During June 21~25, CHC had been exhibiting at Eurobike 2023 for the purpose of showing its capacities to people that gathering at the show. This is the first time for CHC to be exhibiting at the Eurobike Show with the exhibition themes of decarbonization, International Bicycle Design Competition (IBDC), handcycle, indoor cycling climber, engineering service, and testing & verification.

    Also, by co-exhibiting with Industrial Development & Investment Promotion Committee (IDIPC)of Taichung City, we hope to introduce beautiful bicycle paths in Taichung, and invite people to come for sightseeing and participate in events like Taichung Bike Week and Wheels Ride Festival.

The 25th International Bicycle Design Competition (IBDC) is open for application starting from today!
IBDC has been hosted by the Cycling & Health Tech Industry R&D Center (CHC) for more than two decades with the support and supervision by the Department of Industrial Technology, Ministry of Economic Affairs of R.O.C. (DOIT, MOEA). The purpose of IBDC is to establish a platform for creative concepts and design works. With creative and innovative ideas and designs exchanged from designers all over the world, Taiwan is hoped to be the hub of the bicycle creative design field, and can keep creating new trends in the cycling industry.
This year, the theme of competition is “Intelligence．Sustainability．Cool Lifestyle” With these three values, IBDC hopes that more bicycles can be created with intelligent technologies, sustainable considerations, and ideas that shows personal new lifestyles. The application of the 25th IBDC will be opened from 2023/06/01~2023/11/15. Application and more information of the competition can be accessed on IBDC’s official website: http://ibdc.tbnet.org.tw.

On April 20, 2023, an Expert Meeting, which is a series event of the 25th International Bicycle Design Competition (IBDC), was held to discuss about the future form and design thinking of bicycle. Experts from various background, including Taiwan Design Research Institute (research institute), Merida Industry Co., Ltd. (bicycle company), MPS Energy Inc. (battery module developer), Smiling Elements International Corporation (bicycle company), and Design Crossover Association (non-profit social group), attended and shared their point of views to the future of cycling and expectation of works that could be collected by 25th IBDC, which will start in June.

To find out more business opportunities and bring the bicycle industry in Taiwan more in line with the world, the Taiwan Bicycle Association (TBA) held a meeting to connect the bicycle companies and the government officials from Lithuania to discuss more about the cooperation opportunities at CHC on February 22, 2023. Both the chairman of TBA, Robert Wu, and the trade representative from the Lithuanian Trade Representative Office, Paulius Lukauskas, gave presentations of the introduction of themselves. Attendees of the meeting also includes the representative from the bicycle companies, including KMC, MARWI, Ideal, etc.

On February 8, 2023, the major and delegation of Saiki, Oita Prefecture, Japan come and visit CHC. Guests from Japan introduced their hometown by showing the video and flyer, while presenter from CHC gave and introduction of the bicycle industry and the overview of CHC. Moreover, the guests had a riding event and a short tour of the laboratories, which they found very interested. At the end of the visit, CHC and the guests from Japan exchanged souvenirs to show the gladness of meeting each other.

On December 22, 2022, the Inaugural Meeting of Bicycling Alliance for Sustainability (BAS) was held, declaring the establishment of the organization. At the meeting, Young Liu from Giant Group was elected by all the members as the Chairman of BAS, who will then be in charge of leading the members to achieve the organizational goals.

On November 23, 2022, several government officials from Tuvalu, Paraguay, and Saint Lucia who now participate in the Advanced Management Program (AMP) at NTHU IMBA visited CHC for the purpose of understanding more about the bicycle industry development in Taiwan, learning innovative and feasible solutions, and could bringing back the experience to their countries.