Hong Kong Named World's Freest Economy
WASHINGTON, USA (April 26) - Hong Kong has the world' freest economy, followed by Singapore and New Zealand, the Cato Institute reported in an annual ...
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K2 Bikes Pulls Out Of German Market
KLOSTERS, Switzerland (April 23) - K2 Bikes is pulling out of the German market. According to Mark Landsaat, European technical manager and contact ...
Universal Takes Over Muddy Fox Brandname
BASILDON, UK (March 27) - Universal Cycles PLC has taken over the rights to use the Muddy Fox brandname for bicycles and accessories. UKs largest ...
EDCO OUT
COUVET, Switzerland (9 march) - EDCO Engineering S.A. (Eduard Dubied & Co.), makers of fine componentry, have declared bancruptcy. No details have ...
Weissflog left Sram
Uwe Weissflog, marketing communications manager at Sram-Europe, left the Amersfoort-based subsidiary of the US-Amercian bicycle component maker at the ...
Cycleurope Regroups Production
ROMILLY, France (16 January) - Cycleurope continues its restructuration. In the first round, Peugeot lost its leading position in favor of Bianchi. Now ...
BMD Activities Continue
KOLIN, CZ (March 27) - As we reported last week on this website, BMD (Best Machine Development bv) in Dutch Zuidoost Beemster was declared bankrupt. ...
REMARKABLE BRAND LOYALTY FROM UNION
NIEUWLEUSEN, Netherlands (16 january) - Though Dutch Union bicycles (65.000 units) may seem no more than a crumb on world scale, the restart after ...
UCI Approves Jetstream Forks
BARBENGO/LAUSANNE, Switzerland - (November 21th) Oval Concepts announces today that the UCI (International Cycling Union) has formally approved their ...
Sram Shrugs Shimano's Injunction
AMERSFOORT, Netherlands (November 14th) - On November 13th 2003 the Munich District Court set aside Shimano's preliminary injunction against SRAM's ...
Sad News From Cloppenburg
CLOPPENBURG, Germany (November 12th) - The German bike industry has lost one of its most well known members. Heinz Kalkhoff, not only the Kalkhoff ...
EBMA Accuses China of Renewed Dumping Circumvention Schemes
PARIS, France (November 5) - Brian Montgomery, chairman of the EBMA cautions against renewed A+B container schemes from China. Although there are ...
2-RAD Zürich - Swiss-Moto
ZÜRICH, Switzerland ( October 3rd) - The well known 'Züricher 2-Rad' show will change form. It was decided to have a bi-annual show for bicycles and ...
Buzaglo Lands Dahon
WEESP, Netherlands (September 30) - Buzaglo is to be the new importer for Dahon folding bicycles in the BeNeLux countries. Joshua Hon, the VP of Dahon ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Belgian Winner for 2003 Shimano Cycling Concept Award
NUNSPEET, The Netherlands (February 13) - The 2003 Shimano Cycling Concept Award has been won by the Belgian environmental organisation 'Bond Beter ...
Poisons in Electrical Appliances
MAARSSEN, Netherlands - The EU has recently announced new measures to prevent toxic substances to enter the environment. These substances are: lead, ...
Huffy Corporation Sells Non-Core Business Assets
BIKE EUROPE: MIAMISBURG, US (November 24) - HUFFY CORPORATION has filed motions seeking approval from the Bankruptcy Court to sell certain assets of its ...