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All
  • All
  • Bike Bearings
  • Bike Handlebars
  • Bottom Bracket
  • Building a Bike
  • Carbon Emissions
  • Chainring
  • CNC Milling
  • Crankset
  • E-bike
  • Headsets
  • Taichung Bike Week
  • Taipei Cycle
  • Taiwan KOM
Taiwan KOM steep climb
Taiwan KOM

The Taiwan KOM—The World’s Toughest Climbing Event?

Updated yearlyLast update Nov 25 2024 Since 2012 the cycling ...
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E-bike

Battery Safety, Design Directions, Theft Prevention

Preventing e-bike theft is important since potential loss to thieves ...
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E-bike

E-Cargo Design, Fat Tire Trend, 3D Printed Modular E-bikes

The e-bike category became saturated in the two years following ...
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E-bike

Hydrogen, Infrastructure, New Tech at the Decade’s Half-way Point

The bike industry is at a halfway point to somewhere—where ...
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E-bike

Eurobike 2024 – Motors, Batteries, Autoshifting, and City Bikes

As a follow up to last month’s mid year appraisal ...
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E-bike

What Makes a Great E-bike in Mid-2024?

A great e-bike is one that satisfies its market segment ...
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E-bike

More Obstacles to E-bike Adoption

E-bike adoption worldwide is steadily increasing and likely to continue ...
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E-bike

Ultimate Bike Products Discovery Guide

This month, a brief digression from our series looking at ...
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Taipei Cycle

Taipei Cycle: Startups, Design “Innovation” (plus the Light and the Stylish)

The month of March is Taipei Cycle time—this year a ...
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