2020 · CTi“Mr. Player”: the one-second folding rocket
In 2020, Paul Hsu brought the METRO folding e-bike onto Jacky Wu’s stage — the on-screen caption read “Introducing a crowdfunded product: a one-second folding electric bike”.
Brand story
A designer who decided to build his own bikes
In 2014, designer Paul Hsu founded SLIDER in Taipei. The first bike was a step-through folding bike you could stand on and glide like a skateboard — TV stations called it the “skateboard bike” and called him a “dream fanatic”. Ten years later, the brand has sold its way from Taipei all the way to Europe.
A designer first, a bike maker second
Paul Hsu trained as a designer: he won first prize at the A+ Industrial Design Award in 2012 and a Platinum A′ Design Award in Italy in 2013. In 2014 he founded HAOTING TECHNOLOGY and launched the first SLIDER — combining the ride feel of a skateboard with the structure of a folding bike in one machine that sways from side to side without tipping over.
That bike put the newly founded brand on television again and again: CTi’s “Are You a College Student Yet?”, TVBS’s “The World Is Turning”, SET and EBC. No number of design awards compares with a bike that reporters are willing to ride on camera.
- 2012 | A+ Industrial Design Award, first prize
- 2013 | A′ Design Award, Italy — Platinum
- 2014 | HAOTING TECHNOLOGY founded; the SLIDER brand is born
- 2015 | First pop-up store opens
One cargo bike, a hundred small business owners
In 2016, SLIDER’s PickUP Sliders cargo bike won Design of the Year. It was built to carry cargo, but entrepreneurs converted it into mobile coffee stands and mobile food carts — one wooden box on the front, and you had a shop.
In 2018, SET’s “LIVE” ran a feature: over a hundred people had become their own bosses with this bike, on a start-up cost of NT$40,000. It was the first time the brand realised a bike could change not just someone’s commute, but their livelihood.
- 2016 | PickUP Sliders cargo bike — our first electric assist
- 2017 | DAILY electric bike — the first-generation mass-production e-assist bike
- 2018 | SET feature: a hundred micro-businesses
- 2021 | Food-cart chain brand founded
Three clocks on the wall
Three clocks hang on the wall of the Tucheng head office: Bulgaria, Taipei and Los Angeles. The Shanghai factory was established in 2019, the European factory in Bulgaria was completed in 2022, and our own factory in Tucheng, New Taipei, opened in 2023 — the same year we won the German Red Dot Design Award.
In 2024, the brand’s tenth anniversary, the full range was complete. Then came the step nobody saw coming — SLIDER won an official Star Wars licence, and limited-edition Darth Vader and Stormtrooper electric bikes set out from Taiwan to the whole world.
- 2019 | Shanghai factory established
- 2022 | European factory in Bulgaria completed
- 2023 | Tucheng factory opens + German Red Dot Design Award
- 2024 | The brand’s tenth anniversary
- 2026 model year | Global Star Wars licensed editions
Media presence
SLIDER through the eyes of TV and the media
3+
TV programme interviews
15+
TV news reports
700+
Online media reports
150+
Award coverage
Shows and news
The footage is still there
These are the TV stations’ original videos — click to watch.
2020 · CTi2016 · TVBS“The World Is Turning”: Taiwan’s skateboard bike in the spotlight
“Sways from side to side, never tips over” — the skateboard bike SLIDER started with, introduced in full to the audience of an international-affairs programme.
SET FinanceSET exclusive: the pride of Taiwan builds a two-in-one bike
“No worries in a skirt! A folding bike and skateboard bike in one, easy on the road” — Paul Hsu explains why the internal gear system never drops its chain.
2018 · SET News“LIVE”: PickUP bikes are hot
“Be your own boss for NT$40,000” — a full feature on the hundred-plus people starting micro-businesses on SLIDER PickUP bikes.
2015 · CTi“Are You a College Student Yet?”: the dream fanatics have arrived
A TV appearance from our early start-up days — the theme of that episode was “Dream Fanatics”.
EBC Super TV“Private Talk, Honestly”
A guest spot on an EBC Super TV talk show hosted by Hou Chang-ming and Xia Keli.
Next chapter
The story is still being written
From a folding bike you could glide on, to a global Star Wars licence. The next chapter is one we want to write with you.
Visit a store and hear it from us in person
5F, No. 11 Songshou Road, Xinyi District, Taipei (Shin Kong Mitsukoshi A11) | The Neihu store and the Tucheng factory are by appointment.