Bike Europe edition 8-2018

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.

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。」

德國，福吉沙芬(Friedrichshafen)－載貨自行車（電動與否）被稱為繼電動自行車之後的下一波流行。Eurobike跟著這股趨勢、關注其市場發展，在A1展館的一角規劃出載貨自行車專區 (Cargo Area)。

The European Commission has imposed provisional anti-dumping duties on e-bikes Imported from China. The Commission has opted for the imposition of per company targeted dumping duties. The provisional dumping duties varies

法國，巴黎（Paris）－去年德國和荷蘭的電動自行車銷售成長近四成，法國則是第三個有類似發展現象的國家。根據French Bicycles Observatory（法國自行車觀測機構）去年發佈的數據，電動自行車銷售創歷史新高，增加21%、達33,8萬輛。而該國的電動自行車目前銷售額為5.35億歐元，佔自行車總市值超過四成。

AMERSFOORT, the Netherlands - After a year that saw unprecedented growth in the main markets for e-bikes; one of those markets continues to show a large growth. During this year's first quarter the sale of city e-bikes (turnover-wise) grew by some 44 percent in the Netherlands.

ROTTERDAM, the Netherlands - The upcoming World Cycling Forum, taking place on June 4 and 5 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, offers participants the opportunity to visit the Cycling Laboratory of Delft University of Technology (TU Delft).

TAIPEI, Taiwan - With e-bikes becoming mainstream and the biggest category in Europe's main markets now a big bottleneck is surfacing; which could put the brakes firmly on further growth. That logjam is in the supply of mid to hi-end alloy frames. With demand growing fast questions are raised on production capacity.

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。

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。

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.

荷蘭，'s-Heerenberg－要發展全通路又不危害到現有的零售網絡沒這麼容易，Specialized在去年三月宣佈在歐洲市場實施全通路策略，從英國開始。大約一年後，Specialized在荷蘭及比利時推出「整合市場策略」（Integrated Market Place）。

DOETINCHEM, the Netherlands - First indications show that the sale of e-bikes started well this year. At least, this is reported for the Netherlands by dealer cooperative Dynamo Retail Group.

MUNICH, Germany - The World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry (WFSGI) teams up with ISPO, which is the largest platform and trade fair for the sports business, to enable the greatest possible number of businesses to benefit from the shared global labelling database.

CHICAGO, USA - Former SRAM Europe GM Patrick Brandwagt has been promoted to Global IT Program Director. Brandwagt's main responsibility will be ensuring the business and IT side of SRAM are aligned on their implementation priorities.

ZURICH, Switzerland - Trek Bicycle Europe announces the appointment of Harald Schmiedel to a newly created role as European Director of Sales. Harald will take up this role with responsibility for Trek's sales in its European subsidiary markets with immediate effect.

WASHINGTON, USA - The World Cycling Alliance, which has been initiated by the European Cyclist Federation (ECF) in June 2014, has now been officially launched as an international non-governmental organization (NGO).

LILLE, France - Decathlon detected a front mudguard defect on its B'Twin B'Original bikes sold between January 2016 and 31 August 2018. The French retail giant issued a voluntary recall in several countries including France, United Kingdom, Germany and the Netherlands

荷蘭，海倫芬（Heerenveen）－據荷蘭代理商協會Bovag預測，今年的市場交易量成長近三分之一。Accell Group執行長Ton Anbeek表示：「如果我們能夠準時取得零件的話，這數字還會再增加一到兩成。零件製造商需要投資提高產能以迎合需求。」