Category: Bicycle Industry
The place to learn some inside scoop about the Tour de France on Saturday was inside the noisy former seaplane hangar that hosted the 2007 Group Health Seattle International Bicycle Expo.
Cycling commentator and former pro Frankie Andreu (left) — himself a veteran on nine Tour pelotons — said the 2006 Tour de France was one of the “most amazing” he'd ever seen, because he never knew what was going to happen next.
That uncertainty continues to this day, as Andreu says he can't guess what the future holds for Tour winner Floyd Landis, who prepares to answer doping charges at an administrative hearing in May.
Andreu noted that Landis and his defense team have pointed to “a lot of inaccuracies” at the French lab that analyzed the urine samples that led to the doping accusations. But, “we've only heard from one side,” he said. He wants to wait to hear from the other side — the anti-doping agency and its witnesses — before he decides about the case. …
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Here's good news for us in the Pacific Northwest. The North American Handmade Bicycle Show is heading to Portland in 2008.
The show, which just wrapped up its three-day stand San Jose on Sunday, is a celebration of the best frame designers and builders in the world. Most of the 70 handmade frame makers came from the US and Canada this year.
The 2008 show, scheduled for March 7-10 at the Oregon Convention Center, will be another relocation for the annual event, conceived by Don Walker, a framebuilder himself. It was held in Houston in 2005, then moved to the Bay Area for the past two years …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/03/05/handmade-bicycle-show-comes-to-portland-in-2008/
The BMX bike company founded by one of the sports' prinicipal competitors is recalling 11,000 bikes because of faulty fork welds.
The Carlsbad, California-based MirraCo LLC bicycle company, founded by X-Games gold medal winner Dave Mirra, is making the recall in conjuction with the US Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Consumers should stop riding the bicycles immediately and take them to a MirraCo dealer for inspection and possible fork replacement. The bikes in question were sold between November 2006 and January 2007. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/02/28/bmx-bike-maker-recalls-11000-bicycles/
And the envelope, please.
Boulder Sports Research has announced its list of the top 100 specialty bicycle shops in the US. The best out of 5,100 retailers.
But first, let's make it understood that the voting was done by sales representatives from 7 leading bike makers and 5 accessory makers. That means your favorite, dusty, hole-in-the-wall bike shop might not have made the list. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/02/18/top-100-specialty-bike-retailers-for-2007/
While billionaire Richard Branson pledges $25 million to anyone figures out way to remove a billon tons of CO2 from the atmosphere annually, bicycle maker Dahon is making sure its employees don't leave carbon footprints on the way to work.
Bicycle Retailer reports that one way the California-based foldable bike manufacturer is going carbon-neutral is by offering free bikes to its workers.
It works like this: Any worker who rides a bike to work three times a week gets a free bike, as does as any employee who combines a commute by mass transit and a bike ride. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/02/12/dahon-pushing-employees-onto-bicycles/
You can turn your steel, carbon fiber, aluminum or titanium bicycle into a “woody” with the addition of these wooden fenders.
Cody Davis of Bend, Oregon, has been making these wooden bike fenders in his garage for about three years now after getting involved in furniture wood working just for fun.
I stumbled across his website — Woody's Custom Cycling Fenders — recently and e-mailed him to learn more about how he got into it and how his fenders are made ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/01/25/wooden-bicycle-fenders/
Apparently there was more for bicycling at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this past week than a Motorola CEO pedaling around on a yellow bike to sell cell phone chargers.
In a weekend wrap-up, a couple of Seattle Times reporters told about the helmet camera, a PCGamer bike and iPod bicycle speakers they stumpled across at the event.
Oregon Scientific had the ATC2K Waterproof ActionCamera (above, not on bike helmet). The half-pound camera …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/01/14/more-bicycle-stuff-at-consumer-electronics-show/
A brake problem with some 2007 model year bicycles prompted Cannondale Bicycle Corp. to recall about 700 bikes, according to the US Consumer Product Safety Commission.
(Update: Cannondale asserts the number of bicycles “recalled” at 145. Although the number of bikes with the flaw was 700, the problem was caught before most of the bikes made it out the door, and the other affected bikes remained at the warehouse. Cannondale also told Bicycle Retailer and Industry News that the company or retailers have contacted all the customers.)
Apparently the front brake can fail; no injuries have been reported. The bikes sold for between $3,200 and $4,500 …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/01/11/cannondale-recalls-700-bicycles-according-to-cpsc-more-like-145-says-the-company/
That bike-mounted cell phone recharger that Motorola CEO Ed Zander announced a couple of days ago at Consumer Electronics Show (CES) isn't the first one to pedal down the road.
A Sweden-based company named Ikon Global Ltd. marketed a cell phone battery recharger named Pedal & Power up until a year or so ago, but has now apparently dropped off the face of the Internet.
The invention by Kieron Loy received write-ups in TreeHugger, Wireless Business and Technology, Engadget, and BikeBiz (back in September 2000) ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/01/10/an-earlier-bicycle-operated-cell-phone-charger/
I'd say this is definitely a bicycle used as a decoration.
Motorola CEO Ed Zander rode this yellow comfort bike onto the stage for his keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas on Monday.
Was it left over from Interbike in September? Maybe. The boss of the $35 billion electronics giant (2005) wanted to make the point that digital content is portable, even in countries that rely mostly on bicycle transportation.
(Update: Motorola plans to sell a bicycle-mounted cellphone charger that will broaden its cellphone markets to developing countries.)…
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/01/08/ces-bicycle-as-decoration-or-function/
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