Welcome to Velo’s Taipei Cycle Show coverage, where we share our favorite things we’ve found at the 2025 show. Bikes, components, accessories, and more: if we think it’s cool, you’ll see it. See the rest of our coverage here.
Taipei Cycle Show is a place of wonder. More than ever, you get it all: surprisingly high-end gear, lots of tooling and gear for manufacturers and bike shops, and all kinds of esoteric gear.
This latest randoms is here to give you a taste of it. Berd Spokes — the company best known for Dyneema-adjacent fiber spokes — has released an electrically assisted truing stand that claims to make anyone into a master wheel builder and truer quickly. Muc-Off brought a blow dryer to dry your bike after washing.
There’s a whole lot more besides that, but I won’t spoil the surprise. Have fun!
Berd Spokes brought the Trudi, an automated wheel truing stand that it claims cuts tensioning and truing a new wheel down to just 15 minutes per wheel. For that, it’ll cost you $6,999. (Photo: Alvin Holbrook/Velo)But wait, don’t scroll away! The user inputs the rim type (carbon or aluminum), spoke type, and number of spokes. (Photo: Alvin Holbrook/Velo)Wheels entering the system need to be tensioned to 25 kgf before the Trudi finalizes it at ~110 kgf. (Photo: Alvin Holbrook/Velo)From there, the display tells you exactly what the machine can sense as it goes along, spoke after spoke. While it can’t yet work with carbon spokes, expect wheel builders and high-output bike shops to gobble this up. (Photo: Alvin Holbrook/Velo)Santillo had to have seen Pinarello’s success with its curvey-but-angled approach and decided to one-up it. (Photo: Alvin Holbrook/Velo)This head tube area is particularly intriguing. Lots to look at here. (Photo: Alvin Holbrook/Velo)There are tens of us looking for a better way to dry off our bikes. Muc-Off brought its new It Blows! dryer. The rubber nozzle lets it get up close and personal with the frame, and it’s small enough to handle easily. (Photo: Alvin Holbrook/Velo)$150 lets you get rid of your drying cloths, though the lack of a heating element means you might need to hold on to one cloth. (Photo: Alvin Holbrook/Velo)Muc-Off also showed off its Airmach electric mini tire inflator. Its one of the smallest inflators I’ve seen, and Muc-Off says it’ll inflate three gravel tires fairly easily. (Photo: Alvin Holbrook/Velo)The inflator works to 120 PSI and it won’t judge you for doing so, either. Find one for $140. (Photo: Alvin Holbrook/Velo)But Clever Standard also loves anodization, including this array of dual Schrader adapter and Presta valve remover tool. (Photo: Alvin Holbrook/Velo)Clever Standard brought a new tire lever called the Leverage. (Photo: Alvin Holbrook/Velo)Rockbros has quickly become a brand offering not just small bells resembling Spurcycle bells, but parts, accessories, and even bicycles. This integrated tire lever and bottle cage system feels interesting. (Photo: Alvin Holbrook/Velo)You’d have to slide your bottle out of the cage, but after that, you can pull out this tire lever and go. The part that goes along the bicycle rim is actually at the bottom of the cage, but this keeps the bottle in place. (Photo: Alvin Holbrook/Velo)Made For Challenge. (Photo: Alvin Holbrook/Velo)What’s a mountain bike doing here? Well, this Scott Spark has the recently-launched SRAM 90 drivetrain, a new MECHANICAL groupset from the brand that seemingly swore off mechanical groups years ago. (Photo: Alvin Holbrook/Velo)My favorite part of the 90 system is that SRAM has committed to offering all the small parts to the derailleur — think individual pieces — to ensure the derailleur is easily repairable. Hopefully this level of repairability comes to road and gravel. (Photo: Alvin Holbrook/Velo)San Francisco-based Slug Bicycles sprung into the scene with custom titanium frames made overseas. 2025 is a year of pivoting, however, including this steel Slug gravel bike. (Photo: Alvin Holbrook/Velo)There’s little we know about this bike, but its clear that it has a SRAM UDH. That’s good! (Photo: Alvin Holbrook/Velo)It also had a 50 mm wide Maxxis Rambler installed, seemingly with space for more. (Photo: Alvin Holbrook/Velo)Ritchey brought its newest WCS Switch stem, including the 220-degree wrap system that Ritchey loves to use on its top-end stems. (Photo: Alvin Holbrook/Velo)The WCS Switch stem includes a reversible accessory mount for computers, lights, and cameras. Ritchey says it’s available now for $109.99 (Photo: Alvin Holbrook/Velo)
