Shimano American Corporation today announced a voluntary recall of a Pro mountainbike handlebar stem. It appeared that the bolts holding the front plate ...

WASHINGTON, USA - Specialized Bicycle Components Inc. announced a voluntary recall of the China made TL-83 brake levers. Earlier this year Specialized ...

W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. announced a voluntary recall of specific styles Gore Ride On low friction brake and professional brake cables as mentioned ...

Last Friday the EU rapid alert system for dangerous consumer products, RAPEX, announced the voluntary withdrawal from the market by Merida of its ...

BRUSSELS, Belgium - Safety Gate is the European Union's alert system for consumer products that show a safety risk. The system was introduced by the General Product Safety Directive of 2001. Previously known as RAPEX, Safety Gate allows rapid exchange of information among member states and the Commission about unsafe products and the measures taken by the member states to deal with that safety problem.

MEQUON, US - Yesterday Hayes announced a voluntary recall of the SunRingle hollow quick release devices. Until now the company received four reports of ...

BAD URACH, Germany - Magura recalls the first production batch of the Durin Race 80/100 (MD 80R and MD 100R) suspension forks. Magura has found faults, ...

NAGOYA, Japan (June 2) - Tsunoda Co. announced that it will recall 1.123 folding bikes due to defective frames and replace them with up-to-date models. ...

VITORIA-GASTEIZ, Spain - Bike manufacturer BH Bikes Europe S.L is one of the traditional bicycle suppliers from the Basque Country. BH stands for 'Beistegui Hermanos', which translates to 'Beistegui brothers'. The company was founded in 1909 with the production of revolver guns. 14 years later, they began manufacturing bicycles. Today, the fourth generation of the family, Javier Beistegui, is at the helm.

VILLARROBLEDO, Spain - "Somewhere in la Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, ..." - this is the beginning of the novel 'Don Quixote de la Mancha' by Spanish poet Miguel de Cervantes. Bike Europe didn't go in search of Don Quixote in the autonomous region of Castilla-La Mancha. Instead in the small town of Villarrobledo, 200 km southeast of Madrid it was time to find out what the small, custom bike manufacturer Berria Bikes S.L. has to do with Switzerland.

MALLABIA, Spain - How deeply bike manufacturer Orbea S. Coop. is rooted in its home country, visitors realise immediately on arrival: the first language is Basque - followed by English. During a visit to the company headquarters and production facility in Mallabia, Bike Europe found out what else sets this Basque bicycle manufacturer apart from its domestic and international competitors.

BORRALHA, Portugal - As part of its reshoring ambitions, the Portuguese bicycle industry association ABIMOTA invited an industry delegation from Taiwan to Águeda already in 2015. The participants were detailly informed about all possibilities of a close-to-the-market production in the EU.

WASHINGTON DC, USA - The world produced an estimated 130 million bicycles in 2007more than twice the 52 million cars produced. Bicycle and car ...

The Sharatan MTB and the Racing Diamante are Pennarola Cicli's newest frame designs. Both the design and the construction of this monocoque carbon frame ...

COLOGNE, Germany - At yesterdays ZIV press conference, Cologne Messe officially denied all rumours on changing the dates for the 2009 IFMA. Show Manager ...

BALI, Indonesia - The launch of the Global Alliance took take place in Bali, Indonesia on Monday, 10 December, as a side event to the United Nations ...

NEW YORK, USA - A fleet of 3,000 bicycles with wooden frames free for use will be the eye catcher of the new design for the 40-acre park for Governors ...

PARIS, France - The French market looks to be on the brink of an e-bike boom. In 2006 the number of e-bikes sold in France was still too small to be ...

BANGKOK, Thailand Italian tyre expert Vittoria recently opened at its Lion Tyres production facility in Thailand a new production hall. This results in ...

TIANJIN, China Dahon Bicycles, which claims to be the world leader in production of folding bicycles, on March 24 announced plans to establish a ...