Burley Design is recalling about 4,150 Tailwind racks used for hitching children’s trailer cycles to adult-size bicycles because the top portion can break and allow the trailer cycle to disconnect. The aluminum racks were sold in ...
Felt Bicycles announces this week it will not renew its sponsorship of the Team Argos-Shimano pro team for the 2014 season. "After two very successful years together, the decision is one that did not come easily," a Felt statement said. ...
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Steven’s Bicycles has been a Fresno fixture at its Palm and Shields location since 1955, but the retailer will be closing its store there Nov. 22 to move to the Figarden Loop in Northwest Fresno at Brawley. Construction is in its ...
September bikes sales at IBDs weren't quite so bad asinitially reported. Leisure Trends has corrected and restated its RetailTrak IBD sales summary for the month. "Shortly after we published September data last week, we noticed anomalies ...
Seventeen new campuses made it onto the League of American Bicyclists’ bike-friendly universities, which now includes 75 colleges in 32 states and Washington, D.C. Moving up the rankings from a gold designation to platinum is the ...
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The company said features numerous technical upgrades and presents the 2014 product line in a more dynamic fashion. Redline, founded in 1974, is owned by Seattle Bike Supply, an Accell Group company. "The new site includes extensive ...
Worksman Cycles, a New York City manufacturer of bicycles, is switching to PPG Industries' Aquacron water-based liquid coatings for its frames. The company had been using vegetable-based coatings that appealed from an environmental ...
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This blog post was written by?Fred Clements, executive director of the?National Bicycle Dealers Association. Clements' previous blog posts can be read on A small but resolute group of bicycle industry leaders stormed Capitol Hill ...
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In cash-strapped times even cycling parents may consider economising when it comes to buying a bike for their child; after all, they’ll outgrow it in a few years. But here’s the thing: you don’t get forever to sell ...
IBD merchandise sales fell 11 percent in September to land at $252 million, and units were down 13 percent compared to the same period in 2012 according to Leisure Trends Group's RetailTrak IBD sales summary. About 167,000 bicycles were ...
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Brazil's global news and bicycle association showed the joint research, the average tax levels of bicycle as high as 40.5% of the purchase price, while the car is only 32%. In the industrial products tax, the tax differences between cars ...
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The limited company EICMA is the marketing tool of Confindustria ANCMA, the National Association of Bicycles Motorcycles and Accessories, through which Italy consolidates its role on the international scene. EICMA organizes the ...
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Spot Brand has hired 19-year bicycle industry veteran Adam Williams as sales director. Williams worked as a sales rep, tech rep and demo tour manager for Rocky Mountain Bicycles; he also helped start and grow Golden Bike Shop, a local ...
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Terry Bicycles has hired David Howard as sales director. Howard worked for 25 years in the pharmaceutical and medical devices industries, where he gained extensive experience in sales and sales management of inside and independent sales ...
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Hawley will become Swobo's exclusive U.S. distributor effective Friday, Nov. 1. "Hawley brings a new and vital dimension to the sales of Swobo," said Peter Discoe, Swobo's president. "Their team of representatives are some of the best in ...
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