This october at Roc d'Azur, carbon-composite specialist Workshape unveiled a bicycle brand: Obscur. The newly established French company worked for four years on its first bike, which aims to drastically improve the e-MTB riding experience.
Japanese component maker Shimano has raised its full-year operating income forecast for bicycle components by 10%, from JPY 39.0 billion to JPY 42.9 billion (EUR 244 million). Bicycle component sales rose 4.6% to JPY 278.4 billion (EUR 1.59 billion) in the first nine months of 2026, but fell 0.5% excluding currency effects.
With the acquisition of Sparta on October 15th, Tenways added an iconic Dutch bicycle brand to its portfolio. The Dutch brand founded by a Chinese-European team bought Sparta's assets and trademarks with an ambitious goal: to bring the bicycle brand back to the forefront of its home market.
Berlin-based e-bike brand Lemmo sells its Zero folding e-bike in China through carmakers rather than bicycle retail. Since a partnership with Nio began in 2025, the Zero has received tens of thousands of orders through the carmaker's Nio Life store.
Robert Bosch GmbH will transfer the German operations of its Mobility business sector, which includes all activities for the car and bicycle industries, into a separate, wholly owned subsidiary from 1 August 2027.
Swedish sports and outdoor company Thule Group raised its third-quarter operating margin to 20.0%, but mainly thanks to SEK 52 million (EUR 4.7 million) in refunded US import tariffs. Without them, the margin would have been 18.0%, in line with last year. The results come two days after the company's three largest shareholders pushed out chairman Hans Eckerström, who had planned to step down in spring 2027.
