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Posted June 6, 2019

LEVIS, Québec and LEXINGTON, S.C. (BRAIN) — HLC is now offering an online fulfillment service to retailers in the US and Canada.

Posted June 5, 2019

WASHINGTON (BRAIN) — Early in this decade, the U.S. imported bike car racks, high-end road wheels, and the occasional road bike from Mexico. As recently as 2001, the U.S. imported hundreds of thousands of bikes annually from south of the border. But more recently, Mexico has exported almost no bicycle products to the U.S.

Posted June 5, 2019

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (BRAIN) — Coffee and cycling go together as famously as peas and carrots. Doug Zell and Chris St. Peter decided to take it one fancy step farther.

Posted June 5, 2019
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WASHINGTON (BRAIN) — The U.S. Trade Representative is delaying by 15 days the imposition of increased tariffs on some Chinese goods.

Posted June 5, 2019

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (BRAIN) — Bird, which operates e-scooter share programs in more than 100 cities, has announced a new option being rolled out for tests in some markets: a two-seated electric bike called the Bird Cruiser.

Posted June 5, 2019

The reality is, it will take two to four years, until 2021—2023, to completely re-source the U.S. bicycle business out of China.

Posted June 4, 2019

BOULDER, Colo. (BRAIN) — Have you ever wanted to join PeopleForBikes' congressional visit program to share your business's concerns and story with elected officials?

PeopleForBikes will hold an industry webinar June 19 to review its congressional visit program

Posted June 4, 2019

GIVISIEZ, Switzerland (BRAIN) — Scott Sports is now occupying its new headquarters building here, a 7-level, 278,000-square-foot structure that houses 600 employees in the company's Bike, Winter, Moto and Running divisions.

Posted June 3, 2019

Suppliers see direct-to-consumer sales fulfilled through retailers as a way to turn more prospects into customers and to keep more of the profit dollars. Retailers see it as an end-run around themselves and their hard-earned margins. Are they both right? No, they're both wrong. And here's why.

Posted June 3, 2019

DURANGO, Colo. (BRAIN) — Brett Hahn, the brand Manager for Continental Bicycle Tires in North America, is leaving his post after 20 years.

Posted May 31, 2019
500 XT 'priority packs' were sold in the US.

IRVINE, Calif. (BRAIN) — In what may be a first for the company, Shimano is making a major new group of components available for retail purchase soon after a public launch, both as original equipment and in the aftermarket.

Posted May 31, 2019
Emporia bike shops were also doing a hopping business this week.

EMPORIA, Kan. (BRAIN) — The Dirty Kanza "All Things Gravel" expo has quickly become the place to launch new gravel gear for the upcoming season, and even show new products that will be raced at Saturday's Dirty Kanza 200 race. The expo opened Thursday and runs through Friday.

Posted May 31, 2019

NEW YORK (BRAIN) — A pair of street artists have settled a copyright lawsuit they had filed against Brompton Bicycle and a closed New York bike shop, court records show.

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