COLORADO SPRINGS, CO (BRAIN) — USA Cycling has released its calendar of 2013 national championships events for road, mountain bike, track and BMX. The calendar's marquee event is the professional road and time trial championships, ...
CARLSBAD, CA (BRAIN) — Campagnolo North America is planning a holiday toy drive and bike ride for Saturday, December 8, leaving from the company's offices here. The toy drive and ride will be in memory of Troy Angwin, a long time ...
Tags: holiday toy drive, bike ride
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
That Was Then, This Is Now. Fortunately, those 240-day lead times from back in the early 2000s are a thing of the past. As discussed previously, it’s more like half that nowadays. Marketing communications can be developed and deployed ...
TAICHUNG, Taiwan (BRAIN) — The industry's major bike makers sent product managers to the heart of Taiwan's manufacturing area this week to consider products for complete bikes that bike shops won't see until later 2013 or later. In ...
Tags: bike makers, Bike Week, complete bikes
MILWAUKEE, WI (BRAIN) — The BiKASE IKASE holds an iPad on bike handlebars for use on stationary trainers. The product allows users to read books, check emails, watch movies, or use a trainer app. Charger and headphone cords can be ...
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EUGENE, OR (BRAIN) — Bike Friday is recalling about 3,800 Tikit folding bikes as part of a voluntary recall in cooperation with the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The handlebar stem on the Tikit can break. So far Bike Friday ...
Tags: Bike, folding bikes
WATERLOO, WI (BRAIN) — A new book written by Trek president John Burke becomes available Wednesday through Trek retailers, Amazon and iBooks. “One Last Great Thing” is a tribute to the life and lessons of the ...
Tags: bike company, book, Trek
BOULDER, CO (BRAIN) — As noted in the BikeBrain app review earlier this week, there are many mobile apps that turn your smart phone into a really fancy bike computer. Cyclemeter is another one, and like BikeBrain’s geolocated ...
Tags: BikeBrain, Cyclemeter App
Taipei, Nov.1, 2012 (CENS) – Taiwan’s two major bike makers, Merida Bikes and Giant Global Group, enjoyed booming revenues in the third quarter, with Merida’s earning per share (EPS) reaching NT$2.43 (US$0.081), a new ...
Tags: Merida Bikes, Giant Global Group, demand of mid-and high-end bikes
LOS ANGELES, CA (BRAIN) — Giro chose Golden Saddle Cyclery in Los Angeles’ hip Silverlake neighborhood to preview its new line of casual and performance road apparel to the cycling media on Thursday evening. Selections from ...
Tags: Cyclery, performance road apparel
TAICHUNG, Taiwan (BRAIN) — From red to green, the cadre of former Marzocchi employees who formed DVO Suspension earlier this year seem to be finding it easy being a new color scheme. The company, pronounced "devo," is being led by ...