Johnson Chen, Yoan's general manager, says that Taiwan bike makers 'strategy was long focused on high-volume, low-priced bikes, but faced with price-slashing, upstart competitors from China and Southeast Asia, Taiwan's competitive advantages are slipping away. The reason that Yoan wanted to work with Chang Sheng-kai was "mostly that we saw it as an opportunity to transform our factory into a producer of high-end bikes."
侑圓負責人陳倉稟說，台灣單車廠長期以來的策略都擺在高產能、低單價的車種上，但近年來面對中國大陸與東南亞的削價競爭，台灣工廠的優勢已逐漸不再，侑圓願意和張勝凱合作製造 CSK 單車，「主要也是為了讓自己工廠有改做高檔車的轉型機會。」