LONG BEACH, CA (BRAIN) — Italian fork brand Marzocchi has moved its U.S. operations from Valencia to Long Beach, California, and following a difficult year in 2012, says it is ready to return strongly to the OE market for the 2014 ...
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Chris Clinton is joining Challenge North America as marketing and OE sales director, the company announced Tuesday. Stefano Lumbaca, who opened the brand's North American office in Ohio last June, has left the company. Emily Zinn, who is ...
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PHILADELPHIA, PA (BRAIN) — The mayor of Philadelphia said Tuesday that he will work to bring "a major pro cycling event" back to the city as soon as next year. Organizers of the long-running Philadelphia International Cycling ...
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Ever wanted to work for a pro cycling team,helping top athletes prepare and recover,washing their clothes,making their food,and basically acting like a combination coach,physical therapist and mom? Now the international cycling ...
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Custom apparel maker Champion System on Friday introduced its 2013 pro road cycling team,marking the second year for the world's first Asian-based UCI Pro Continental squad. The team is composed of 21 riders from 14 countries in ...
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LOUISVILLE, KY (BRAIN) — A Belgium software company, AFAS Software, has stepped up as a major sponsor of the UCI Cyclocross World Championships, to be held here the first weekend of next month. The last-minute deal will help ensure ...
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POSTFACH, Germany (BRAIN) — Disc brakes on road bikes? Not so fast, says Germany’s brake specialist, Magura. Magura has launched a study logging how a number of test riders use disc brakes over miles of European roads before ...
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MORGAN HILL, CA (BRAIN) — The mountain bike racing community on Thursday mourned the loss of South African racer Burry Stander, who died after being hit by a car while training in his home country on Thursday. Stander, 25, was a ...
HONG KONG, China (BRAIN) — Starting at this month's Tour Down Under and for the next three three years, Team Lampre-Merida will be racing in Champion System cycling clothing, the team announced Wednesday. The new kit features Lampre's ...
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (BRAIN) — Shimano Latin America announced a new UCI Continental team on Wednesday to be based on Buenos Aires and led by Walter Perez, gold medalist in the 2008 Beijing Olympics and a prolific Argentine ...
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BOULDER, CO (BRAIN) — Bike fit company Retül will be fitting riders on three major road teams in 2013, the company announced Thursday. The company now has agreements with two UCI ProTour teams – Team ...
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Tour de France champion Greg LeMond told the French paper Le Monde over the weekend that he would be a candidate for the presidency of the cycling union UCI. "I'm ready. I was asked and I accepted. If we want to restore public confidence ...
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Change Cycling Now looks to reform pro cycling and the UCI LONDON, United Kingdom (BRAIN) — Tour de France hero Greg LeMond is the latest to join the self-described "global pressure group" Change Cycling Now, which is holding its ...
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How does Electra Bicycles turn a tidy profit marketing products to a nonenthusiast customer base the rest of the industry is largely content to ignore? Electra Marketing Director Elayne Fowler knows. But aside from a few tantalizing hints, ...
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TAICHUNG, Taiwan (BRAIN) —Since showing its first set of hydraulic road disc brakes on Colnago’s C59 road bike at this year’s Taipei Cycle show, Formula has been fielding a nearly endless stream of inquiries from potential ...
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