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World Bicycle Relief distributes 220 bicycles to students in Eritrea

Posted October 14, 2015

CHICAGO (BRAIN) — World Bicycle Relief distributed 220 bicycles to students in Eritrea on Tuesday in collaboration Team Africa Rising, the National Eritrean Cycling Federation, the Eritrean Ministry of Culture and Sport, the Ministry of Education and the UNDP.

WTB hires Wangbichler as media and PR content editor

Posted October 9, 2015

MILL VALLEY, Calif. (BRAIN) — WTB has hired Clayton Wangbichler as media and public relations content editor.  Wangbichler comes to WTB from Mountain Bike Action magazine, where he served as assistant editor.

Uncommon Communications to represent BOS Suspension

Posted October 8, 2015

TOULOUSE, France (BRAIN) — BOS Suspension has signed Colorado’s Uncommon Communications as its global communications and marketing agency of record.

YT Industries names McCann international business manager

Posted October 8, 2015

FORCHHEIM, Germany (BRAIN) — YT Industries has hired Duncan McCann as international business manager.

Showers Pass launches B2B website for IBDs

Posted October 7, 2015

PORTLAND, Ore. (BRAIN)  — Showers Pass has launched an IBD support program that includes a new B2B website giving dealers access to 24/7 ordering, real-time inventory, and shipping and account customization.

Hawley Co. shipping, as bike industry is hit hard in South Carolina flooding

Posted October 6, 2015

LEXINGTON, S.C. (BRAIN) — The sun is shining and waters are receding in South Carolina, but the bicycle industry  — along with hundreds of other businesses — took a hit as floodwaters ravaged parts of Columbia and Charleston as well as other sections of the state.

PeopleForBikes and Verde represented on Colorado outdoor industry advisory group

Posted October 6, 2015

DENVER (BRAIN) — The bike community has a voice in Colorado's new Office of Outdoor Recreation, a state office that was created this year.

Mountain bike pioneer Charlie Cunningham looking for help after injury

Posted October 6, 2015

FAIRFAX, Calif. (BRAIN) — Friends of mountain bike pioneer Charlie Cunningham are running a crowd-funding campaign on Gofundme.com to help Cunningham with medical expenses following a bike accident in August.

According to the campaign's homepage, Cunningham had a bike crash in early August. 

Caress steps down as president of triathlon trade group

Posted October 6, 2015

ORANGE, Calif. (BRAIN) — Jack Caress is stepping down as president of the trade group Triathlon Business International, the group announced Tuesday.

Today's the deadline to apply for a free store remodel in BRAIN's Retail Remodel Project

Posted October 5, 2015

LAGUNA HILLS, Calif. (BRAIN) — Applications are being accepted through the end of the day Monday for Bicycle Retailer's second Retail Remodel Project, in which the magazine and several partners provide a free store remodel using current best practices.

BPSA: Bike shipments flat, but e-bikes and gravel bikes growing

Posted October 5, 2015

BOULDER, Colo. (BRAIN) — Bicycle Product Suppliers Association members shipped 1.8 million bikes to dealers through August this year, less than half a percent more than they shipped in the same period last year.

Rotating Mass art director changes

Posted October 2, 2015

PITTSBURGH (BRAIN) — Dirt Rag's art director for the last seven years, Matt Kasprzyk, is moving on to a new career at Scott Sports. Kasprzyk's vacancy will be filled by long­time Bicycle Times art director, Stephen Haynes.

Dirt Rag's Issue #188 will be Kasprzyk's last with the magazine.

Outerbike opens with e-bikes, retail exhibitors (and the usual stampede)

Posted October 2, 2015
MOAB, Utah (BRAIN) — Outerbike, a consumer demo event held just outside this mountain bike destination, opened Friday with its traditional stampede as riders rushed in to grab their preferred demo bike.

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