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.... £35, sealskinz.com Brompton T Line folding bicycle Brompton’s lightest folding bike is an engineering marvel – it is astonishingly lightweight....
...The high-grade carbon delivers exceptional stiffness — good for those intending on putting high power through the pedals — and the bike is equipped with the brand’s own Black Inc components in the form of...
...At the end of 2021 — just before the listed bicycle and component makers began to lose their buoyancy — the EU voted to allow member states to cut VAT on sales, rentals and repairs of bicycles from 15 per...
...Peloton is fortunate that it has a software component that benefits from economies of scale. Peloton will not soon revisit its peak market capitalisation of near $50bn....
...Then there’s Specialized’s Turbo Tero (from £2,900), a newer version of the mountain e-bike I rode in the Alps....
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...For Shimano, despite rising income from bicycle components, strains are clearly showing, said Morten Paulsen, an analyst covering Japanese industrials at CLSA in Tokyo....
...Far fewer components were needed for bikes than for cars, he noted, but a single component could still be indispensable....
...As the business enters its second century, one key to continued success will be electric bikes, an area that accounted for about 10 per cent of Shimano’s bicycle components segment last year....
...Mr O'Sullivan said he hoped to source more bicycle components from Vietnam as domestic expertise rises....
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...Chinese products targeted also range from furniture and luggage, to inflatable vessels, bicycle parts and burglar alarms....
...“It could enable, for example, US bicycle manufacturers, which tend to manufacture in cheap-labour zones, to begin to bring back local production.”...
...For any robot-driven car, one of the most important components of the journey is not just what it sees but what it knows beforehand about the area it is travelling through....
...China’s latest ride-sharing boom may well saddle the region with excess bicycle production capacity. Email the Lex team at lex@ft.com...
...“The service of connecting passengers and drivers with one another by means of the smartphone application is a secondary component” compared with taking passengers to their destination, according to the...
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...A few “hidden treasures” such as Shimano, which has three-quarters of the global market for bicycle brakes and gears, are known abroad....
...In recent years Kia, which started out in 1944 making bicycle tubing, has overhauled its design while improving its product quality productivity and margins....
...It differs from other wearable devices by providing the basic components that could be fitted into a wristband, or other items of clothing such as shoes, a necklace or a hair band....
...But its biggest companies are mainly thin-margin component or contract manufacturers, which rely on others to sell to the final consumer....
...MAT, meanwhile, worked with Specialized, the US manufacturer, to create the ultralight Venge racing bicycle that is used in competition by Mark Cavendish, the British professional....
...Giant, the Taiwanese bicycle maker, believes the impact from the move inland on the coastal labour market is decreasing....
...Ebike specialists have not yet begun to squeeze out small competitors on price, largely because almost all brands source their electrical components from the same few suppliers, chiefly Shimano of Japan...
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