Greg Brodsky, longtime leader of The Bike Cooperative, stepped aside Feb. 1 as outdoor industry veteran Scott Barrett became the new president of the retailer-owned cooperative. Barrett comes to The Bike Cooperative as a lifelong cycling ...
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The "No Bicycles" signs will be coming down in Black Hawk, Colorado, after the state's highest court overturned a lower court ruling and said the mountain town must allow bikes on its main drag. The town, best known for its casinos, had ...
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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 ...
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Rolf Prima has begun shipping the company’s Ralos mountain bike wheels with the new XD driver that is SRAM 1x11 XX1 compatible. Rolf Prima’s new XD driver is CNC’d out of titanium in the U.S., and all Ralos (alloy 26-, ...
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The North American Handmade Bicycle Show recently set a record for registered exhibitors. The show, to be held in Denver February 22-24, had 185 registered exhibitors as of January 29. That is 11 more than the previous record, set at the ...
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Platypus Australia, one of the world’s foremost providers of children’s UV protective swimwear, has just launched their long awaited summer 2013 range. The catalogue’s new range of designs addresses the requirements for ...
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The BRAIN Dealer Tour of San Francisco wrapped up Thursday with a 20-mile jaunt around the city, ably led by folks from the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, who for the most part managed to route us around the steepest hills as we visited ...
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The BRAIN Dealer Tour glided across the Golden Gate Bridge early Wednesday to start a day visiting bike shops in Marin County on a 35 mile-plus day of riding around the beautiful area. It's no secret even to folks who haven't ...
The BRAIN Dealer Tour went multi-model on its first day Tuesday, visiting shops in Berkeley and Oakland by bike, with transfers across San Francisco Bay via ferry and the BART rail. The day wrapped up with a reception at the Chrome ...
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Bike Fixtation partnered with Green Guru to provide simple and cost effective inner tube recycling services for bike rooms, repair kiosks and other public use bicycle repair stations. Bike Fixtation will collect, sort, and send ...
Bern Unlimited has appointed three new sales agencies across the East Coast: Specialty Sports, Mountain Enterprises and Harrison Montgomery. "We've worked hard to earn our place at with specialty retailers in the action sports, snow and ...
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 ...
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MORGAN HILL, CA (BRAIN) — Specialized is working with the Consumer Product Safety Commission to recall about 12,200 bikes due to faulty carbon forks. Models affected are the 2012 and 2013 Tarmac SL4, 2013 Crux and 2013 Secteur Disc ...
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Editor's note: The following article appeared in the January 2013 issue of Bicycle Retailer & Industry News. OLNEY, IL (BRAIN) —Magura picked up so much new disc brake spec for 2013 it topped up the diesel in two Sprinter vans ...
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BLOOMINGTON, MN (BRAIN) — Retailer Penn Cycling is offering free bike repair and maintenance classes to all participants in the Minnesota High School Cycling League. The League, sanctioned by the National Interscholastic Cycling ...
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