All Bike & eBike articles – Page 64
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ArticleNPD study evaluates impact of Covid-19 on different distribution channels
U.S. consulting group NPD has released its latest study on the impact of the pandemic on the outdoor retail market. NPD collects its point-of-sale data from more than 600,000 retail locations, including more than 1,450 specialty sporting goods stores, as well as e-commerce and mobile platforms, and maintains offices in ...
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MTB World Cup event in Maribor postponed to August
The season-opening downhill races of the 2021 Mercedez-Benz UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, which were scheduled to take place in Maribor, Slovenia, on April 24-25, have been postponed in connection with the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. As reported by insidethegames.biz, a request to postpone the event was made by local health ...
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News briefsTime Bicycles selects distributor for Iberia and Benelux
Following Cardinal Cycling Group’s acquisition of the Time Bicycles business and composites factory from the Rossignol Group last month, Time Bicycles has announced that Bikemotiv will be its exclusive distributor for bicycles and framesets for Spain, Portugal, Andorra, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg. As reported earlier, the Time ...
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News briefsPoison Bikes under new ownership
German DTC bicycle supplier Poison Bikes has a new owner. Company founder, owner and previously sole managing director Hans Werner Theisen has sold his bicycle manufactory to entrepreneur Thomas Wiesel for an undisclosed amount. Theisen will remain active in the company and run the business together with Wiesel. Poison Bikes ...
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News briefsHartje expands Czech e-bike assembly activities
In 2017, German bicycle wholesaler, importer and supplier Hermann Hartje started assembling e-bikes from its own brand portfolio in the Czech Republic with a total of 25 employees. This assembly operation has now moved from a rented site to a new building created by Hartje. The Czech subsidiary Hartje e-factory ...
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ArticleCycling demand boosts Dorel Sports
Dorel Sports, Dorel Industries’ sports segment whose brands include Cannondale, Schwinn, GT, Mongoose, Caloi and IronHorse, saw its revenues increase by 13.8 percent year-on-year to $265.3 million in the fourth quarter, or by 15.9 percent in constant currencies. This marks the seventh consecutive quarter of revenue growth for Dorel Sports, ...
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News briefsBrand relaunch at Fazua
Source: Fazua With a brand relaunch, e-bike drive manufacturer Fazua opens a new chapter to its newly launched umbrella theme of “Energy Bikes.” According to the German company, the rapidly growing number of sportive cyclists will find Energy Bikes “the optimal natural support in every category.” With ...
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Accell Group plans to nominate two new supervisory board members
Accell Group, Europe’s leading premium bicycle supplier, has announced that its supervisory board intends to nominate Luc Volatier and Eugénie van Wiechen as new members. Following their nomination, the new board members will be appointed at the annual general meeting on April 21 for a period of four years until ...
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News briefsProwinter 2021 goes digital
After a virtual-only edition in 2020 because of the coronavirus, Prowinter, the Italian B2B event for mountain resort operators, is going digital again this year for the same reason. Prowinter Digital 2021, organized by Fiera Bolzano/Messe Bozen, will be held on April 12. Registration for the virtual show is free ...
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ArticleZIV publishes data on German bicycle market 2020
The German Bicycle Industry Association (ZIV) released some key figures on the prospering German bicycle and e-bike market 2020 on March 10. According to managing director Ernst Brust, the past year was an unprecedented one for the German and international bicycle sector and for the bicycle industry as a whole: ...
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Bollé signs new partnerships in pro and am cycling
Bollé Brands announced a new series of sponsorship deals in the professional and amateur cycling sectors. The brand will sponsor and equip the professional team B&B Hotels p/b KTM (BBK) with both helmets and sunglasses, a premiere in its history. BBK is one of the 22 teams selected to participate ...
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News briefsManagement buy-out at Weldtite Products
On March 2, British bicycle care and lubricants manufacturer Weldtite Products Limited was sold for an undisclosed amount in a management buy-out (MBO) led by current managing director, Paul Davis. Davis acquired the majority of Weldtite’s shares from the Bennett-Baggs family, which had owned the company, originally founded in the ...
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News briefsZwift appoints two new high-profile board members
Global virtual cycling and running training platform Zwift has confirmed the appointment of Patrick Pichette and Celeste Burgoyne to its board of directors. The appointments follow the U.S.-based provider’s recent Series C funding round. According to Eric Min, co-founder and CEO of Zwift, Pichette and Burgoyne bring a wealth of ...
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ArticleU.S. bike dealers association supports The Big Gear Show
Last year, the organizers of the new U.S. trade show The Big Gear Show (BGS) had to cancel its premiere due to Corona and postpone it to this year – with some major changes: The B2B2C (indoor) show originally planned for Salt Lake City, Utah, has become an invite-only B2B ...
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ArticleFirst Benno e-bikes in use for African pilot projects
Since the end of January, three cargo bikes from the U.S. e-bike company Benno Bikes have been in solar power use in the West African country of Benin. As part of a mobility pilot project, Ibee Studer, a Swiss industrial engineering firm specializing in the development, financing and operation of ...
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Buff is a sponsor of the Tour of Flanders
Buff has joined for the first time the sponsor roster of the Tour of Flanders, the iconic road cycling race that is part of the UCI World Tour. This year’s edition of the Tour of Flanders is scheduled to take place on Sept. 18, after being postponed from the original ...
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News briefsSimplon prepares for further growth by expanding facilities
Austria’s second-largest bicycle producer, Simplon Fahrrad, has set the course for further growth: the company’s parent, Simplon Holding, has just acquired a property formerly owned by Vorwerk Austria, only 90 meters from Simplon’s premises. It will be handed over on April 1, 2021. No details were given about the purchase ...
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ArticleWill IAA Mobility become the new bicycle platform?
With its completely revised concept as a comprehensive show for mobility providers, the new IAA Mobility in Munich also aims to offer the bicycle segment an attractive platform. Like IAA in Frankfurt in the past, IAA Mobility under the aegis of Messe München will primarily be a B2C event. To ...
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ArticleAccell reports strong results, headed by Europe
The post-Covid boom in the bicycle sector fuelled the revenues of Accell Group in 2020, which soared by 17.0 percent organically from the previous year to €1,296 million, thanks mainly to sustained high demand for bicycles, parts and accessories across Europe. The results do not include the group’s former operations ...
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News briefsPorsche presents first serial-produced e-bikes
Like many other automakers, the upscale German brand Porsche is now expanding its e-mobility offerings with two first serial-produced e-bikes. Once again, industry expert and Rotwild maker ADP Engineering was on hand as a development partner. Both e-bike models are being launched under the “Porsche E-Mobility, Extended” umbrella and are ...
