Ispo Bike, held August 16-19, saw more than 6,000 trade visitors from 46 countries attending. These figures are largely stagnant from last year. The previous three years the show was held in July, and showed double-digit growth. As a result of the underwhelming performance, next year Messe München will return the show to July dates, July 25-28. Maybe visitors and exhibitors this year, as well as representatives of companies that have not yet taken part in Ispo Bike, expressed a desire for earlier dates. This year's show had a strong focus on e-mobility – e-bikes and pedelecs – with more than 250 bikes available for testing. There were 290 exhibitors making their debut in Munich. Germany, Austria, Italy, the Czech Republic and China had the highest number of visitors; the biggest increases came from China and Taiwan. On the weekend dates, more than 10,000 end consumers attended the show. Organizers say this figure was down because of the cancelation of the Go Big or Go Home dirt-jump competition, which wasn't held so there could be more of a focus on the e-bike segment.

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