義大利，LOMAZZO- 聲稱效能十分強大。據說很神奇、具革命性，甚至可以和塑膠的發明相提並論。我們所談論的是石墨烯。兩位發明石墨烯的科學家於2010年獲得諾貝爾獎顯示這項話題並非受到過度炒作。歐盟已經在研發程序上投入10億歐元補助也說明了這個事實。石墨烯已經應用在自行車產業上。

台灣，台中- 做為Trek和Specialized之後的第三大品牌，Giant正逐步在北美提升其能見度來增加市佔。「和去年同期相比，今年前半年我們在美國的IBD銷售額就成長了13.8%，」Giant Bicycle執行長羅祥安昨天在和Bloomberg的訪問中說。

SALT LAKE CITY, USA — The Governor's Office of Economic Development (GOED) in Utah, USA, along with Selle Royal group, announces that Selle Royal group will be opening a new facility in Utah, with a plan to generate 65 jobs in the next 7 years.

瑞士，AIGLE- 碟煞系統在公路車賽事中又朝正式批准邁出了一大步，國際自行車聯盟(UCI)宣布在2016年職業公路車賽事中將繼續測試碟煞系統。

JAKOBSTAD, Finland - Bicycle component producer Herrmans will open a warehouse in Shanghai to meet increasing demand for faster deliveries from OEM customers in China. The warehouse will be fully operational in May 2016.

ENSE-PARSIT, Germany - According to a local newspaper - the Saarbrücker Zeitung - Europe's biggest dealer cooperative ZEG is about to take-over Kettler's Hanweiler based bicycle factory. The Kettler management is currently working on an insolvency plan which is scheduled to be finalized together with the company's creditors at end of the year.

台灣，台中- 上星期自行車業界人士齊聚台中時，Rehau AG的商業分析師Dainel Quauck在ExtraEnergy露天展示會上向群眾問道：「誰有膽量和Rehau攜手前行?」

不斷增加的零售店數量代表了一個持續的趨勢，有更多的IBD都前往Interbike車展。 - Photo Interbike

WILTON, USA - Dorel Sports, a segment of Dorel Industries named Russell Merry Senior Vice President & General Manager North America and the UK, Cycling Sports Group. In this new role, Russell will have leadership of the Cycling Sports Group North America business. Whether this appointment is related to Dorel Sports' declining sales in Europe is not noted in the Dorel statement.

FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany - Eurobike 2015 kicked off today with the Demo Day giving bike professionals the opportunity to try out the latest bicycles. Though it was still raining cats and dogs last night the visitors of the outdoor enjoyed the sun all day.

FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany - This morning, at the opening press conference for Eurobike 2015, the sales figures for Germany in the first half of this year were presented. Like in 2014 also this year the German bike sector has once again had an outstanding start to the current season.

LUDHIANA, INDIA - Hero Cycles, India's biggest bike maker, has acquired a majority share in Avocet Sports; the Manchester, UK based importer and distributor of bikes, electric bicycles and P&A. With this take-over Hero meets its ambition to enter the European high-end markets.

STUTTGART, Germany - Distributor Paul Lange Group announced that its subsidiaries in the DACH-region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) as well as in the Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Slovakia and Ukraine are now also distributing: "Tyres, tubes and other products of the Schwalbe brand."

英國，倫敦- 自行車環法大賽第一站在約克郡舉行的時候，今年英國製自行車的銷售一飛衝天。根據國家統計局的最新數據，英國製自行車的製造與銷售幾乎跳升了70%。

AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands - At last Friday's press conference on the mid-year financial results of Accell Group NV the holding company of numerous bike companies reported a 13% turnover growth. This double digit plus was thanked to higher e-bike and sports bike sales. In particular e-bikes and Haibike's new e-Performance bikes are pushing Accell's turnover made with e-bikes to new highs.

LAKE FOREST, USA - Tenneco Inc. announces its intention to discontinue its Marzocchi Mountainbike and motorcycle fork suspension business and to liquidate its Marzocchi operations. According to Marzocchi's (Ride Performance Europe) OE sales manager Maarten Maes production is to continue to the end of this year and take-over discussions already started.

SCHWEINFURT, Germany - Last week Bike Europe reported that Winora - Haibike's offering in e-MTB's is exploding; from 12 models in MY 2015 to 41 for MY 2016. This is wrong.

VERONA, Italy - Three months to go before the opening of first edition of the CosmoBike Show, the organization reports that 400 companies have chosen for this event for launching 2016 innovations in Italy.

On July 1st 2015 the new international norm ISO 4210:2014 replaces the European norms EN 14764:2005 ff and will be valid on a global scale. Thun announces that their BB sets with German origin will fully comply with the new norm in order to meet the highest standards in terms of product safety. "When it comes to safety-related components such as the bb-set there is zero tolerance for mistakes," states Alfred Thun.

BERLIN, Germany - The one day cycling tour of German members of parliament has become one of the highlight events in German cycling advocacy. Yesterday more than hundred people joined the Members of Parliament in their cycling trip through the German capital.