All Bike articles – Page 8
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Wintersteiger enters the bike maintenance sector
Wintersteiger, the leading Austrian provider of ski maintenance equipment, has entered the growing bike category as a counter-seasonal business. After two years of market research and product development, it has launched a new Bike Services division, offering a package for bike rentals that includes automatic bike cleaning as well as ...
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Eurobike is shrinking
Physical attendance at the special Nov. 24-26 edition of the Eurobike show in Friedrichshafen will be limited to 10,000 trade-only visitors per day. Only 400 exhibitors will participate in the leading European bike show, compared with more than 1,400 in September 2019. Described by the organizers as ”The Place to ...
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ArticleWattbike to receive £11.5m in new funding
Piper, an investment firm in London, is planning to pour £11.5 million (€12.5m-$14.9m) into Wattbike, a relatively young British brand of smart stationary bikes. The deal, which may have been spurred on by Gymshark’s recent ultra-successful fund-raising, is awaiting approval from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the U.K.’s financial regulatory ...
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Nautilus introduces a leaning stationary bike
Nautilus is introducing a stationary bike that can simulate the side-to-side rocking of regular outdoor bicycles. The Bowflex VeloCore can be ridden in two modes – lean and stationary (meaning fixed) – thanks to a proprietary lock-out device, whose patent is pending. A touch screen links to the JRNY subscription ...
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E-bike sales in Europe are expected to more than double
Sales of e-bikes in Europe grew by 23 percent in 2019, and exceeded for the first time the milestone of 3 million units sold annually. E-bike sales accounted for 17 percent of total bicycle sales last year. These figures were recently announced by the Confederation of the European Bicycle Industry ...
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Engelhorn cooperates with Rose Bike
Engelhorn, the big German sports and fashion retailer based in Mannheim, and Rose Bike, the German bike company, have signed a cooperation agreement. In August, both partners will open a Rose Bike shop-in-shop inside the bike department of Engelhorn Sports’ big store in Mannheim. Catering to a growing demand for ...
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Eurobike goes hybrid
Eurobike is going for a hybrid offline/online format. It will be a purely B2B event. The physical trade show will take place in Friedrichshafen from Nov. 24 to 26 instead of September. On the other hand, Messe Friedrichshafen will hold a digital conference on Sept. 1, calling it the “Bike ...
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ArticleAccell benefits from a strong bike market
The post-Covid bike market is going strong in Europe, as indicated by a business updated released by Accell Group, although it seems that the boom is mostly affecting bicycles used for transportation rather than sport, as indicated also by a recent report by the NPD Group on the bike market ...
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Italy registers booming bike sales
Bicycle sales in Italy have jumped by 60 percent since bicycle shops reopened after the lockdown on May 6, as compared to the same period of 2019. According to data released on June 9 by Ancma (Associazione Nazionale Ciclo Motociclo Accessori), the sector’s trade association, Italians bought 540,000 units in ...
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Schöffel diversifies into bikewear
Schöffel, which has been focusing on outdoor and ski clothing, is making its entry into the bicycle clothing sector with a dedicated collection for spring/summer 2021. Comprising 46 items for men and women, and divided into three segments – Gravel, Trail and Travel – it was developed by the German ...
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Swedish crash test of bike helmets yields strange results
Hövding was rated as the best bike “helmet” based on a series of crash tests conducted by a Swedish insurance company, Folksam. The second best one was a relatively cheap MIPS helmet from Biltema, a chain of car accessories. While Hövding’s head cover, called the Chief, is not really a ...
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Dorel rides well on higher demand for bikes
Dorel Sports, the bike division of Dorel Industries, is one of the few businesses that managed to grow through the pandemic. It registered revenues of $188.2 million for the first quarter, representing a 2.0 percent increase from the same quarter a year earlier, driven by strong performances at the Cycling ...
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Eurobike postponed, altered
As Germany has a ban on major events until Aug. 29, logistics will preclude opening the Eurobike show on schedule, just two days later, to run Sept. 2-5. Instead, there will be a one-off Eurobike Special show – a “pure B2B concept,” not open to the public – on Nov. ...
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Bikester opens store in Stockholm
Bikester opened its first brick-and-mortar Nordic shop in Stockholm on March 13. The 725-square-metre store is located at Uddvägen 5 in the Sickla shopping district. Internetstores, the German-based online retailer of bike and outdoor products which is Bikester’s parent company, said that the new physical store is part of the ...
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Bike Europe has a new senior editor
Bike Europe, the Dutch trade magazine, hired Rosie Burgin as senior editor last month. Burgin – who has also worked for Rosegarden Studios and 3 Circles Media – was formerly an editor at Reed Business Information and, most recently, at the agricultural publisher Misset. At Bike Europe she is succeeding ...
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Strong European e-bikes sales take Giant to record highs
The Giant Group reported a 5.3 percent increase in revenues to a record 63,449 million New Taiwan dollars (€1.9bn-$2.1bn) in 2019, boosted by the rising popularity of e-bikes, especially in Europe, where sales gained about 13 percent to NT$ 18,667 million (€571.6m-$617.4m). Collectively, the Taiwanese bike manufacturer’s brands - Cadex, ...
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Amplifi, the German brand for snow, bike and outdoor protectors...
Amplifi, the German brand for snow, bike and outdoor protectors and accessories based in Oberstdorf, has brought in a new sales team for Austria, Germany and Benelux, starting with products for autumn/winter 2020/21. Amplifi's move is said to be meant to ensure the best possible service for customers, both B2B ...
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Bookman, a Swedish company that offers functional headlights, bike lights...
Bookman, a Swedish company that offers functional headlights, bike lights and reflectors under the Bookman Urban Visibility label, has received an injection of SEK3.5 million (€330,000-$370,000) from three Swedish investors including Stefan Ytterborn, the founder of Poc Sweden. Founded in 2011 in Stockholm by Victor Kabo and David Axelsson, Bookman ...
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Selle Royal, the leading Italian supplier of bike saddles, has...
Selle Royal, the leading Italian supplier of bike saddles, has mandated UBS to help find a financial partner to accelerate its growth. The company is prepared to review preliminary offers in mid-February. Founded by the Bigolin family 60 years ago, Selle Royal sells saddles and other bike accessories under four ...
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Pon Bike has acquired Urban Arrow, a Dutch brand of...
Pon Bike has acquired Urban Arrow, a Dutch brand of electric cargo bikes. Pon has disclosed no financial details about the acquisition. Founded in Amsterdam in 2010 by Jorrit Kreek and Gerald van Weel, Urban Arrow operates in 20 countries and employs a staff of 60 at its headquarters and ...
