private company industry bicycles founded 2008 2008 founder victor major headquarters kaohsiung taiwan key people victor major ceo jessica major gm products bicycles and related components revenue undisclosed number of employees undisclosed slogan ride velocite feel invincible 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 victor major ceo velocite bikes receives 2015 d & i award from tony lo ceo giant bicycles in 2015 velocite released the world s first composite rims made using filament winding and launched a new oem brand venn . 9 the venn rev 35 wheels series tcc rim brake specific tubeless clincher tcd disc brake specific tubeless clincher and tuc rim brake specific tubular made with the rims manufactured by filament winding technology received a 2015 taipei cycle d & i award and a 2015 eurobike award . 10 11 12 13 14 history edit velocite bikes was founded in 2008 by the present ceo victor major . prior to starting the brand major ran and managed cycle taiwan for 2 years . cycle taiwan was a cycling community website for english speakers . 15 focussed on providing riding and equipment information for english speaking riders during the time in taiwan before cycling for sport or recreation were popular . at that time it was the only active english language cycling website in taiwan . seeing the opportunity for racing bicycle production he launched velocite bikes with four original carbon fiber bicycle frame models ; velocite helios velocite magnus velocite isoflow and velocite flux and a line of carbon fiber wheels velocite noir . recognition edit the firm is a recipient of several bicycle industry and general enterprise awards 2010 microenterprise national entrepreneurship award winner 2011 taiwan excellent enterprise quality award winner 2012 taipei cycle show d & i and if award winner 16 2012 taiwan golden pin design award winner 17 2012 ispo brandnew performance finalists 2015 taipei cycle show d & i award winner 18 2015 eurobike award winner 19 past member of world federation of sporting goods industry wfsgi 20 member of the flanders bike valley 21 references edit 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 . velocite s new venn composite rims break the mold w filament wound single strand carbon construction . bikerumor.com . venn rev 35 tcd . eurobike awards . retrieved 10 september 2015 . venn rev 35 tcc . if design . retrieved 13 march 2015 . world premiere ; automated manufactured carbon rims . bike europe . retrieved 13 march 2015 . velocite unveils filament wound carbon fibre bike rims . composites today . retrieved 13 march 2015 . velocite launches award winning filament wound full carbon rims . jec composites . retrieved 13 march 2015 . pdf . . retrieved 20 january 2014 . velocite wins if design award . bikebiz . retrieved 13 october 2013 . golden pin award winner . taipei design center us . retrieved 13 october 2013 . venn rev 35 tcc . if design . retrieved 13 march 2015 . venn rev 35 tcd . eurobike awards . retrieved 10 september 2015 . wfsgi welcomes new bicycle industry members . bike eu . retrieved 13 october 2013 . bikeville incubator at flanders bike valley attracts taiwanese investment with velocite tech co. . bike eu . retrieved 28 february 2016 . this article related to a bicycle manufacturing company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title velocite bikes & oldid 707319161 categories road cyclescycle manufacturers of taiwancycle manufacturer stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 28 february 2016 at 04 18 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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