This october at Roc d'Azur, carbon-composite specialist Workshape unveiled a bicycle brand: Obscur. The newly established French company worked for four years on its first bike, which aims to drastically improve the e-MTB riding experience.
With the acquisition of Sparta on October 15th, Tenways added an iconic Dutch bicycle brand to its portfolio. The Dutch brand founded by a Chinese-European team bought Sparta's assets and trademarks with an ambitious goal: to bring the bicycle brand back to the forefront of its home market.
Berlin-based e-bike brand Lemmo sells its Zero folding e-bike in China through carmakers rather than bicycle retail. Since a partnership with Nio began in 2025, the Zero has received tens of thousands of orders through the carmaker's Nio Life store.
French sporting goods retailer Decathlon opened a EUR 15 million flagship store in Oberhausen, its 117th in Germany, on 16 October 2026. The 4,500 square metre store houses the second German shop-in-shop of Decathlon's road and gravel brand Van Rysel, plus one for e-bike refurbisher Rebike Mobility.
Scandinavian micromobility operator Voi Technology AB reported net revenue of EUR 88.2 million for the third quarter of 2026, up 53% year-on-year. Riders took 53.2 million rides on its shared e-scooters and e-bikes, compared with 37.4 million a year earlier.
US health data company Truveta recorded 10.1 e-bike-related hospital emergency visits per 100,000 emergency patients in January-August 2026, up from 1.2 in the same period of 2023. That is an increase of 760.2%. The rate for conventional bicycles rose 7.9%, from 59.4 to 64.1.
