Velo-City 2003 Opens in Grand Style
PARIS, France - (September 26) Never before was the venue for a bicycle conference so grand…the delegates were received by the Major of Paris Bertrand ...
Met Opts for Trek
LONDON, UK (September 24) - The London Metropolitan police has opted for Trek patrol bikes. The first 6 Trek 6500's will be handed to the Met today at ...
Roc d'Azur Sponsors Forests
FREJUS, France - (September 24) The French bike show Roc d'Azur annually held in the beautiful southern region of France has an extra theme this year. ...
Checco Moser Returns
MILAN, Italy (September 18) - 20 years ago Franceso 'Checco' Moser shattered the world hour record, 25 years ago he founded his company Cicli Moser and ...
A Great Italian Job
MILAN, Italy (September 18) - Not only Colnago but also DeRosa celebrate their 50th anniversary this year. The EICMA show is the platform to launch the ...
Cannondale Motorcycles To Be Made in Taiwan
US-TAIWAN (September 16) - The deal seems done: Dinli Industrial Company Ltd. from Taiwan has purchased the 'intellectual property' of the Cannondale ...
Impressive Results for Eurobike
FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany (September 2) - The 12th Eurobike show, which closed on Sunday August 31, has some very good results. Messe Friedrichshafen ...
BICO Reopened Warehouse
VERL, Germany (August 22) - Oliver Schill, BICO's new general manager, informed Bike Europe that the warehouse of the German dealer cooperative opened ...
Bad News For Kynast
QUACKENBRUECK, Germany (September 16) - End of September is end of the road for German Kynast - according to staff attending the IFMA. No new investors ...
Shimano Launches Golf Clubs on EU Market
NUNSPEET, Netherlands (September 15) - Already available in Japan for 3 years; Shimano's golf clubs are available as of now in Europe. For now Shimano ...
BICO and Sport 2000
COLOGNE, Germany (September 14) - Bico members have accepted the cooperation with Sport 2000 with 'very little' counter voters. The chairman states that ...
Bike Totaal Transformed into Limited Company
AMERSFOORT, Holland (September 8) - Dutch 'Bike Totaal' has recently been transformed into a limited company (BV). After two and a half years of ...
BICO Courts Sport 2000
MAINHAUSEN/VERL, Germany (August 25) - Struggling German dealer cooperative BICO announces a close cooperation with Ariston-Nord-West-Ring -anwr-group ...
Latest on Shimano Versus SRAM
AMERSFOORT, NUNSPEET, Netherlands (September 2) - After the first court case, dealing with the infringement of Shimano patents on the 'Hyper Glide' ...
Chainless Bikes
BRISTOL, UK (September 12) - No new idea by any means but another go at a tried concept. As early as 1890 the first shaft-drive bike was built in France ...
Good Weather Brings Good Business in Germany
BIELEFELD, Germany (August 18) - VDZ, the German association for independent bicycle dealers (IBDs), reports that bike business is picking up again in ...
The Bicycle Goes to War! (Again.....)
US - Gen.Wesley K. Clark, former NATO supreme commander and CNN military analyst who is probably somewhere in the race for the 2004 US-elections, has ...
Court Decision Allows SRAM To Sell Cassettes in Germany
AMERSFOORT, Netherlands (September 8) - Last Friday the Supreme District Court of Munich granted SRAM's request for a Stay of Execution in the cassette ...