General impressions:

I was originally pretty excited about the idea of a place called Recycle Bicycle–the concept of reusing, recycling, or repurposing anything makes me pretty happy. If a shop could be environmentally friendly, that was a good thing. But as it turns out, a shop that attempts to recycle isn’t quite as glorious as it sounds.

The idea behind the shop is that they buy used frames and then build them up with new or used parts (including gears, brakes, shifters, wheels, etc.). This is fine for some of the bikes. For example, there was a great old Schwinn townie style bike, in classic blue. It’s not a big deal for that bike to have used parts, and the shop was asking $249 for the bike. All things considered, it’s not a bad deal. Cost-wise, it was probably better than trying to buy a frame elswhere and build it yourself, especially if you consider the time and energy you’d have to put into finding parts.

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Later in November, at the Taichung Bike Week 2011 which will take place from November 29 to December 2, the new e-shift system will undoubtedly be part of the presentation of Campagnolo. On November 7 Campagnolo is launching its electronic shifting system to the World Tour professional teams and press in Sicily. The renowned Italian parts maker is presenting its line-up for MY 2013 at the Tempus Hotel in Taichung. Here Shimano presented its Ultegra Di2 e-shifting system. Two after weeks the launch the Italian component maker will start delivering the complete groupsets to the professional road racing teams to be used at their December trainings camps.

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