Blogs
Car Industry’s Bad Track Record on Electric Vehicles
In BE’s e-mail newsletter (May 14th) reporting about the SRAM ‘Urban Days’ event in Schweinfurt, the header BMW: ‘Bike Industry Has To Learn Quickly’ caught my attention (click here for that story) I may have misunderstood the details of the message by Mr. Augustin E-Mobility manager at BMW, ...
BLOG: Pioneering in the East
I must admit – it was a bit of a gamble. When travelling out for the China Animal Husbandry Expo I was not sure what to expect. On the Web, there was hardly any English information to be found on the show. Would it be worth the while? Most information I had received on the annual CAHE show was circu...
Advocacy Centre Stage at "Taipei"
The Taipei International Cycle Show has put bicycle advocacy centre stage, with proof that cycling can grow the industry. If we want 35 million more cyclists by 2020, then industry and advocacy must act united. And we must act today. I delivered a keynote address at Taipei Cycle Show during the pres...
More Money
More money than ever before is going around in the bike sector. Our cover story of the Bike Europe March 2013 issue is just one example of what is going on. Here we report that Accell Group got 300 million euro from a group of banks to refinance itself and to have ample funds available for the take-...
Campylobacter infections in man – is it a pig problem?
The transmission of campylobacter, the commonest cause of gastrointestinal bacterial infections in humans is commonly blamed on meat contamination. Is it spread via pig meat to man? The good news is – it is not. If it is not, then why does the pig industry constantly get battered about the transmiss...
How to Prevent Recalls of Li-Ion Batteries?
HONGKONG – Reports on safety issues in the field require a recall of the whole batch. Look what happened with Dutch Gazelle as they had to issue a recall of thousands of batteries in our report last March 26. This is a not only a costly and complex operation, but also hurts the image of the e-bike m...
Comparison of PRRS effect on performance in US and Denmark
It is uncommon for two pieces of valuable information to come out at more or less at the same time, so one is bound to make a comparison. The data has not been collected in the same way but appears to be robust. So what are the differences between US PRRS and EU PRRS? A paper by Kristensen and Vinth...
BLOG: Pigs at the spa
Pigs can do unexpected things – I get that, but showing up prominently at a spa is something I had never thought of. Yet they did, only days prior to VIV Asia 2013 in Thailand – in one of those rare juxtapositions you can only find in Asia. The spa is located in the Saraburi province countryside, no...
Creating a Bigger Cycling Market
How to create a bigger market for the global cycling industry? What is required to do this is a systems approach to cycling similar to what helped revolutionize the biomedical industry in the last 20 years. A systems approach to cycling means putting together rather than taking apart, integration ra...
We Try Harder
We try harder to be the best trade journal in the bike business. That’s why you see here a completely overhauled Bike Europe. We not only have restyled the magazine but have also focused on bringing our editorial content to a higher level. For example by having more on the financial issues of the wo...
