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Posted December 4, 2017

SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (BRAIN) — After nearly three years selling in the U.S., German consumer-direct brand YT Industries has set up a U.S. headquarters in this beach city. 

Posted December 4, 2017

EUGENE, Ore. (BRAIN) — Rolf Prima has reach a multi-year partnership with the Race Across America (RAAM), naming the brand the Official Wheel for The World's Toughest Bicycle Race.

Posted December 4, 2017

CARLSBAD, Calif. (BRAIN) — Canyon USA has added Devin Riley as program manager for bikes, parts and accessories. Riley will be responsible for managing the day-to-day bike and P&A-related project work, working with Canyon product managers at the brand's headquarters in Koblenz, Germany.

Posted December 4, 2017

WATERLOO, Wis. (BRAIN) — Joe Vadeboncoeur, who has worked at Trek for 28 years, is departing the company at the end of December. 

Posted December 4, 2017

LONGMONT, Colo. (BRAIN) — The organizer of the CrossVegas cyclocross race on Monday announced that longtime event title sponsor Clif Bar & Co. will follow the race to its new location in Reno next year, where it will be held during the week of Interbike, which also is moving to Reno.

Posted December 4, 2017
Company will connect online customers to dealers via service contracts rather than in-store fulfillment. 'The important thing is getting that customer into the store,' CEO says.
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TEMECULA, Calif. (BRAIN) — Intense Cycles on Monday launched a consumer-direct online sales program and new lower pricing aimed at helping the brand and its dealers better compete with mountain bike brands sold exclusively D2C on the internet. Intense calls it a "hybrid, IBD-centric" approach.

Posted December 1, 2017
An excerpt from the new manual.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (BRAIN) — The 12th edition of Barnett Bicycle Institute's Manual DX is a 600-page update to the existing manual, bringing the total manual size to 14,000 pages.

Posted December 1, 2017
MORGAN HILL, Calif. (BRAIN) — The Specialized Foundation is offering a one-for-one donation program on all kid's bikes sales this month. For every Specialized Riprock, Hotrock, or Hotwalk purchased in the U.S. from Dec.
Posted December 1, 2017

VENTURA, Calif. (BRAIN) — Zeitbike is now the exclusive distributor for Cycloc's bicycle storage systems and wall mounts.

Posted December 1, 2017

SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif. (BRAIN) — Fox Factory Holdings, parent company of the Fox bicycle suspension brands, as well as Race Face, Marzocchi and Easton Cycling, has acquired 80 percent of the shares of Flagship Inc., which does business as Tuscany Motor Company. Tuscany sells aftermarket packages for trucks, including modified Ford trucks repackaged as Tonka and "Special Ops" trucks.

Posted December 1, 2017

BOULDER, Colo. (BRAIN) — The National Bicycle Dealers Association announced Friday that Todd Grant's final day as president of the organization was Thursday, Nov. 30.

Posted November 30, 2017

BOULDER, Colo. (BRAIN) — March Northwest, a company led by racer and coach Shaums March, will become the owner, operator and official provider of the International Mountain Bicycling Association's Instructor Certification Program, starting in January.

Posted November 30, 2017

LYON, France (BRAIN) — Vélo Capital Partners, an investment group that has been studying the international bike market for several years, is launching a company, called véliSo, offering several technologies that combined would produce what the company calls "the world's safest bicycle."

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