The Tapei Cycle Show isn’t Interbike. It wasn’t designed for dealers (and the press) to ogle next-year’s new products a little early and place orders for their shops. Even though most bike shop owners will received tons of invitation cards, and believe or not, those cards are usually distributed to the consumers. The exhibition is for major and minor bike manufacturers to purchase components and find good OEM factories. Therefore, biz meetings are shrunk in the short 4-day show. I myself was lucky to get an VIP invitation to the exhibition.
The usual criticism of Taipei Show is its late timing, but things still go well due to the fact that now everybody agrees that Taipei Cycle has changed into show a P&A manufacturers and distributers. As for those aftermarket or trading purposes, a mid-March show seems to be appropriate. At the same time, it would “probably” attract more people to see Tour de Taiwan even though La primavera might be TEN times better worth to see. After the show, the official host held an press conference to claim the show was held perfectly and very successful. Usually put much emphasis on the scale of it - During the first three days of the show, 4,562 overseas visitors came to the Nangang venue as well as about 22,000 domestic visitors. I don’t buy that. The software of Nangang Exhibition hall still should be improved and has a large gap to the real international ones. The parking lots are not enough, and the foods are super expensive and extraordinary unsavory. Unfortunately, you have to get used to it. You have to spend like more than 30 mins to get a normal hamburger or lunch box in the convenient store, or you have to wait for a seat in an restaurant located in the 1st floor. Come on, that’s an “International” Exhibition hall, but the only thing that international enough is the price level of it. - Same price level in Paris or Roma, very funny.
