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Posted October 23, 2025

WASHINGTON (BRAIN) — The Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a warning to stop using Favoto bike helmets because they violate safety requirements for positional stability, certification, and labeling.

Posted October 23, 2025

BUCHA, Ukraine (BRAIN) — The Ukraine Bicycle Project was founded 25 years ago and eventually provided locally manufactured and sourced city bikes for transportation here. When Russia invaded in 2022, priorities changed somewhat but the project's determination to continue manufacturing and providing bikes never wavered.

Posted October 22, 2025

TAIPEI, Taiwan (BRAIN) — Taiwan's three publicly traded bike factories are reporting their sales were down in September, year-over-year, although Ideal Bike, the smallest of the three, recorded sales closer to flat. 

Posted October 22, 2025

DENVER (BRAIN) — Strava has dropped the patent infringement lawsuit it filed against Garmin 20 days ago.

Posted October 22, 2025

STOCKHOLM (BRAIN) — Thule Group's net sales rose 7.9% year-over-year in the third quarter aided by last year's Quad Lock acquisition. Organically, sales declined 4%.

Posted October 22, 2025

STOCKHOLM (BRAIN) — MIPS third-quarter net sales increased 10% year-over-year despite the helmet technology brand saying tariffs in the U.S. market required raising prices to manage costs.

Posted October 22, 2025

FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif. (BRAIN) — Saddle is a platform that lets bike owners track their rides, set maintenance schedules, book service appointments, and even set boundaries for kids rides.

Posted October 21, 2025

UTICA, N.Y. — In a time of tariffs, July’s announcement that eBliss Global will open an e-bike factory in this upstate city garnered considerable mainstream media attention.

Posted October 20, 2025

HASTINGS, United Kingdom (BRAIN) — A Dublin-based private-equity firm announced Monday the acquisition of Whyte Bikes Ltd. and that the existing management team will remain.

Posted October 17, 2025
UPDATED with information about a celebration of Anderson's life.

SAN ANTONIO (BRAIN) — Longtime BMX veteran Bernie Anderson, who helped establish and grow the USA BMX organization, died Tuesday. He was 93.

Posted October 17, 2025

WASHINGTON (BRAIN) — Nearly two thousand VAAST A/1 bicycles and frames are being recalled because of a hairline fracture that can develop near a weld and cause the tubes to separate.

Posted October 17, 2025

GUNNISON, Utah (BRAIN) — When CSS Composites announced its closing and asset liquidation earlier this month, left unsaid was what would happen with customer service and warranty claims. CSS sold under its own brand Forge+Bond and was an OEM carbon rim supplier.

Posted October 15, 2025

TAICHUNG, Taiwan (BRAIN) — Giant Group is developing a plan to reimburse current migrant workers at its factories for recruitment fees they paid prior to Jan. 1, 2025, when the company began paying its current workers' recruitment fees.

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