The 2006 Austrian bike market took delivery of about 390,000 bicycles. Statistik Austria KTM Fahrrad Simplon

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 ...

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 ...

MAARSSEN, The Netherlands This weeks rumour is also about France. Not only Cycleurope is faced with problems, the same goes for some wholesalers ...

CHESSINGTON, UK After recently opened stores in the USA, Specialized is to open in November its first concept store in Europe. The Specialized store ...

HELSINKI, Finland - A squirrel scampered into the bicycle wheel of an unlucky Finnish opera singer, causing him to fall, knock himself out and break his ...

MAARSSEN, Netherlands - French Go Sport seems to be getting a better grip on their finances. While they reported a net loss of 9.3 million over the ...

BRUSSELS, Belgium - The EU Commission authorised lower VAT rates for a number of labour-intensive services - most notably, house renovation and domestic ...

WILMINGTON, US - Production of an innovative DuPont material, offering industry and consumers performance breakthroughs in a range of rubber-based ...

SCHWAEBISCH GMUEND, Germany - Following the successful North American Handmade Bicycle Show being held last year for the fourth time, some people in ...

MANITOBA, Canada - The decision was made by the Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT) in December of 2007 after an exhaustive review. In ...

WARSAW, Poland - Warsaw's authorities are seriously looking into the idea of introducing a public bike rental system in Poland's Capital. Several ...

GENT, Belgium - Next September 16th ETRA will organize a pedelec, bicycle, electric PTWs, components and accessories show on the esplanade of the ...

MOSCOW, Russia - The future of bicycle (and car) tyre manufacturer Vredestein has been assured for the years to come. During the past months ...

NUNSPEET, The Netherlands - Today Shimano is worldwide introducing the new Dura-Ace 7900 series that sets a new benchmark in top-level road racing ...

PARIS, France - A new sporting goods retail giant has just been created in China. The company is called USG Sports and will compete with Decathlon, ...

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands - IKEA started selling bikes in The Netherlands recently. For some years it's rumoured that the furniture giant will turn to ...

DARMSTADT, Germany - Last Saturday, Riese & Mueller, launched a new range of pedelecs. "After we decided to enter this rapidly growing market it took us ...

UPPSALA, Sweden - Shimano Europe Holding BV will handle the warehouse facilities of Shimano Nordic Cycle (Sweden, Norway and Finland) through its ...

BRUSSELS, Belgium - In the framework of the European Commissions Green Week, ETRA offers the bike industry the opportunity to present (electric) ...