News

Posted August 19, 2009

WASHINGTON, D.C. (BRAIN)—The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with Felt Bicycles, has issued a voluntary recall of about 1,500 Felt F1X cyclocross bicycles from 2007/2008.

The manufacturer is Aprebic/EVO Industry Co. Ltd., of Taiwan.

Posted August 19, 2009

DUARTE, CA (BRAIN)— Dahon has had steady growth in sales for the first half of 2009, with a 6 percent increase in unit volume and a 27 percent increase in revenues, compared with the year earlier period.

Posted August 19, 2009

WASHINGTON, D.C. (BRAIN)—The Made in USA sticker is giving exporters of kids' bikes a good year so far as shipments reached 14,606 juvenile bikes through June, an increase of 19 percent.

Posted August 19, 2009

James Thomas from Serfas dropped by earlier this week with some new product in hand for 2010—and on his face. Isla glasses feature four interchangable lenses and an RXable clip insert. Isla retails for $50.

Posted August 18, 2009

PORT COQUITLAM, British Columbia (BRAIN)—Ridley has signed on with Norco as its new Canadian distributor. After years of successful collaboration, Ridley Bikes and Vellend Tech have mutually decided to end their partnership.

Posted August 18, 2009

BOULDER, CO (BRAIN)—Kevin Cox and Holly Wiese have teamed up to create their own strategic retail design and visual merchandising company, 3 Dots Design.

Posted August 18, 2009

BOULDER, CO (BRAIN)—Competitor Group, Inc. has launched an online publication focused on the mountain bike lifestyle at Singletrack.com.

Posted August 18, 2009

VAN NUYS, CA (BRAIN)—Sales in Easton Bell Sports’ Action Segment, which includes its cycling division, fell 2.3 percent in the second quarter of 2009 as OEM cycling component purchases declined due to soft demand for high-end bikes, according to Paul Harrington, president and chief executive officer of Easton Bell.

Posted August 18, 2009

BRAIN's Robert Roman fashions himself more of a road rider than mountain. Evidence of this was on display at Aliso & Woods Canyons Regional Park on Monday night when Roman took a spill on one of Aliso's trails, banging up his knee, and knocking him out of yesterday's road ride.

Posted August 17, 2009

NORCROSS, GA (BRAIN)—Blue competition cycles has officially launched in the UK through its distribution partner Multisport Distribution Limited.

Posted August 17, 2009

SPEEDWAY, IN (BRAIN)—Cycling United Austria will distribute Zipp Speed Weaponry product in the Austrian market.

Posted August 17, 2009

MILL VALLEY, CA (BRAIN)—Alienation BMX has added Western Power Sports to its U.S./domestic distribution channel.

In an effort to make Alieanation race-specific product more available to the domestic dealer base, WPS and Alienation have joined forces to make this partnership happen.

Posted August 17, 2009

MELBOURNE, Australia (BRAIN)—Despite wild weather on Sunday morning that threatened the show, the inaugural Ausbike Expo exceeded organizers’ expectations.

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