ATRAN to Close, ATRAN Velo to Open
FALKENBERG, Sweden (Mar 22) Swedish Atran AB will close its business this spring, but will continue under the name of Atran Velo AB. The company will ...
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Nude Bicycle Race Called off Due to Lack of Helmets
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (Mar 16) - The mayor of a New Zealand town wants a nude cycling race to be called off - because the participants won't be ...
Electric vehicles Rev Up
NEW DELHI, India - The Ultra Motor Company (UMC), committed to sustainable development, is working a large programme to get Indians on light electric ...
Honda World Production Record
TOKIO, Japan (Feb 28) - One of the most significant milestones in history went by without fanfare when total worldwide production of Honda's Super Cub ...
New Congestion Charge in Stockholm Reduces Traffic by 25%
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - The first day of the City of Stockholm's congestion charging experiment was heralded as a great success, having reduced congestion ...
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MUENSTER, Germany After a period of loosing market share at the end of the nineties, the historic German brand Trelock is working on a comeback. Since ...
Congress on CEN Standards
BRUSSELS, Belgium (Feb 15) - A milestone in the origin of new EU safety standards for bicycles: an explicatory congress organized by Colibi/coliped gave ...
Handmade Bicycle Show in San Jose
SAN JOSE, US (Mar 3) - The North American Handmade Bicycle Show is a show all about the independent bicycle framebuilder, and other small companies that ...
Specialized Opens New Marketing Headquarters Central Europe
HOLZKIRCHEN-FÖCHING, Germany (Feb 8) - Specialized founder and president Mike Sinyard and company representative Ned Overend presented a book on the ...
China Cycle 2006: Fight for Space!
SHANGHAI, China (Jan 2) - The 2005 version of China Cycle was a huge succes: 960 exhibitors shared 80,000 square metres, 3800 booths and more than ...
<b>Czech Republic 2006:</b> Export Breaking Barriers
With most Czech families now owning a car, the bicycle must make an effort to win back lost ground. The Czech bike industry once was a lot bigger than ...
US Bicycle Conference Opens Registration
SAN DIEGO, USA - The elimination of dumping & import tariffs on Bike products is one of the topics that will be addressed at the upcoming 11th edition ...
London Wants 80,000 Rental Bikes
LONDON, United Kingdom - The City Council of the UK capital has revealed an ambitious scheme to stimulate the use of bikes. Mayor Ken Livingstone has ...
<b>Spain 2006:</b> New City Bike Trend To Drive Sales
MADRID, Spain - Spain is experiencing a new trend that could help sales for years to come. The growth is gradual, but city and folding bikes are finally ...
French Rental Bikes Ride the World
PARIS, France - The Vlorution was launched on July 15th last summer and is conquering the world. The concept of implementing a wide spread bike rental ...
ZEG and French Veloland Partner
COLOGNE, Germany - German retail organization ZEG and the French dealers buying group Veloland International entered into a partnership. It will open ...
<b>Austria 2006:</b> No big changes in bike sales
The 2006 Austrian bike market took delivery of about 390,000 bicycles. Statistik Austria KTM Fahrrad Simplon
New Shop Formula in France: Mondovelo
PARIS, France Sport 2000 has launched a new bicycle shop formula in France: Mondovelo. The new chain is starting with 10 outlets of which eight are ...
Best-ever Interbike
LAS VEGAS, USA The 2006 jubilee edition of Interbike was the largest-ever, both in surface, brands on display and a larger attendance than last year, a ...
Rumour of the Week
MAARSSEN, The Netherlands This weeks rumour is also about France. Not only Cycleurope is faced with problems, the same goes for some wholesalers ...