CHICAGO, IL (BRAIN) — If you dream about how Lewis Tardy’s Free Wheeling or one of the other SRAM Part Sculptures you saw at Interbike would look in your home or shop, now is your chance to buy. SRAM is offering Part Project Art ...
BRUSSELS, Belgium (BRAIN) — A bike is a bike is a bike, and a motorbike is something else. But where to draw the line between an electric bike and a motorbike is a thornier question. The European Parliament on Tuesday voted that ...
Tags: bike, motorbike, electric bikes
Conventional wisdom is the Big Three bike brands — Trek, Giant, and Specialized — control the lion's share of the US bike market. Actual numbers in this business are almost impossible to come by, but you'd be hard put to find an ...
Tags: bike brands, bike market
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, ...
Tags: Electra Markets, Bicycles, bike geek
Ask any retailer. We were blessed with great spring weather in North America this year, and now there aren’t nearly enough bikes in the channel to meet demand. Dealers blame suppliers for not building the right number. Suppliers ...
This two-part entry is actually the second half of my previous post about why there weren’t nearly enough bikes in model year 2012 and why we don’t seem to be able to do anything about the chronic under- or over-supply of ...
Tags: bikes, Model Years
KENT, WA (BRAIN) — Diamondback is working with the Consumer Product Safety Commision on a recall of about 40 cyclocross bikes that were assembled with incorrect headset parts. The incorrect part could cause the steerer tube to fail, ...
NEW YORK, NY (BRAIN) — Rizzoli New York is publishing a new book on the history and design of the Cinelli brand.?Cinelli: The Art and Design of the Bicycle has almost 300 full color pages. The book includes contributions by riders ...
Tags: New Book, Design of the Bicycle
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, CO (BRAIN) — For those who find a cowbell too ... bucolic, Moots is offering a Ti Stick to make noise at your next cyclocross race and raise money for Bicycle Colorado, a statewide advocacy group. The Ti Stick is ...
Tags: cyclocross race, Bicycle, Ti Stick
My friend and colleague Ray Keener makes a good point in this?BR&IN?blog post?from last week when he asks the question, "Are flat bike sales for the past 35 years a good thing or a bad thing?" Among other things, Keener points out that ...
Tags: flat bike sales, new bikes
I finally got my hands on the National Sporting Goods Administration's (NSGA) 2010 report on the US Bicycle Market. In addition to being some of the most exciting news we've seen in 20 years (more about that in a minute), it's also by far ...
Tags: Bicycle Market, Bicycle
BOULDER, CO (BRAIN) — Leisure Trends Group projects that IBD sales for the year through September have reached more than $3 billion, up 7 percent compared with the same period in 2011. However, the research firm also said that in ...
Author(s): Rob Mosher Author(s): Nicole Steele Transportation Reauthorization Approved After months of intense negotiations, on June 29th Congress cleared a bill (H.R. 4348) that will ensure funding for highway and mass transit projects ...
Tags: ransit projects, Transportation Reauthorization, Farm Bill
LONDON, UK (BRAIN) – Hornit is launching its 140 decibel bicycle horn in North America, with distribution by Action Bicycle, Olympic Supply Company, Cyclone Bicycle Supply and Cycles Lambert. The $44.95 retail horn is designed to be ...
Tags: Hornit, decibel bicycle horn, North America, Action Bicycle
COSTA MESA, CA (BRAIN)—The National Bicycle Dealers Association invites its members to a webinar Wednesday by business consultant Tom Shay. The webinar, titled Strategies to Win in a Challenging Economy, is from 10 to 11 a.m. Pacific ...
Tags: National Bicycle Dealers Association, Nbda Webinar, economy