TAIPEI ENGLISH The Official Show Newspaper www.BikeShowDaily.com Organized by: TAITRA March 22, 2013 日 本 語 中 文 A wary eye The other venue 6 Taiwan’s A-Team watches Asian competitors 16 See the rest of Taipei Cycle at the TWTC Mass customization Go to Hell 7 Fuji website lets cyclists design their own bikes. 18 Relaxing hot springs await at Taipei’s Hell Valley VoxPop New Products 11 Should Taipei Cycle move to July? 32 Our extensive new products coverage starts here Friday, March 22, 2013 TAIPEI 3 Today's Weather Table of Contents Today 28°C (83°F) A wary eye Long period of sunshine A-Team keeps a close eye on Asian competitor countries .................................................... 6 with clear skies. Fuji's customization experiment Taiwan cyclists can design their own bikes on Fuji website ...............................................7 Tonight 18°C (68°F) Shots from the show Very clear overnight. Our photographers catch the mood of Taipei Cycle ..................................................................8 VoxPop Would it be better to have Taipei Cycle in July? ....................................................................10 Tomorrow 27°C (84°F) A fat little business Partly cloudy with sunshine. Fat bikes make a good business for QBP ..................................................................................12 In gear Its legal disputes behind it, Microshift powers into American market ..................... 13 Contact Us Inflated hopes Tubeless tires become more mainstream ................................................................................15 Here's how to reach the key staff of the Taipei Cycle and The other venue TaiSPO Show Dailies: Take the short trip to the TWTC and see the rest of Taipei Cycle ..................................16 Advertising Go to Hell Tom Kavanagh, Publisher After a long day at the show, nothing relaxes more than a trip to Hell .......................18 [email protected] Making strides with Strida Taipei Cycle Show Daily The Sun Race-made Strida typifies the firm's 'mass customization' .............................18 Doug McClellan, Editor New Products [email protected] Our extensive New Products coverage starts here ............................................................ 32 Elegantly skewered Agogo launches elegant, minimal QR skewers ................................................................. 35 4 TAIPEI SHOW DAILY Friday, March 22, 2013 Schedule of Events Show Briefs GENERAL SHOW 2-3 p.m. INFORMATION KMC “Dr. Chain” lecture on chain Nangang expansion German brands win 9 a.m. - 6 p.m maintenance (in Chinese), 1st expected to be finished the most honors Taipei Cycle Show, Floor, Booth J118 Nangang Exhibition Hall and Taipei for 2016 Taipei Cycle at pedelec awards 2-3 p.m World Trade Center (TWTC), Hall The Taipei Cycle Show has German pedelec brands scored 1, 2nd Floor, Area H; Cycling Extreme Performance with completely filled the Nangang high at yesterday’s Pedelec Award and SPOMODE, TWTC Hall 1, 2nd Angie Marino and Mike Steidley, Exhibition Hall since the hall opened Ceremony, hosted by ExtraEnergy. Bulls Floor. 1st Floor, North Side, Nangang for the 2008 show. Show organizers Greenmover, the private label brand of have had to squeeze booths on the floor the German buyers group ZEG, led the winners with four awards. Winora won EVENTS 2-3:50 p.m and put some exhibitors across town at the Taipei World Trade Center. two awards, while Kettler and Utopia Taipei Cycle new product launch, 8:30 a.m.-5:50 p.m. Relief is on the way, however. A took one apiece. The Lithium-Ion Power Batteries 6th Floor, Outdoor Balcony, $243 million expansion of Nangang From Taiwan, Giant won a Family Symposium, 4th Floor, Room 401, Nangang is expected to be completed for the Pedelec Award with its Twist Aspiro Nangang 2016 Taipei Cycle Show, spokeswoman bike, while Fairly took the Sport Road SATURDAY, MARCH Andrea Wu said yesterday. award with its E.T. model, which it makes for the Swiss brand Stöckli. The 9 a.m.-5 p.m 23 - GENERAL SHOW She said it would enable the show to eliminate its waiting list and move E.T. is based on the Flow design, which LEV test drive, 4th Floor Cargo INFORMATION all exhibitors here from the TWTC (see Fairly owns and licenses to Stöckli. 9 a.m. - 3 p.m Ramp, Nangang related story, page 16). ExtraEnergy organizes the e-bike Public Day at Taipei Cycle Beginning with next year’s test track at the show and also conducts 10 a.m.-4 p.m Show, Nangang Exhibition Hall show, Wu said TAITRA would begin an extensive pedelec test in Germany TES E-scooter test ride, 1st Floor, and Taipei World Trade Center marketing the new hall so exhibitors every year. “Our expert panel meets twice South Side, Nangang (TWTC), Hall 1, 2nd Floor, Area H; have time to prepare. a year. They worked on the target and SPOMODE, TWTC Hall 1, 2nd According to the Taipei Times, the nine-floor expansion building, to be groups we have chosen for our testing,” 11 a.m.-noon Floor. known as Hall 2, will accommodate ExtraEnergy general manager Hannes KMC “Dr. Chain” lecture on chain 2,362 booths. Neupert said. maintenance (in Chinese), 1st EVENTS Floor, Booth J118 9-1 p.m. LEV test drive, 4th Floor Cargo 11 a.m.-noon Ramp, Nangang This afternoon’s WFSGI meeting Cycling Extreme Performance with will focus on UCI bike regulations Angie Marino and Mike Steidley, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. 1st Floor, North Side, Nangang TES E-scooter test ride, 1st Floor, The World Federation of the Sporting sticker. It caused strife among smaller south side, Nangang Goods Industry (WFSGI) will hold a manufacturers who believed they could 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m. public meeting this afternoon to update not afford the labeling fees. Taipei Cycle new product launch, 10:30-11:30 a.m. the industry on its discussions with the De Kock said the meeting would UCI regarding wheel safety requirements also address progress on new wheel 6th Floor, Outdoor Balcony, KMC Dr. Chain Lecture (Chinese), and UCI rules concerning its frame and regulations, now under discussion with KMC, KMC Booth J118 Nangang fork approval and labeling program. the UCI. The meeting is from 2-3 p.m. in room With more than 200 members, the 11:30 a.m.-3 p.m 2-3 p.m. 501 on the fifth floor. WFSGI has become a strong voice on 2013 TaiSPO & SPOMODE Fashion Taipei Cycle post-show press The WFSGI’s Robbert de Kock said the behalf of the industry with the UCI and Show, 1st Floor, Area C stage, conference, 4th Floor, Room 405, meeting would focus on simplifying the International Olympic Committee. TWTC Exhibition Hall 1 Nangang the labeling program’s complicated De Kock said the industry is making rules and regulations so they don’t stifle progress with the UCI, despite its innovation. current internal issues. There have been 2-3 p.m. Cycling’s governing body recent public calls for UCI leadership WFSGI Bicycle Group meeting, 5th implemented a program in late 2010 changes in light of widespread doping in Floor, Room 501, Nangang that requires manufacturers to gain professional cycling. preproduction approvals for frame “It can always be faster, but there was and fork concepts and to label their no progress before (under previous UCI end products with the “UCI Approved” leaders),” he said. 6 TAIPEI SHOW DAILY Friday, March 22, 2013 Fine international A-Team keeps an eye on Asian competitors dining in Taipei Taiwan leads the world in high-end bicycle manufacturing, but its top exporters are keeping a wary eye on rivals. Woolloomooloo Café competition. Grace Ruan, publisher of Wheel Giant, a Taiwan publisher of Step off the well-worn Taipei tourist path and explore trade and consumer cycling magazines, these lesser-known restaurant gems. Discover great food discussed the burgeoning bicycle at reasonable prices. And if you don’t speak Chinese, don’t manufacturing zones in Bangladesh worry — just show the address to your taxi driver. This and Cambodia. year, we featured three of the many Taipei restaurants that While these emerging countries specialize in international cuisine. Here’s our final selection — may appeal to Taiwanese producers be sure to check out Days 1 and 2 of the Taipei Show Daily for A-Team chairman Michael Tseng (left) with Robert Wu of KMC because of low labor costs and tariff- our other restaurant choices. free shipments to the EU, producers “We have had competition from Woolloomooloo takes inspiration from should be cautious, Ruan said. China in the past 10 years. There will the elegant, casual cafes of Australia, Frequent power shortages, also be competition from Southeast and its name from a harbor-side suburb corruption, labor strife, an unskilled Asia—Vietnam and Cambodia—in of Sydney. Instead of Sydney, you’ll find workforce and poor infrastructure all the next three years. Therefore, we Woolloomooloo in the Xinyi District of can interrupt production, she said. need to stay together and do the best Taipei. The EU has also threatened to we can,” Michael Tseng, chairman It’s the brainchild of Jimmy Yang, a impose import duties on Cambodian of the A-Team, told industry leaders former architect who is of Taiwanese- Homemade Pizza bikes as it did to Vietnam in 2005. yesterday. Australian heritage. Jimmy is a friendly Still, three Taiwanese companies NT$260 The A-Team includes the island’s presence in the restaurant. He is operate factories in Cambodia that are Pizza margherita, NT$420 most influential bicycle industry particularly proud of the café’s design running at capacity, primarily for the Moussaka with Greek salad on the side, companies. Tseng, who is also president and decor (which features wooden U.S. and EU markets, Ruan said. NT$38 of Merida, presided over the A-Team’s communal tables), freshly baked bread Cambodian assemblers are annual meeting yesterday at Nangang, and cakes.