It's amazing to think that today more than three hundred million bicycles in China. Far more than its popularity in the 1940s, when there was only about half a million bikes in the whole country.
The special feature is that the Chinese bicycle industry for Internet searches, seems in the same way that the British bicycle industry sees have begun today. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the bicycles for salein China were of high quality and imported from England, Germany and the United States, with British bike manufacturers show their machines in China. The first set up production plants from the largest Chinese importers were driven out of all imported components, and in very small amounts compared to the numbers of bicycles and sold in Europe and America.
Today we have gone circle. Where the UK and Europe, all by the Chinese market, China now produces supplyBy an incredible 64 million bicycles a year. Surprisingly, however, their export share some signs of decline. The largest manufacturer of bicycles is Taiwan. Britain Where once the supplier of quality bicycles in China, it imports meet again in Europe, high quality, with prices. Could be passed in the year was far from always imports of low quality and price premiums for British manufactured products considered to be expected. While cheap bicyclesbelow £ 100 can buy online or in the High Street are set of shops, most high street bike shop prices are far above this. A search for the last two independent and High Street chain bicycle trade show bikes between GBP 400 and GBP decrease of 1,000, almost all of whom are from Taiwan or America.
And what about the humble British bicycle manufacturers? There they do? British producer prices declined from the previous year 325,000Units in 2003 to about 80,000 units in 2007. Compare this with the import of around 3.5 million, and we get a strong contrast to the true British production. Where they exist, they seem to be, in general, made-to-order and appear at the specialist markets, for example, Sports, Special Needs, industrial hard work cycles - for supplies, etc. - or the high-end , edited by hand, traditional tourists.
What surprise me if the price was searching theapparent lack of knowledge about what their holdings were British. The majority opinion was - probably rightly - that all stock has been introduced, or when started from some British origin, then assembled just in Britain from imported components - like the China Market at the turn of the twentieth century.
Once again, in Britain we find fluctuating fuel prices, high unemployment, a government that tries to promote a bicycle-to-work-ethic to help reduceCarbon emissions, and we have some employers actively support their employees with financial rewards for leaving their cars at home. So why can not we also encourage greater bicycle production back into the country before it is too late?
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