EUROBIKE: E-bikes are Stampede on the annual sales of battery operated bicycle bike market has big issue on which all the top brands quadrupled EUROBIKE in Friedrichshafen exhibition space for E-bike manufacturers are twice as large. Are the E-bikes a big hit in the bicycle market crisis, what crisis? Manufacturer of bicycles with electric auxiliary drive, in the jargon called E-bikes and Pedelecs, have currently other worries, as a low order intake. On the contrary: who asked E-bike suppliers about their problems, gets complaints about currently rather low production capacity to hear and that the drive components can be managed does not quickly enough cause. E-bikes are a big hit in the bicycle market. A success that is compared with the legendary ascent of the mountain bikes nearly two decades ago. And also at the EUROBIKE, the world’s largest and most important trade fair for the bicycle market, the E-bike segment increasingly in the focus moves.

The International bicycle trade fair will take place from 2 to 5 September 2009 on the fair in Friedrichshafen: the euro bike team is confident to be able to crack the 1,000 brands among the exhibitors beginning September 2009. E-bikes have big show the E-bike is 2009 at the EUROBIKE an even bigger appearance: in the Zeppelin Hall and the new open-air East can trade visitors on various test tracks test-drive new models. The exhibition space for the E-bike industry is a total twice as big as in previous years. Vehicles from more than 50 top brands are present at the EUROBIKE, all leading manufacturers of E-bikes are in Friedrichshafen,\”project manager Stefan Reisinger notes. Strong sales is hot\”the topic of E-bikes, brings Siegfried Neuberger, Managing Director of the German motorcycle industry association (ZIV), the mood in the market to the point. The development of the E-bike market took place in recent years, with dizzying speed: between 2005 and 2008, annual sales has been in Germany smooth quadrupled last 100,000 units.