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WTO
Negotiations Open Possibility of Bicycles Classed as
Environmental Goods
MAARSSEN,
Netherlands - Current efforts to designate bikes as
“environmentally preferable products” free of tariffs
and other trade barriers have
gone largely unnoticed by the international bicycling
community.
Organizations
promoting bicycle use at the international level may
have a new line - through the liberalization of trade in
bicycles, bicycle parts and components, and bicycle
accessories that could result from the World Trade
Organization's (WTO) current negotiations on
environmental goods and services. >>>
SRAM
Opens New Carbon Factory  TAICHUNG, Taiwan - SRAM has built a
new factory for carbon parts and components that is next
to the existing Truvativ factory in Taiwan. SRAM is
using carbon in products of all four brands (SRAM, Rock
Shox, Truvativ, Avid) and is currently highly dependable
on suppliers. There are just a
few hi-end carbon parts manufactures in Taiwan and
China; the factory that works for Sram is working for a
number of brands and is always overbooked, non-flexible
and has long delivery times.
>>>
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Containers
Full of Bikes Lost at Sea
GULF of OMAN, Oman - HNLMS
De Zeven Provincien (F 802), a Dutch destroyer and the
command ship of Combined Task Force 150, came to the aid
of a vessel in distress and rescued 27 people off the
coast of Yemen March 21 while conducting maritime
security operations (MSO) in support of Operation
Enduring Freedom in the area. The report has
far-stretching consequences for our business. Of the
5500 containers aboard, some 2,249 containers were
‘discharged’ or in plain English, went overboard. In a
large number of those containers are bicycles and
accessories. >>>
McDonald’s
Announces Burgers on Bikes
NEW DELHI, India – McDonald’s
India (North) has announced a new delivery system –
‘McDelivery on Bicycles’, an initiative restricted to
the old part of the Delhi. McDonald’s has deployed five
bicycles, to be ridden by a team of delivery squad
members of the company. >>>
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XTR brakes
excel in Choice, Technology and Design
NUNSPEET,
Netherlands - The new Shimano XTR group features completely
redesigned hydraulic disc brakes with a wide variety of
rotors, compact and lightweight Dual Control Levers and a
separate hydraulic disc brake lever. Furthermore, V-BRAKES
with matching Dual Control Levers and separate brake levers
will be available as well.
New Secretary
General for European Cyclists’ Federation (ECF)
BRUSSELS, Belgium - The
European Cyclists Federation ECF appointed Dr. Bernhard Ensink
as its new Secretary General in Brussels. The ECF is the
umbrella organisation of the national cyclists’ unions in
Europe and is joined by a dozen associated members from other
continents. Its role is to represent and support the member
organisations politically, advantage their development and to
co-ordinate concerted activities and campaigns. Dutchman
Bernhard Ensink is no freshman in the European cycling world:
He gained national and international renown through the seven
years of successful work as director of the Dutch bicycle
federation
‘Fietsersbond’.
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