James Moore, owner of Moore’s Bike Shop in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, is the new president of the board of the National Bicycle Dealers Association. He replaces Jerry Hiniker, co-owner of Superior North Outdoor Center in Grand Marais, ...
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Al Fritz, one of the legends of the U.S. bicycle industry, died Tuesday in Chicago at 88. Fritz's long career at Schwinn was most notable for his invention of the iconic Sting-Ray 20-inch muscle bike in the early 1960s. Schwinn sold ...
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Al Fritz, one of the legends of the U.S. bicycle industry, died Tuesday in Chicago. Fritz's long career at Schwinn was most notable for his invention of the iconic Sting-Ray 20-inch muscle bike in the early 1960s. Schwinn sold millions of ...
Tags: Schwinn Sting, bicycle industry, bicycle
Bicycle Retailer & Industry News editors and sponsors roll out Tuesday morning on a three-day tour of bicycle stores in Chicago. The BRAIN Dealer Tour will visit 13 stores by bike this week, sampling the growing infrastructure for bikes ...
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There's a technology race going on in the bicycle industry, and it's leaving retailers in a scramble to keep up. Frame and component makers have introduced a slew of new axle, bottom bracket and fork interfaces in the past few years as they ...
Tags: Transportation, bike
The Gluskin Townley Group, publisher of the American Bicyclist Study, has hired industry veteran Al Budris to act as a sales rep for the study. "Al has been in the bicycle industry for 33 years and has literally spent his entire life ...
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel will attend opening day of the Eurobike trade show this year, Wednesday, August 28. Merkel will take about two hours to officially open Eurobike and then tour the show. “We are very pleased that the ...
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Gary Cook, co-founder along with Craig Cook of Cook Bros. Racing, has died at age 74. The brothers were inducted into the BMX Hall of Fame and the Mountain Bike Hall Hall of Fame for their pioneering efforts in designing and manufacturing ...
Tags: Mountain Bike, bike, Transportation
1. 2012 Chinese Bicycle Export Situation HS Code Corresponds to the Product Name Description In the first nine months of 2012, six months of bicycles (including delivery tricycles) exports year-on-year growth, March gets the highest ...
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Divine Cycling Group, the new investment group that recently purchased Mad Fiber, has hired industry veterans Jasen Thorpe and Brett Lindstrom. DCG aims to acquire other companies in the bicycle industry. Thorpe joined DCG’s ...
Editor's note: The following article appeared in the March 1 issue of Bicycle Retailer & Industry News and is part of our series of articles on succession in the bike industry. When Peter Enright agreed to friend Spence Wolf’s ...
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The bicycle industry may not be as sexy as social media or biotechnology, but Patrick Keating believes it offers plenty of opportunity for investors. Keating, an American financier who lives in France, founded what he hopes will be the ...
Tags: bicycle industry, bicycle, cycling industry
Leisure Trends Group is hosting a webinar for NBDA members Wednesday to provide analytics and insights gained from ongoing tracking of monthly point of sales data from independent bicycle dealers. The one-hour webinar is being presented by ...
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Two and a half years ago Brian Ballard bought his first Pedego electric bike. He and life partner Elizabeth Black have enjoyed owning and riding their bikes so much that the couple invested in opening a Pedego e-bike store along Pacific ...
Belgian bike manufacturer Ridley Bikes has hired Richard Wittenberg as vice president of international operations. Wittenberg, who has worked at Cannondale, Asahi, Seattle Bike Supply, Pacific and elsewhere in the bike industry, will split ...
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