Focus: Taichung as a trendsetter for the bike industry?
There is hardly any bike to be found without a component produced in Taiwan. Over the past 50 years, the
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Trade Opinions
Retail training: The battle between targets and what customers need
With retail footfall down, the pressure is on for in-store sales teams. Retail training exec Jake Wiid discusses targets vs
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Market Research: Belt Drives – are they a good thing for the bike industry?
If belt drives truly are ‘fit and forget’ then are they bad news for independent bike shops? Duncan Moore investigates… Belt
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Shift Up Podcast: Bikes for Climate
This is episode is part of the Shift Up podcast micro-series, Bridging the Gap to achieve gender balance in cycling, sponsored by Quality Bicycle
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OPINION: Using digital technology and 3D printing to build bikes & parts
Could 3D printing truly offer an option for manufacturing sources in the bicycle industry? With the likes of Arevo ‘ushering
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ANALYSIS: Bicycle saddle science with saddle design veterans Piet Vandervelde & Sarah Bosch
There’s a lot of noise around the science of saddle fit, indeed prior columns in CI.N have sparked deep debate on what
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Market Research: Bosch, Shimano & Bafang on electric bikes
Love them or loathe them, there is no ignoring e-Bikes. Duncan Moore speaks to some of the market’s major brands on the
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Dr. Rachel Aldred: How disabled people are left out of UK transport strategy
We’re sadly used to seeing cycling left out of transport strategy, but with slow progress being made in some UK
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HKT Podcast: Shop Talk returns
Shop Talk returns to the HKT Podcast and this time with a twist. Hook It Products brings together four independent
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Bearing the brunt: sealed cartridge bearings
By Julian Thrasher, ATG Training: A subject we cover on the Cytech Technical Two course is the removal and installation of
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Opinion: 10 bike fit myths
Persistent bike fit myths are repeated at all levels of the cycling industry, from shop staff to coaches, to bike
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