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Welcome to this special edition of the Latz Report newsletter! In my “final” Latz Report Newsletter just before Christmas 2024 I gave myself some “politicians’ wriggle room” in saying that I may publish an occasional on-off newsletter. For 2025 my plan is to publish a grand total of two newsletters: the one you’re reading now that focuses upon the recent …
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Taipei, Taiwan. Each year members of the bicycle industry from around the world gather for the annual Taipei Cycle exhibition. It’s a big show! By the numbers, visitors saw 980 exhibiting companies filling about 60,000 square metres of space across three huge exhibit halls. Taipei Cycle doesn’t just showcase Taiwanese manufacturers. There are dozens of international exhibitors from around the …
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Taipei, Taiwan. It felt like attendance numbers overall were down slightly at this year’s Taipei Cycle. In previous years, the show’s organisers were always prompt in publishing detailed attendance data. This year, despite multiple searches, I can’t see any such announcement, and other international cycling trade media have also reported not having seen attendance data.One media report suggested a total …
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Taichung District, Taiwan. Taiwan is an island that lies just 180 kilometres off the coast of mainland China. The entire island is barely more than half the size of our smallest state, Tasmania. Two thirds of Taiwan is covered by extremely rugged mountains, ranging up to almost 4,000 metres high. That’s great for providing some epic mountain biking trails, but …
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Taipei, Taiwan. Back when I first began attending Taipei Cycle in the 1990’s, everywhere you looked, both inside the show, that was then held at the World Trade Centre building, and out on the streets, you’d see examples of “Chinglish”. Clearly, it’s not easy translating your message into a foreign language. Imagine if we tried to write anything correctly in …
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