We recently took a first look at the new Look 675, but couldn’t resist grabbing a pic of this special edition Mondrian-inspired model - Warren Rossiter / Future Publishing
Fat bikes and disc road bikes ruled the show, and this aluminium Sundeal fatty looked a pretty decent budget option - Warren Rossiter / Future Publishing
Jones continue to plug away with its unique titanium creations, as this long haul off-road 29er shows - Warren Rossiter / Future Publishing
E-Bikes don’t come much smaller or stranger than this Nanoo Power - Warren Rossiter / Future Publishing
This Duke 1 is very much ‘inspired’ by the Danish designed and built Gloustershire (Dursley) Pedersen - Warren Rossiter / Future Publishing
It’s the one accessory we never thought we’d need on a folding bike - a basketball net - Warren Rossiter / Future Publishing
The Woho bikes Emperor features a 24k gold finish over its triple-butted 4130 frame - Warren Rossiter / Future Publishing
Woho also had this track-derived fixie on show. We're not sure calling it the BreakBrake was the best idea - Warren Rossiter / Future Publishing
Strida’s A-frame folder has been around for a while, so the latest range-topping update adds disc brakes, carbon tri-spoke wheels, a lightweight carbon saddle and a carbon mainframe to this belt-driven singlespeed creation - Warren Rossiter / Future Publishing
The long wheelbase XtraCYCLE can be adapted for plenty of load carrying applications, from this two-child seater... - Warren Rossiter / Future Publishing
Ceepo’s Venom tri bike strangely fills its graphics with measurements of the bike - great for the data obsessed, we guess - Warren Rossiter / Future Publishing
The great-looking Wilier Twin Blade TT bike looks the business in Team Colombia colours - Warren Rossiter / Future Publishing
Taiwanese brand JoyMove showed off this good looking disc road bike. Its rear-end takes plenty of inspiration from BMC’s GF01 disc - Warren Rossiter / Future Publishing
Simple Bike's retro fat 29er is one pretty machine - singlespeed and a single rear coaster brake makes it very simple indeed - Warren Rossiter / Future Publishing
Wheeler showed a new full-sus e-bike with a central mounted battery and a large Bion-X rear wheel-mounted motor - Warren Rossiter / Future Publishing
Toys had this great toddlers' push-along in Racing carbon finish for boys… - Warren Rossiter / Future Publishing
This toddlers' trike switches from push-along to pedalled quickly and also folds up for easy storage - Warren Rossiter / Future Publishing
The balance bike quickly flip-folds for easy storage - Warren Rossiter / Future Publishing
Here's the balance bike folded - Warren Rossiter / Future Publishing
Somebody’s licensing department needs to have a word… - Warren Rossiter / Future Publishing
Swoopy ti fat bike, just waiting for your branding… - Warren Rossiter / Future Publishing
Van Nicholas’s high-polish titanium Astraeus is a damn good-looking bike - Warren Rossiter / Future Publishing
Haibikes XDuro RX offers 120mm of travel to its 650b chassis. It uses Bosch’s system for electric assistance - Warren Rossiter / Future Publishing
This 650b Taokas Lycan trail bike comes with full Deore, RaceFace 275AM wheels, an X-Fusion Sweep RL2 fork and a RockShox Monarch Plus RC3 rear shock. A quick conversion from the Taiwan new dollar price meant this would sell for around a grand - looks like decent value to us - Warren Rossiter / Future Publishing
Neil Pryde's new sportive bike, the Zephyr, is a good-looking machine - Warren Rossiter / Future Publishing
How about an alloy lugged African hardwood tubed frameset? - Warren Rossiter / Future Publishing
Hasus could offer pretty much any style of shoe with SPD compatibility - Warren Rossiter / Future Publishing
Polygon’s DHX bike, as ridden by Australia’s Mick Hannah at Crankworx - Warren Rossiter / Future Publishing
MitCycles' cargo bike has a reverse drivetrain and rear wheel steering - Warren Rossiter / Future Publishing
MCC’s disc road bike - Warren Rossiter / Future Publishing
A 29in unicycle is strange enough, but this one has a V brake too! - Warren Rossiter / Future Publishing
Taroka Bikes' mash-up of fat bike and e-bike actually makes a strange sort of sense - Warren Rossiter / Future Publishing
Taroka’s CLA-700 looks like its straight out of the 80s - Warren Rossiter / Future Publishing
DPX Systems micro-minibike is here ‘enhanced’ by a bolt on e-bike kit that gains its power from a portable drill! Quite possibly the maddest thing we saw all week (they also proudly displayed the US Patent they’d gained for the design) - Warren Rossiter / Future Publishing
Miche’s latest 11-speed cassettes are beautifully machined and hard anodised = we can’t see the cool graphics lasting to long though - Warren Rossiter / Future Publishing
Miche also showed a good looking set of disc compatible deep carbon clinchers - Warren Rossiter / Future Publishing
Full size adult trike with no obvious means of propulsion and only a front brake - Warren Rossiter / Future Publishing
Here’s a round up of bikes and other cycling products from the Taipei Cycle Show. Some we love, some we hate and, in the cases of quite a few of them, it's pretty hard to comprehend how they even got made…
Check out the gallery for shots of the good, the bad, and the downright ugly offerings from the world of road cycling and mountain biking.
Warren is our senior technical editor for road and gravel. With 27 years of experience, he’s been testing bikes since before BikeRadar and the internet existed!
With an encyclopedic knowledge of bikes and what some would consider an excessive bike collection, Warren has been the mastermind behind our road Bike of the Year tests for over a decade. He has penned more than 2,750 bike tests.
His words have been published in Cycling Plus, Bikeradar, Mountain Biking UK, What Mountain Bike, Urban Cyclist, Procycling, Cycling News, Total Bike, Total Mountain Bike, T3 and a whole host of other publications. You’ll also find Warren as a regular on the BikeRadar Podcast and our YouTube channel.
He’s covered all the 21st-century innovations in cycling and ridden in Europe, Asia, Australasia, America and Africa. He’s been a judge for the Eurobike awards and judged handmade bikes at Bespoked.
Height: 6’2”/188cm
Bike size:58cm/L/XL
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