Shimano American Corporation today announced a voluntary recall of a Pro mountainbike handlebar stem. It appeared that the bolts holding the front plate ...

WASHINGTON, USA - Specialized Bicycle Components Inc. announced a voluntary recall of the China made TL-83 brake levers. Earlier this year Specialized ...

W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. announced a voluntary recall of specific styles Gore Ride On low friction brake and professional brake cables as mentioned ...

Last Friday the EU rapid alert system for dangerous consumer products, RAPEX, announced the voluntary withdrawal from the market by Merida of its ...

BRUSSELS, Belgium - Safety Gate is the European Union's alert system for consumer products that show a safety risk. The system was introduced by the General Product Safety Directive of 2001. Previously known as RAPEX, Safety Gate allows rapid exchange of information among member states and the Commission about unsafe products and the measures taken by the member states to deal with that safety problem.

MEQUON, US - Yesterday Hayes announced a voluntary recall of the SunRingle hollow quick release devices. Until now the company received four reports of ...

BAD URACH, Germany - Magura recalls the first production batch of the Durin Race 80/100 (MD 80R and MD 100R) suspension forks. Magura has found faults, ...

NAGOYA, Japan (June 2) - Tsunoda Co. announced that it will recall 1.123 folding bikes due to defective frames and replace them with up-to-date models. ...

VITORIA-GASTEIZ, Spain - Bike manufacturer BH Bikes Europe S.L is one of the traditional bicycle suppliers from the Basque Country. BH stands for 'Beistegui Hermanos', which translates to 'Beistegui brothers'. The company was founded in 1909 with the production of revolver guns. 14 years later, they began manufacturing bicycles. Today, the fourth generation of the family, Javier Beistegui, is at the helm.

VILLARROBLEDO, Spain - "Somewhere in la Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, ..." - this is the beginning of the novel 'Don Quixote de la Mancha' by Spanish poet Miguel de Cervantes. Bike Europe didn't go in search of Don Quixote in the autonomous region of Castilla-La Mancha. Instead in the small town of Villarrobledo, 200 km southeast of Madrid it was time to find out what the small, custom bike manufacturer Berria Bikes S.L. has to do with Switzerland.

MALLABIA, Spain - How deeply bike manufacturer Orbea S. Coop. is rooted in its home country, visitors realise immediately on arrival: the first language is Basque - followed by English. During a visit to the company headquarters and production facility in Mallabia, Bike Europe found out what else sets this Basque bicycle manufacturer apart from its domestic and international competitors.

BORRALHA, Portugal - As part of its reshoring ambitions, the Portuguese bicycle industry association ABIMOTA invited an industry delegation from Taiwan to Águeda already in 2015. The participants were detailly informed about all possibilities of a close-to-the-market production in the EU.

英國，倫敦（LONDON）－在其他歐洲市場，高價單品銷售可能足以彌補銷量減少的損失，但在英國市場情況不一定如此。該國市場在後疫時期銷量衰退，2022年總市值減少18%，2023年更進一步減少6%。此外，最新資料證實，英國市場去年「常規自行車銷量為本世紀最糟」。

瑞士，奧伯旺根（OBERWANGEN）－儘管歐洲市場整體呈現停滯或下降趨勢，高階電動自行車品牌Stromer和Desiknio的母公司myStromer AG卻逆勢而上，不斷擴大其在荷蘭和比利時市場的份額。該公司在具有挑戰性的美國電動自行車市場亦實現了雙位數（綜合）增長。

捷克，科普日夫尼采（KOPRIVNICE）－自行車製造商Bike Fun International（BFI）已指派René Gasser擔任新執行長，他將於4月1日接手，他自2009年起便任職於BFI。

台灣，台中－Giant Group去年財報表示，中國市場自行車銷量大增不足以彌補北美和歐洲市場低中階產品需求疲軟。該公司概述內容顯示，綜合銷售額減少16.4%，降至新台幣769.5億元。

德國，什文福（SCHWEINFURT）－改裝電動自行車大幅增加電池著火的風險，高速騎乘需要更大動力輸出，但這與電池管理系統的設定不符，Velotech專家Ernst Brust因此呼籲應強制整合一致的藍芽介面。

英國，諾丁漢（NOTTINGHAM）－英國自行車製造商有鑑於艱鉅的市場環境，決定裁員並將總部遷址，此舉也是為「更好將Accell UK整合至Accell Group」。

比利時，布魯塞爾（BRUSSELS）—歐盟理事會（European Council）與歐洲議會（European Parliament）於本月13日最終輪談判中，就《關鍵原物料法案》（Critical Raw Materials Act）達成協議，建立框架確保永續供應關鍵原物料。該法亦對L類別之下的「輕型運輸設備」或電動自行車帶來影響。

荷蘭，HEERENVEEN- Accell Group日前發現一起台灣員工嚴重盜領財物事件。該事件和實際損失估算的調查還在進行當中。此盜領事件預估將會對Accell Group的淨利影響最多達到400萬歐元。