HONDA To Import Motorcycles From India
TOKYO, Japan (24 January) - Honda president Hiroyuki Yoshino announced that Honda will import cheap motorcycles for the Japanese home market from its ...
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5th Bicycle Congress Kicks Off German Bicycle Season
BERLIN, Germany (18 January) - At this year's Fifth Bicycle Congress in Bremen the entire German bicycle industry and trade will meet for the first time ...
Dutch Bike Makers Face Huge Fines
THE HAGUE, The Netherlands (December 3) - Dutch Competition Authority NMa published a report, in which the biggest bike makers in Holland are accused of ...
Planet Fun to Launch P&A Arm Add-One
PERIGNY, France (November 5) - As business is struggling in heavy economic weather, the French bike maker Planet Fun decided to launch a Parts & ...
Trek Talks to Villiger about Take Over
BUTTISHOLZ, Switzerland (October 28) - Trek is currently negotiating with the bicycle division of Swiss Villiger Soehne AG about a possible take over. ...
Masturbation?
LONDON, UK (September 18) - When the Fifth Motoring Directive of the EU was published in Britain (the Directive deems a motor driver at fault in any ...
Halfords UK Acquired by CVC Capital Partners
LONDON, UK (July 26) - British bicycle & car parts chain Halfords has been acquired by CVC Capital Partners from drugstore chain Boots Company plc. ...
Exal to Unite Schuermann and Alesa
HOOGSTRATEN, Belgium (July 9) - Renowned rim manufacturer Alesa Belgium, who filed for bankruptcy last May, will be brought back to life. Together with ...
Accell's Chairman Calms Down Dutch Staff
TÓSZEG, Hungary (April 25) - Dutch Accell Group's Employees Council reacted surprisingly astonished on the report on this web page about possible ...
Dutch NMA Fines Trade Organisations
MAARSSEN, Netherlands ( November 25th) - The Dutch NMA, a government agency responsible for fair trade, has slapped fines on two of the largest bicycle ...
Vuelta, by Rodi
AVEIRO, Portugal (November 12) - In the October issue of Bike Europe, we announced the joint venture between Büchel components and mr. Moreno Fioravanti ...
Fox Forks not (En)durable
HEERENBERG, Netherlands (October 30) - A recall for Specialized Enduro 2004 models. The bikes equipped with Fox Talas forks have been specced' with ...
Mobile Giant
LELYSTAD, Netherlands (October 23rd) - T-Mobile, the former 'Deutsche Telecom' has not only switched from Pinarello bikes to Giant: they also swapped ...
Spinning a Good Yarn
MALDEN, US (October 16th) - Aaron Feuerstein the CEO of Malden Mills, the inventor and major producer of fleece material seems to have survived his ...
No FietsRAI but FietsVAK in Holland
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (October 6) - The FietsRAI, Holland's' bicycle show will not be held in 2004. It will be replaced by FietsVAK; a trade show on a ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Bico: Trade Places
VERL, Germany (June 17) - Symptoms of the Bico restructuring are filtering through: mr. Lothar Traphöner, managing director of Bico before Conrad Greif, ...