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GREENVILLE, S.C. (BRAIN) — Michelin has launched a new ambassador program for its mountain bike tire division.

SAN DIEGO (BRAIN) — Ivan Harms has joined Loaded Precision Components and will oversee brand strategy and operations for the mountain bike component maker.

Preliminary agenda released: Fewer keynotes, more industry panels.

SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif. (BRAIN) — Registration is now open for the 2016 IBD Summit, to be held in Tempe, Ariz., Jan. 12-14.

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Company veteran Rich Tauer takes the reins as Q’s founder focuses on strategy and product innovation.
Flagg (left) and Tauer.

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (BRAIN) — After 34 years as president of Quality Bicycle Products, Steve Flagg is stepping aside and has named Rich Tauer to take his place. Tauer, currently the company’s vice president, takes on his new role Oct. 1.

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Reynolds also announces a wheel trade-in promotion.

SANDY, Utah (BRAIN) — Industry Nine Componentry will now provide hubs for all Reynolds Cycling's Blacklabel mountain bike wheelsets, the companies announced this week.

SAN FRANCISCO (BRAIN) — Rumbleship is sponsoring a showcase area at Interbike that will feature innovative products and services. The company is seeking submissions for inclusion in the display, called Innovation Alley Presented By Rumbleship.

Team BMC's Taylor Phinney with the pact.

LOUISVILLE, Colo. (BRAIN) — Pearl Izumi is launching a new marketing campaign that promotes the idea that endurance athletes should enjoy their chosen activity — and not be a jerk about it.

SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif. (BRAIN)  — Colo. Gov. John Hickenlooper will give the keynote address at the Interbike Industry Breakfast on Wednesday, Sept. 16, the first morning of the Interbike Expo.

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Updated with information on memorial services.

FAIRFAX, Calif. (BRAIN) — Deb Hubsmith, the longtime leader of the Safe Routes to School movement in the U.S., passed away Tuesday after a nearly two-year battle with acute myeloid leukemia. She was 46. 

CHICAGO (BRAIN) — Abus Mobile Security, Inc. has appointed Mathias Lundblad as the general manager of the company's North American business unit.

LOS ANGELES (BRAIN) — Stile Products, Inc., a North American distributor specializing in cycling products for urban cycling, is now offering Carry Freedom bicycle trailers.

TEMECULA, Calif. (BRAIN) — Intense Cycles will work with distributor Shock Therapy to serve the German and Austrian bike markets beginning Sept. 1.

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BEND, Ore. (BRAIN) — Cascade Velo is now distributing products from the Taiwan-based engineering and manufacturing company Fouriers.

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PLEASANT VALLEY, Mo. (BRAIN) — Industry veteran Tony Stanislav has joined Paceline Products, the maker of Chamois Butt'r, as its sales and marketing manager.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (BRAIN) — Registration has opened for this year's Bill Woodul Race Mechanics Clinic, held at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. The clinic is Nov. 18-22.

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MADISON, Wis. (BRAIN) — Saris Cycling Group is working with OwnerIQ, a Boston-based digital advertising company, on a new program that targets interested online shoppers with messages intended to drive them to SCG's nearby brick-and-mortar dealers.

SAN FRANCISCO (BRAIN) — Electric bike brand Faraday Bicycles has hired Monty Hudson as its head of sales.

Hudson most recently worked in sales for digital media firms.

New brand has completed a crowdfunding campaign.
The Hayduke

MINNEAPOLIS (BRAIN) — A new bike brand that promises to donate 100 percent of its profits to bike advocacy programs, has completed a crowdfunding campaign and is moving forward with production of its first three models.

SANDY, Utah (BRAIN) — Reynolds Cycling has promoted Tom Gosselin to its new domestic sales manager position. Gosselin has worked in-house at Reynolds for two years and has managed inside sales, the frame builder program, and Reynolds' web store sales.

CINCINNATI (BRAIN) — The 2015 Recumbent Cycle-Con Trade Show & Convention (RC-C) will be held Sept. 25-27, at the Sharonville Convention Center in Cincinnati, featuring manufacturers of recumbent bikes, trikes and tandems from Europe, Asia, Australia, as well as the U.S.

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