Action Bicycle’s annual expo returns for its 15th edition this Sunday, March 3, with more than 50 vendors, including four first-time brands. New to the East Coast distributor’s show this year are Yakima, Alpinestars, Zym and ...
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Tour de France hero Greg LeMond said he expects to begin selling bicycles again, possibly showing prototype models as early as this year's Interbike. "I've got quite a few different ideas," LeMond said in a Skype interview with BRAIN this ...
Tags: LeMond, Lance Armstrong, bike
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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They came, they rode, they smiled. “This is sooooo much fun,” enthused a writer for O, the Oprah magazine, as she returned from a spin on a new Electra electric bike. A handful of mainstream media representatives, from ...
Sub-900-gram carbon frames built with Campagnolo’s Super Record group are rare, but what gets the double-take and holds it is the Diamondback logo on the downtube. And when, if ever, was an $8,000 Diamondback road bike ...
Tags: carbon frames, bike, bike accessories
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (BRAIN) — Bicycle Retailer & Industry News editors and sponsors will canvas the Bay Area this week, visiting 14 retailers in the East Bay, Marin County and San Francisco by bike. Editors will post daily stories ...
Tags: Bicycle Retailer&Industry, bike, bike race
SALT LAKE CITY (BRAIN) — Salt Lake City officials, along with hundreds of part-time workers who support Outdoor Retailer’s winter and summer shows, are breathing a sigh of relief — Outdoor Retailer will remain at the Salt ...
Tags: Outdoor show, outdoor recreation, Interbike
Outdoor Retailer’s Winter Market kicks off Tuesday with an outdoor demo at Solitude Mountain Resort. But for Salt Lake’s business community, a 4 p.m. announcement at Solitude by the show’s owner, Nielsen Business Media, ...
A new company based in Minneapolis is resuming sales of LeMond bike trainers to the IBD market and consumer direct. Last fall LeMond Fitness, then based near Seattle, Washington, sold its stationary bike business to Hoist Fitness, a ...
Tags: IBD market, bike business, bike
Industry job changes at Garmin, Profile Design, Wheels Manufacturing, Interbike and Todson Whittingham leaves Wheels SUPERIOR, CO (BRAIN) — Dave Whittingham has left Wheels Manufacturing, where he was marketing manager. The ...
Tags: Wheels, transport, Wheels Manufacturing
COSTA MESA, CA (BRAIN) — Bicycle Retailer and Industry News has officially handed off its long running Top 100 and Gold Star retailer recognition program to the National Bicycle Dealers Association. This year the NBDA will manage the ...
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Interbike is strengthening its ties with Triathlon Business International,a coalition of multi-sport industry leaders. Both companies will help promote triathlon at the IBD Summit,the TBI Conference and at Interbike 2013.The initiatives ...
Tags: Interbike, Triathlon, TBI, multi-sport industry
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 ...
Tags: Disc brakes, road bikes, Germany, company news
NEW YORK, NY (BRAIN) — Interbike owner Nielsen Holdings has acquired The Sports Licensing & Tailgate Show and the Tailgating Industry Association. The 6-year-old annual trade show is holding its next show Jan. 17-19 in Las Vegas. ...
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NEW YORK, NY (BRAIN) — Interbike owner Nielsen Holdings has acquired The Sports Licensing & Tailgate Show and the Tailgating Industry Association. The six-year-old annual trade show is holding its next show January 17-19 in Las Vegas. ...
Tags: Interbike, Nielsen Holdings, acquisition, Tailgating Industry Association