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Posted January 24, 2022

OGDEN, Utah (BRAIN) — Tektro has developed a nine-speed drivetrain specifically for entry-level e-bikes that features a cassette with the three smallest sprockets being replaceable.

Posted January 24, 2022

HAINESPORT, N.J. (BRAIN) — Margaret "Marge" A. Ronn, a long-time industry sales professional, died Jan. 8 from complications related to COVID. She was 72.

Posted January 24, 2022

HEERENVEEN, Netherlands (BRAIN) — A consortium headed by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. reached a conditional agreement to buy the Accell Group N.V. The group, which includes Teslin Alpine Acquisition B.V., reached agreement on an all-cash offering for the shares for 1.56 billion euros ($1.76 billion).

Posted January 21, 2022

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (BRAIN) — Online retailer Jenson USA will provide suspension service, pledging factory-level repair for forks and shocks.

Posted January 20, 2022

NEW YORK (BRAIN) — A CNBC report that Peloton had paused production of its exercise bikes because of slackening demand caused the company's stock price to fall to a two-year low on Thursday.

Posted January 20, 2022
Ellsworth will take an active role in design and development of his namesake brand after a four-year absence.
Rudi Pienaar, left, and Tony Ellsworth.

SAN DIEGO (BRAIN) — Tony Ellsworth is returning to his namesake mountain bike brand after a four-year absence to become chief development/design officer.

Posted January 19, 2022

BROOMFIELD, Colo. (BRAIN) — Two Colorado-based bike e-commerce retailers have merged.

On Dec. 9, Colorado Cyclist, based in Colorado Springs, merged with Broomfield-based Planet Cyclery. Both are now owned by Velo Operating, LLC., a new company now headquartered at Planet Cyclery’s facility.

Posted January 19, 2022

DETROIT (BRAIN) — Cardinal Cycling Group, a new company formed last year to acquire the TIME bicycle business from Rossignol, has acquired Detroit Bikes.

Posted January 19, 2022

CHICAGO (BRAIN) — SRAM announced Wednesday the acquisition of cycling computer brand Hammerhead. The transaction was completed Dec. 30.

Posted January 19, 2022
Kona co-founders Jake Heilbron and Dan Gerhard remain with the company.

SEATTLE (BRAIN) — Kona Bicycles has been acquired by Kent Outdoors, a Ohio-based company that was known until Wednesday as Kent Water Sports. Kent Outdoors owns several outdoor sports and watersport brands, including the Arbor snowboard brand.

Posted January 17, 2022

IRVINE, Calif. (BRAIN) — Nearly 56% of female cyclists riding today either started cycling during the pandemic or returned to it after a layoff, according to the National Bicycle Dealers Association's Bicycling Buying 2021 Consumer Research
Study.

Posted January 13, 2022

ARLINGTON, Va. (BRAIN) — Trek Bicycle is buying the Washington, D.C.-are retail chain Spokes, Etc., 

The store announced the purchase on its Facebook page this weekend.

Posted January 13, 2022

SEATTLE (BRAIN) — REI Co-op will build a new distribution center in Lebanon, Tennessee, to support growth on the East Coast, Midwest, and South.

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