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| Company type | Private company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Bicycles |
| Founded | 2008 |
| Founder | Victor Major |
| Headquarters | Kaohsiung, Taiwan |
Key people | Victor Major, CEO |
| Products | Bicycles and related components |
| Website | www.velocite-bikes.com |
Velocite Bikes is a Taiwanese manufacturer of racing bicycle, mountain bike frames, bicycle wheels and other bicycle components. Notable collaboration partners include the National Cheng Kung University, National Center for High-Performance Computing,[1] Oxeon[2] and Acer Inc.[3][4][5] Velocite specializes in carbon fiber composite products, but also manufactures bicycle frames and components using aluminium alloys. Its core bicycle frame models include the road bike frames "Magnus", "Geos", "Selene" and mountain bike frames "Flux", and "Flux Alloy". The firm is also one of the few manufacturers of full carbon road tubeless wheels, the "Velocite RT50".[6] The firm have been sponsoring the UK based Matrix Fitness Racing Academy women's cycling team since 2012.[7][8]
- ^ "Velocite plan to "revolutionize aero bicycle design"". Road.cc. Retrieved 13 October 2013.
- ^ "Velocite signs carbon R&D deal with Oxeon". BikeBiz.
- ^ "Acer partners with Taiwanese firm for bike manufacturing". Focus Taiwan. 2012-09-30. Retrieved 15 October 2013.
- ^ "Taiwan Foreign Community National Local Foreign Affairs China-Taiwan Relations Business Arts & Leisure Analysis Acer partners with local firm for bike manufacturing". The China Post. The China Post. Retrieved 15 October 2013.
- ^ "Deploying General Purpose GPUs in a Manufacturing Environment: Software and CFD Development in Bicycle Manufacturing (Presented by Acer Inc.)". GPU Technology Conference. Retrieved 13 October 2013.
- ^ "Velocite RT50 tubeless carbon wheelset". Road.cc. Retrieved 13 October 2013.
- ^ "Stefan Wyman: The costs and benefits of sponsoring a women's team". Podium Cafe.
- ^ Sutton, Mark. "Matrix Fitness, Velocite and Vulpine get behind women's cycling". BikeBiz. Retrieved 16 November 2013.