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TAIPEI, Taiwan (BRAIN)—Specialized Bicycles has a secret ambassador stashed in Asia. They call him “Bob-boo” or “Big Ring Bob” and he’s treated more like family than a customer.
Bob Margevicius, a vice-president at Specialized who currently resides in New Zealand, was the only representative from an American company to join the A-Team on its 11-day Tour de Taiwan. And he didn’t disappoint the 32 A-Team members. As he told them, “It’s an honor to be on this ride with you.”
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Topic: Events
05/14/2008 10:37 AM MDT
MORGAN HILL, CA (BRAIN)—Camelbak's vice president of research and development Robert Choi is no longer with the company.
After 10 years heading up Camelbak's research and development department, Choi left along with designer Barley Forsman, who was Choi's right hand man at Camelbak, according to Choi.
Both Choi and Forsman are now with Specialized. Choi is director of equipment/research and development, while Forsman is design manager.
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Topic: People
05/13/2008 2:06 PM MDT
BOULDER, CO (BRAIN)—Leisure Trends Group, a full service market research company, hopes to fill a major gap in bicycle industry retail sales data.
The Boulder, Colorado-based company is working toward building a retail panel of independent bicycle dealers who will provide monthly sales data from their point-of-sale systems. It hopes to release its first reports at the end of the year.
“We’ve been looking at the bicycle industry for a long time,” said Jason Gee, dir...read more
Topic: Studies
05/13/2008 1:57 PM MDT
SANTA FE, NM (BRAIN)—In May of 1993 two bike industry guys got together and decided to start a parts and service company in Ashland, Oregon. Unlike most distributors at the time, BTI chose to focus on one aspect of the market and to do it well—bicycle suspension components.
“We didn’t anticipate being the company we are today, in the beginning we just wanted to be the best distributor of suspension products,” said Andrew Wright, BTI’s president, who co-founded the company with Pr...read more
Topic: Distributor News
05/13/2008 1:46 PM MDT
Congrats to Fuji's Pat Cunnane who won the Philly Commuter Challenge. Click on link for full story....read more
Topic: The 5th Spot
05/13/2008 1:41 PM MDT
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