bike shipments reached 93,300 units in the first seven months on this year up 63 percent or 57,000 units on the 2017 total for the same period. Financial analysists report that the company could see e-bike revenue contributions to rise to 30 percent of its total sales.

TAIPEI, Taiwan - The latest Taiwan Bicycle Association (TBA) statistics show a major improvement of the country's bicycle and e-bike industry's performance. According to the TBA e-bike exports increased 44.9 percent to 155,910 units between January and July this year.

PONTEDERA, Italy - The iconic Vespa scooter gets electrified. This month Piaggio Group (owner of Aprilia, Derbi, Gilera, Moto Guzzi, Piaggio and Vespa) starts series production of the 'Vespa Elettrica'. Sales (online only) starts in October at a dedicated webshop.

He is widely known throughout the industry in Europe as well as in Asia. And not only as one of the founders of Ghost, as he became one of the senior executives of Accell Group NV after this company took over Ghost in 2008. Uwe Kalliwoda has retired and says goodbye to all his relations in a recent farewell letter.

NUREMBERG, Germany - As Chinese e-commerce giants are well positioned in the area of m-commerce (online sales through mobile devices) market researcher GfK reports that they will turn to Europe for their next battleground. In particular as online sales continues to grow rapidly in the EU, but is still lagging behind

LILLE, France - French Decathlon has acquired Swiss sports store chain Athleticum from Maus Frères for an undisclosed amount. So far, Decathlon had only two stores and a webshop in Switzerland but now the store count jumped to 23 locations.

BERLIN, Germany - E-bike sales in Germany continues to outperform this year. According to the latest estimates of the German industry association 'Zweirad Industrie Verband' (ZIV) around 670,000 units were sold

BRUSSELS, Belgium - The next edition of Velo-city Conference Series, co-organised by Dublin City Council and the European Cyclists' Federation (ECF), will take place in Dublin, Ireland from 25th to 28th June 2019. Velo-city 2019 Dublin is pleased to open the Call for Abstracts

AMERSFOORT, the Netherlands - Former SRAM Europe General Manager Martin van Beek (58) was involved in a fatal accident last Sunday. Van Beek has been with SRAM from 1993 to 31 August 2008.

Thun welcomes two new product engineers, David Hune and Antoine Gufflet to Thun's R&D team. The new recruits complement the company's growing team of young professionals.

荷蘭，鹿特丹(Rotterdam)－繼去年第一屆世界自行車產業論壇(World Cycling Forum)成功落幕之後，本社將與世界體育用品聯盟WFSGI再次聯手舉辦第二屆論壇，聚焦於這個產業的熱門議題。

美國，華盛頓 (Washington)－美國總統川普引發的美中貿易戰造成自中國進口的自行車、電動自行車及相關商品都被列在25%關稅的商品清單中。原本11%的進口關稅再加上額外的25%，等於中國自行車需繳納36%的關稅。據美國最大自行車進口商Huffy Corporation表示，這將重挫自行車銷售，而且會壓垮美國自行車產業。

比利時，根特(Gand)－歐洲電動自行車進口商集團近期進行了一項調查，以了解進口登記政策及臨時反傾銷稅對進口商造成的影響程度。調查結果顯示，達33%的進口商已停止從中國進口電動自行車，而且尚未找到替代方案。

美國，舊金山 (San Francisco)－Uber正從汽車跨入電動自行車及機車代步服務以專攻短程旅客，作為該公司長期策略的一部分。Uber執行長Dara Khosrowshahi表示：「儘管這會和現有汽車駕駛競爭，不過提供更多個人交通工具，會更適合市區內移動。」

ROTTERDAM, the Netherlands - Following the successful first World Cycling Forum held in Porto last year, this trade journal in cooperation with the World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry (WFSGI) will organize the second edition of this International Conference that focusses on the top of the industry.

The by President Trump triggered trade war with China has led the United States to charge the import of regular bicycles as well as electric bikes and bike products from China with a 25 percent tariff. This comes on top of the regular 11 percent import duty (on ordinary bicycles) resulting in a total import tax rate of