The CycleTEK Momentum1 trainer boasts 29er compatibility, a large flywheel for realistic coasting and acceleration resistance and a fluid resistance unit that offers a smooth and repeatable resistance curve. The fluid resistance unit uses ...
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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 ...
Crankbrothers has streamlined its range of cockpit components and paired-spoke tubeless wheels for 2014—a welcome development for retailers suffering from SKU overload—and is offering its alloy wheelsets at more competitive ...
Wittson Cycles is now offering a titanium 29er rigid fork called the Nulla. The fork is the first stock production product to come from the Lithuania custom builder. The Nulla is made from welded Grade 9 titanium with an integrated brake ...
White Lightning is expanding its line of "Johnny" transport products with the Wheel Johnny, a wheel bag designed for transport and storage. The Wheel Johnny is made from water, and UV-resistant two ply rubber/nylon material. A zipper ...
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Hearing from dealers that Chain Reaction or Wiggle is offering products below wholesale is not a phone call any supplier wants to field. So when Stan's OE sales manager Mark Hillam started with the company, one of the first things on his ...
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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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Fizik says its new Thar saddle line was specifically designed for use on 29er mountain bikes. The company said the Thar saddles have rails that are 25 mm longer than usual, with the extra length added to the rear. That allows the saddle ...
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As Leisure Trends Group broadcast its 2013 Pre-Interbike Sales Trends webinar live from a soggy and flooded Boulder, Colo., the topic of weather was impossible to ignore. ? While 2012 was the year of much sun and no rain across the ...
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KindHuman is releasing a line of three steel framesets to complement the carbon fiber models it announced earlier this year.?The line consists of three models for road, cyclocross and mountain biking all made in the United States. "We ...
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Stepping out of the exhibit halls in the courtyards at the Messe Friedrichshafen — the massive expo center that hosts the Eurobike show — you take some risks. The courtyards have smoking zones that get ample use. They also ...
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It's not just grandmas anymore. E-bike riders are getting younger and the product needs to reflect this change in demographic, according to Marcel Geurts, senior e-product manager at Cannondale, which launched three new models yesterday; ...
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The news from Open Cycle — the mountain bike brand formed by Cervélo?co-founder Gerard?Vroomen and former BMC chief executive Andy Kessler — is a new color for the company's one product, a carbon hardtail 29er called the ...
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While the Spanish crank and power brand has adopted more subtle graphics for its cranksets, changes go more than skin deep. "We've got new materials and a more serious mountain bike line," said Phillip Lucas, head of Rotor's U.S. office in ...
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U.S. suppliers shipped roughly the same number of bikes to retailers in July as last year, resulting in some improvement in year-to-date sales. Sales to IBDs were up 0.1 percent in units and up 1.1 percent in dollars in July compared to ...
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