Wheelmakers are preparing to take on cycling competition's governing body, the UCI, over testing the Swiss body requires for wheels used in sanctioned competition. At a meeting here last week, manufacturers left little doubt of their ...
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Editor's note: The following article appeared in the March 1 issue of Bicycle Retailer & Industry News and is part of our series of articles on succession in the bike industry. When Peter Enright agreed to friend Spence Wolf’s ...
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Sales got off to a slow start at independent bicycle dealers this year. While total dollar sales held steady at $145 million, unit sales slipped 2 percent in January, according to sell-through data from Leisure Trends Group. Complete bike ...
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A group of 20 leaders from the bike industry toured the nation's capital's new protected bike lanes on a trip hosted by Bikes Belong Foundation’s Green Lane Project on Monday. The tour highlighted protected bike lanes, also known as ...
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The World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry, which represents the bike industry to the UCI and the International Olympic Committee, will hold a public meeting at the Taipei Cycle Show this month. In 2009 the WFSGI created a ...
A newly formed investment group has purchased carbon wheel manufacturer Mad Fiber, the first of several bike industry acquisitions it's eyeing in 2013. Divine Cycling Group was founded in January by Gary Ullman and Dan Devine, who, ...
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Gates Carbon Drive is collaborating with White Industries to create the CDX Freewheel, a screw-on freewheel sprocket for the Gates belt drive system. The CDX Freewheel mates a Carbon Drive CenterTrack sprocket to White’s ENO sealed ...
January to December 2012, China's bicycle manufacturing industry accumulated industrial sales output achieved a year-on-year growth of 16.19% (December single-month increase was 22.39%) and the total sales rate was 98.73%, and accumulated ...
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With snow shutting airports and icing up Interstates, Quality Bicycle Products expects little impact on attendance at Frostbike which opened today with various seminars. Tomorrow QBP’s Frost Bike expo opens with over 130 vendors ...
Ethic Industries, the owner of the Alchemy Bicycle Company, is launching a bike painting service at its Denver headquarters. Chroma Fab will offer OEM painting for bike frame and fork manufacturers, as well as motorsports manufacturers. ...
BOULDER, CO (BRAIN) — Are cyclists interested in sustainability? An industry group is looking to measure consumers' attitudes and behaviors before the Bicycle Leadership Conference holds a session on sustainability in April in ...
The second annual Fatbike Summit here succeeded in getting land managers and bike advocates on fat bikes for the first time and helped create a new group of educated allies for the activity, organizers said. More than 100 fat bike ...
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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 ...
The League of American Bicyclists has added several big names to the list of speakers at its National Women's Bicycling Forum, to be held here March 4. New speakers include U.S. Rep.Tammy Duckworth, D-Illinois, New York City ...
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Belgian bike manufacturer Ridley Bikes has hired Richard Wittenberg as vice president of international operations. Wittenberg, who has worked at Cannondale, Asahi, Seattle Bike Supply, Pacific and elsewhere in the bike industry, will split ...
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