TAIPEI, Taiwan — Josh Hon, Founder and Team Captain of Tern Bicycles, will deliver a talk on "Accelerating the Goal of Sustainable Transportation in Asia" at the Velo-city 2016 conference on March 1st in Taipei. Velo-city, the world's foremost conference for bicycle advocacy, policy and research. Velo-city 2016 is a unique iteration of the conference, the first ever hosted in Asia.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Despite a cool, wet spring and early summer, bicycle sales and usage in Sweden increased this year. The volumes would even have been bigger if the Swedish kronor had not weakened against the US dollar, which forced suppliers to raise prices by 15-20% at the start of the season.

TAICHUNG, Taiwan - They are not the first as the first electric road racers were on display at Eurobike 2014. But since the industries' attitude towards such models can best be described as ambivalent. Is Giant changing all this with their launch of two very serious looking Road E models?

NOTTINGHAM, UK - They will be made at Meghna in Bangladesh and with that come to the EU states at 0% import duty; a range of Dahon's Ford bikes. They will be launched at the upcoming Taipei Cycle Show by UK based distributor Direct365 Ltd.

HELSINKI, Finland - To grow its slow cycling business (-2% in 2015), Amer Sports Corporation has acquired ENVE Composites. Amer Sports reports that, "the US based company ENVE brings capabilities in carbon technology, and it offers operational scale and synergy benefits complementing our cycling category."

TAIPEI, Taiwan - The 2016 edition of Velo-city Global in Taipei will host two Industry Days where insiders such as Anthony Lo from Giant and John Burke from Trek will discuss the economics of cycling, the role of advocacy in growing the market and why we need successful policies to increase sales for everyone.

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Bike Europe and the bike dealer magazine for the Netherlands and Belgium, Tweewieler will be exhibiting at the 29th Taipei Cycle.

OSLO, Norway - The bicycle season in Norway made a very slow start due to cold spring weather. Later in the summer the market did not manage to make up for the earlier losses. The Norwegian Sporting Goods Association (Sportsbransjen AS) estimates the total market for 2015 at 400,000 units, down 2.5% from 410,000 units last year.

HELSINKI, Finland - In the past years, the Finnish bicycle market showed two parallel developments. The demand for better and more technical bikes is increasing, but on the other hand the market for low-cost bikes is also flourishing. This trend continued in 2015.

TREVISO, Italy - Italian road racing icon brand Pinarello will not exhibit at Eurobike 2016. That the company skips the biggest bike show in the world this year is due to "radically changed business strategies."

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Founded as a folding bike company five years ago, Tern is celebrating this anniversary with the introduction of a completely new bike line developed in collaboration with the Japanese design studio Kitt Design.

BUSNAGO, Italy - Steven Merlini who announced last December that it was time for a change after 21 years at Selle Italia, found a new challenge at the sales and marketing team of Prologo.

AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands - During the Dutch presidency of the Council of the European Union from January till June this year, the Netherlands aims to increase the number of kilometres cycled in Europe. Therefore Dutch embassies in cooperation with local stakeholders will organize a series of cycling activities.

TAIPEI, Taiwan - As part of the first ever Cycling Industry Club Advocacy Summit in Taipei the 'industry leader's panel' will focus on how the industry can build on that knowledge and work together to grow the market.

比利時，布魯塞爾- 目前歐盟市場情況並未受到11月26日歐洲法院對Giant China取消傾銷定罪判決的影響。明年該企業出口到歐洲的一般自行車將持續被課48.5%的反傾銷稅。這是歐洲自行車製造商協會(EBMA)提起上訴的結果。

瑞士，HUTTWILL- 和最近在奧地利與之前在其他國家所做的事一樣，瑞士電動自行車製造商Biketec AG (Flyer製造商)現在控制了其在比荷盧的分銷網絡；這些國家是其最重要的市場之一。Biketec已經接管了比荷盧進品商Amazing Wheels。

日本，大阪- Shimano在2015年財務業績摘要報告中表示歐洲高階與電動自行車相關的產品需求旺盛。儘管銷售量較低，Shimano仍持續在2015年達成兩位數的成長。自行車零組件的淨銷售額成長了14.6%為3140.1億日元(24.63億歐元)，其中營業和淨收入甚至以更大的數據成長。

美國，BIG FLATS-美國聯邦巡迴上訴法院對Stan's NoTubes和Specialized之間的長期鬥爭決定維持先前由審理暨訴願委員會的判決，也就是宣布Stan's NoTubes的美國專利是有效的。