BEAVERTON, OR/USA (12 May 2000)--Athletic shoe and apparel (including bikewear) giant Nike Inc. is diversifying into hi-tech sports gear for athletes. ...

HANOI, Vietnam (11 May 2000)--According to an AP report, Vietnamese officials, bombarded by complaints from overseas investors, has taken some promising ...

HONG KONG, China (8 May 2000)--Late last week more than a few people opened up an e-mail named 'I Love You' (flattered, no doubt) and immediately ...

KOSICE, Slovakia (10 April 2000)-Italian crankset and bottom bracket producer Ofmega is moving its steel and plastic crankset assembly and finishing to ...

MEXICO CITY, Mexico (24 March 2000)--The European Union and Mexico have signed a trade agreement that is comparable to the North American Free Trade ...

ATHENS, Greece (9 March 2000)--According to Greece's Minister of Finance Papantoniou, after six years of making adjustments the country is now ready to ...

FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany (8 March 2000)--In a reaction to Shimano's decision to visit only IFMA this year (and only Eurobike in 2001), as well as to the ...

MILAN, Italy (18 February 2000)--Italian mountain bike magazine Tutto Mountain Bike has changed addresses. The editorial team can now be reached at ...

DAYTON, OH/USA (11 February 2000)--Huffy Corporation, seller of the Huffy mass-market brand of bikes, suffered a net loss of US$33.3 million for the ...

LAGUNA BEACH, CA/USA (26 January 2000)--The organizers of the Interbike International Bicycle Expo have announced a major floorplan change. For the 2000 ...

DETROIT, MI/USA (13 January 2000) -- Due to lack of consumer interest, General Motors has stopped production of its EV1 electric car. According to GM ...

BRUSSELS, Belgium--The German research agency DIW predicts that the 11 so-called euro countries (those EU countries participating in the new currency ...

BRUSSELS, Belgium (November 26) - The current EU scheme of Generalized Tariff Preferences (GSP) will end on December 31, 2001. It is based on Regulation ...

NUNSPEET, Netherlands (November 15) - Shimano Europe has updated its website http://www.shimano-europe.com with all the new hardware as well as ...

LONDON, UK (November 19) - The UK has a bicycle show again in the nation's capital. The Business Design Centre launched The International Cycle Show ...

NUNSPEET, Netherlands (November 5) - Shimano recently started the first test production runs of 3-speed hub gears in its factory in Singapore. The ...

BRUSSELS, Belgium (October 24) - The European Commission has announced the imposition of an 11.3% dumping duty on Shimano hub gears imported from Japan. ...

BRUSSELS, Belgium - So far, the Belgian national bicycle exhibition Expo-Velo took place every two years in January. Last year in October, that event ...

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands Last Friday, May 19, Drs. Paul Burger, MD of Halfords NL announced a full scale attack on the Dutch bike market: That will ...

HANOI, Vietnam - Mexico is considering launching legal action against Vietnamese footwear producers for allegedly dumping shoes on the Mexican market, ...