Joe Breeze embraces the latest mountain biking trends—enduro racing and 27.5-inch wheels—while at the same time invoking the sport's roots in introducing the new Breezer Repack all-mountain rig. Likening today's enduro craze ...
Tags: Enduro Bike, bike, mountain bike
While the Spanish crank and power brand has adopted more subtle graphics for its cranksets, changes go more than skin deep. "We've got new materials and a more serious mountain bike line," said Phillip Lucas, head of Rotor's U.S. office in ...
Tags: Transportation
Cycle Group Inc. has hired Colin Esquibel as engineering product developer. He will help expand CGI's product design, development and manufacturing capabilities. CGI is a Southern California-based supplier of aftermarket bicycle ...
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The National Interscholastic Cycling Association is launching a pilot program this fall in Minnesota to introduce middle school students to mountain bike racing. The goal with the pilot is to learn best practices and to develop curriculum ...
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FSA plans to launch its first hydraulic mountain bike brakes at Eurobike next week, in XC Race and Trail versions. The company said the new brakes feature tool-free stroke and reach adjustments, allowing them to be set up on the fly for a ...
Tags: Hydraulic MTB Brake, bike
U.S. suppliers shipped roughly the same number of bikes to retailers in July as last year, resulting in some improvement in year-to-date sales. Sales to IBDs were up 0.1 percent in units and up 1.1 percent in dollars in July compared to ...
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The Mountain Bike Hall of Fame has announced its 2013 inductees and has announced a planned move from Crested Butte to Marin County, California. The Hall was founded in Crested Butte in 1988 and is located in a small storefront along the ...
Tags: Mountain Bike, Marin County
Felt Bicycles showed off its 2014 mountain bike line to a group of editors and a handful of retailers at the company’s headquarters in Irvine, California, this week. Felt invested heavily in its mountain bike line for 2014, with a ...
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After more than 20 years of licensing its brand name to an Italian company for use outside of North America, Bell Helmets has reacquired the worldwide rights to its brand in the powersports market. "Our motorcycle helmet business is a ...
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Retail sales for June were down 2 percent in units but up 1 percent in dollars, coming in at $391 million, according to Leisure Trends Group's RetailTrak IBD sales summary. Year-to-date sales are still down 5 percent and off by $88 million ...
Tags: Bicycle, Mountain bike
Retail sales for June were down 2 percent in units but up 1 percent in dollars, coming in at $391 million, according to Leisure Trends Group's RetailTrak IBD sales summary. Year-to-date sales are still down 5 percent and off by $88 million ...
Tags: Retail Sales, bike, Bicycle, Mountain bike
SRAM this week released details of its second 1x11 mountain bike group, called XO1. The group slots in a few hundred dollars cheaper than its first 11-speed, single-chainring group, XX1, and will be available in September. The groups are ...
Tags: SRAM, Lower-Priced 1x11 Group
Interbike has added an enduro event to this year's OutDoor Demo. The Enduro Challenge at Bootleg Canyon, presented by Innovative Timing Systems, is open to all Interbike and OutDoor Demo attendees. It will be held on both Monday and ...
Tags: Interbike, Outdoor Demo
In 2007, framebuilder Kirk Pacenti hired Panaracer to make him some 650b mountain bike tires on a contract basis. Pacenti was way ahead of the curve in embracing the in-between tire size, but sales grew steadily year after year and now ...
Tags: Tires, Auto Parts
French bike brand Lapierre has launched a new website?for its recently formed North American division. The site is home to North American product offerings, technology, team information, a dealer locator, consumer blog and monthly ...
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