THE OFFICIAL EUROBIKE NEWSPAPER HTTP://BIKESHOWDAILY.COM SHOW DAY 3 SEP. 3RD, 2011 TAKEOVER TREMORS 4 ACCELL'S INTEREST UNNERVES DERBY A GRIPPING STORY WE TAKE GLOVES BY THE HAND 18 FRAME BLAME GAME 5 MANUFACTURERS RESPOND TO UCI TEACH THEM WELL MAKE SURE PEDELEC BUYERS RETURN 28 CAMPAGNOLO CONFIDENTIAL 10 COMPANY SIGNALS PRE-GIRO ELECTRIC LAUNCH SHARE AND SHARE ALIKE BIKE SHARING LEAD TO BIKE SELLING 32 EVENT GUIDE CONTENTS WHAT'S ON TODAY FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE … ALL-DAY EVENTS 13:00 MEDIA-ONLY EVENTS Takeover Tremors EUROBIKE AWARD 2011 Price- IXS SPORTS DIVISION Accell moves anger Derby winning products presentation. Autograph session: Darren ALL DAY 04 Foyer West Berrecloth (CAN), Richie Schley Eurobike Spillover (CAN), Hans "NoWay" Rey (USA), PUBLIC APPEARANCE OF Dahon, Tern fight reaches show EUROBIKE VISION Special Andi Wittmann (GER). OLYMPIC WINNER AND 04 show on aerodynamic bicycle B3- 100/101 WORLD CHAMPION JENS Frame Blame Game construction. Foyer West FIEDLER AND MICHAEL Suppliers respond to the UCI 14:00 HÜBNER 05 STARS ON STAGE EUROBIKE FASHION SHOW Vox Pop 4-Seasons.TV in close contact with They are going to introduce their Where's the e-bike market going? the inside stars presented live on The latest colors, trends and new team ERDGAS 2012. Also at the 05 stage - each hour, on the hour. functions. booth: Max Levy, current vice Foyer East Going for a Double Foyer East world champion. Organizer: Redvil. Easton Bell has ambitious plans B5-102 06 VINER Victor del Corral (Cross 15:00 Triathlon European Champion). 12:00 to 18:00 Hide-and-Seek CORRATEC EVENT A1-408 08 De Rooij hides his e-bike's motor Special guests: Mark Claußmeyer VICTOR DEL CORRAL EUROBIKE TRAVEL TALK (CEO Team Corratec-Nutrixxion), Taiwan Treats Congress providing information Grischa Janorschke and Dirk Victor Del Corral ( the Triathlon 09 Innovations from "cycling island" about cycling tourism trends. The Müller (Team Corractec-Nutrixxion X Champ & runner-up Duathlon cycling and tourism sectors will pros). Champ) is visiting the Inverse - Ciro Charging its Batteries be discussing developments in B1-300 Sport Stand. 10 Campy sees electric launch soon symposia and workshops. A1-103 Foyer East, 1st floor, 16:00 Like Their Seat Posts? 12:00 to 13:00 You'll love Kind Shock's B&B Conference Center East EUROBIKE FASHION SHOW 15 CARLOS BETANCUR GOMEZ SCHEDULED EVENTS The latest colors, trends and new Get a Grip functions. AT MEDIA CONSULTA SPORT 18 We get a handle on latest gloves 10:00 Foyer East & ENTERTAINMENT GMBH Talking Turkey BIKE – FIT FOR FUTURE 17:00 Limar presents the Giro d'Italia Accell's Bisiklet is growing CONFERENCES Assembly works products: Limar 777 helmet, Giro 21 QUALIFICATION DIRT JUMP on headset and bottom bracket d'Italia Special Edition shades. Open Air Grounds West Maxxis Rollout (German only). B2-100 Tiremaker debuts radial tubeless Room Rome, Conference 24 18:00 13:00 to 14:00 Center East Cycling Economy IXS 10TH ANNIVERSARY AUTOGRAPH SESSION Bicycles can fix ailing economies 11:00 DOWNHILL CUP – MEET & 26 CHILL WITH BBQ Chill-Out BBQ Darren Berrecloth (CAN), Matt Teach Your Customers Well BIKE – FIT FOR FUTURE with Sound & Drinks. Hunter (CAN), Richie Schley (CAN), Ensure first pedelec won't be last CONFERENCES: 28 FG-B8/3 Hans "NoWay" Rey (USA), Andi Life Cycle Assessement of Wittmann (GER) at iXS Sports Messe Q&A 18:30 conventional and electric bicycles Division. 31 Zorell sees industry "calm down" B3-100/101 (English only). EUROBIKE PARTY Room Rome, Conference Share and Share Alike Open air grounds west, CHRISTOPH STRASSER AT Center East Bike sharing leads to bike selling Foyer West and atrium SPECIALIZED EUROPE B.V 32 EUROBIKE FASHION SHOW Pedal Pusher 20:00 Signing session with Ultra Road Garmin's power-measuring pedal Marathon World Champion & 40 The latest colors, trends and new 1ST EUROBIKE FIXED GEAR RAAM winner 2011: Christoph functions. CHAMPIONSHIP Sprint Race. Eat Like a Local Strasser. Foyer East Parking area before halls A1 Regional delicacies are close by A3-205 44 to A3 CORRATEC EVENT Photo Page 16:00 to 16:30 TREND-LOUNGE: 20 YEARS Highlights from yesterday's show Special guests: Mark Claußmeyer 46 EUROBIKE Presented by (CEO Team Corratec-Nutrixxion), CEDRIC GARCIA AT SRAM Eurobike & Fahrstil. Grischa Janorschke and Dirk Room Österreich (Austria), Cedric Garcia is coming for an Müller (Team Corractec-Nutrixxion Conference Center West autograph session to the SRAM ON THE COVER: TOUR DE FRANCE WINNER pros). CADEL EVANS CRUISES INTO EUROBIKE. booth. B1-300 © BERNHARD WROBEL A3-201 LEGAL BATTLES BETWEEN TERN, DAHON SPILL OVER TO EUROBIKE The messy and acrimonious battle between Dahon and Tern, the new bicycle brand created by the son and wife of Dahon founder David Hon, has spilled over into Eurobike. The dispute, which has dissolved family “Sorry, but I don’t speak Lithuanian. ties and fattened lawyers’ wallets, We will challenge this,” Ecclestone said. involves competing lawsuits in the “[Tern] didn’t exist when we showed United States and now in Germany. the Vector and Ios at last year’s Earlier this week, the Munich District Eurobike.” Court sided with Tern and granted two In a separate action, the Munich court preliminary injunctions against Dahon MATHIAS SEIDLER. for design patent violations. also issued a preliminary injunction that prevents Dahon from showing The first injunction required Dahon the PostPump, a seatpost with an to remove its Ios and Vector models, integrated foot pump. Dahon had TENSIONS ACCELER ATE IN including marketing materials, catalogs offered the PostPump on some of DERBY TAKEOVER CLAIMS and videos, from the show, according its 2012 models. The inventor, Philip to Tern general manager Joshua Hon. Robinson of Zorin Innovations, said Tensions escalated between Derby Cycle and the Those models were not on display at in a press release that a licensing the Dahon booth, but had been shown agreement with Dahon ended with the Accell Group yesterday, after the German bicycle at Bico, which is a new Dahon distribu- 2011 model year. maker accused its Dutch rival of plotting a hostile tor for Germany. The injunction also takeover. forced Dahon to make a last-minute Beginning with the 2012 model year, change to its fashion show yesterday. Robinson said he had entered into an exclusive licensing agreement with “We as the management board “It’s really interesting that, if you “Now we cannot even show the Vector, Mobility Holdings, a company related are assuming that the Accell compare first-half figures, we’re which last year was on stage at the to Tern. The PostPump will be available Group is planning a takeover of four times as successful as Accell Dahon booth and won an award. We on some Tern bicycles. “Legal actions the company,” the Derby board in terms of sales growth,” Seidler have prior use!” said Eddie Ecclestone, are always a last resort but this is a said in a statement yesterday. It left said yesterday. Dahon’s global marketing director. clear indication of our will to protect no doubt such an approach from our intellectual property," said Stewart Accell would be unwelcome. “It’s also interesting for us to know Ecclestone said the challenge to the Clarke, global legal manager for Dahon that weather conditions stop at “We have no interest of any Ios and Vector involved a design patent Global, the parent company of Tern. the Dutch border,” he added. He kind in any cooperation with the registered in Lithuania. ■ JB was alluding to Accell’s half-year Accell Group, however it might be results release, in which it said structured, and of whatever type it its sales had been boosted by might be,” the statement said. weather conditions yet added that turnover declined by 2 percent in The row began when Accell, which the Netherlands. snapped up 5.7 percent of Derby’s shares in April, announced earlier Under German stock market rules, this week that it had enlarged its the Accell Group would have to stake to 22 percent. issue a full offer for Derby if it owned at least 30 percent of the Hielke Sybesma, Accell’s chief company. A stake of 25 percent financial officer, firmly denied that plus one share would give it a Accell sought a takeover. blocking minority. “This was an opportunity to take a participation in a growing Sybesma insisted that Accell would company,” Sybesma said not go that far, and refused to yesterday. He added that the empathize with fraught nerves at company has no intention of Derby. forming a strategic partnership with Derby, nor would it request any “We will leave it at 22 percent,” representation on its board. he said, adding, “If it’s nervous about people who buy its shares, The big Dutch bicycle conglomer- then you have to wonder about ate said the German company’s the management’s decision to go share price was attractive because public.” it had recently declined, and a substantial Derby stake was Any takeover attempt could raise available. That apparently referred issues with German antitrust to Finatem, Derby’s former owner, authorities, because the combined which had retained a 10 percent market share of the two companies stake in the group when it filed in the German e-bike market could its initial public offering (IPO) in reach about 30 percent. February. Furthermore, an acquisition Mathias Seidler, Derby’s chief would most likely be followed by executive, noted that the German substantial restructuring and staff company is performing strongly, cuts, as the two companies have and said its IPO had provided it four manufacturing plants within a with all the resources it required to radius of 200 km.