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BRUSSELS (BRAIN) — Belgium’s Market Court upheld a lower court ruling striking down the UCI’s rule limiting the maximum gear in pro road races to a 54 x 11 ratio.

SRAM CEO Ken Lousberg called the decision “groundbreaking.”

FRANKFURT (BRAIN) — The Trade Show Advisory Board announced Eurobike will return to its traditional early fall place on the calendar in 2027 after its meeting Tuesday. Next year's show will be from Sept. 1-3.

Tagged Tradeshows and conferences / Eurobike
Merida team bikes at the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya 2025. Getty photo.

TAIPEI (BRAIN) — Taiwanese bike makers Merida Industry and Ideal Bike are each reporting sales declines in April, following on declines reported for the first three months of the year

Tagged Earnings/Financial Reports
Taipei skyline. BRAIN photo.

TAIPEI, Taiwan (BRAIN) — Taiwan’s three publicly traded bicycle makers — Giant, Merida, and Ideal — each showed sales revenue declines in March and for the complete first quarter.

Tagged Earnings/Financial Reports

FRANKFURT (BRAIN) — After announcing in January it wouldn't participate in this year's Eurobike, Shimano Europe will be in attendance after all in June. A Eurobike press release issued by show organizer Fairnamic on Tuesday confirmed Shimano Europe, Canyon Bicycles, FSA, Kenda, and Tektro Europa among others.

Tagged Eurobike

TAIPEI, Taiwan (BRAIN) — Taipei Cycle begins Wednesday at the Nangang Exhibition Center with more than 900 exhibitors from 30 countries.

Tagged Taipei Cycle Show
Taiwan Stock Exchange logo.

TAIPEI, Taiwan (BRAIN) — Three Taiwanese publicly traded bike manufacturers released their full 2025 earnings reports this week, with all three reporting revenue declines in 2025, but two of them showing earnings improvements.

Tagged Earnings/Financial Reports

VIENNA (BRAIN) — Privately held kids bike manufacturer woom reported its best financial year ever in 2025, with revenue increasing 27% and has now sold more than two million bikes since beginning in 2013.

Tagged Earnings/Financial Reports
Accell Group logo.

HEERENVEEN, Netherlands (BRAIN) — After leading a group that purchased Accell Group in 2022 for approximately $1.77 billion, US-based investment giant KKR has stepped away from the troubled Dutch bicycle conglomerate, as a new ownership group led by its lenders takes over.

Tagged Mergers, Acquisitions & Investments

TAICHUNG CITY, Taiwan (BRAIN) — Giant Group founder King Liu died Monday at the age of 93. Liu founded Giant in Taiwan in 1972 and co-founded Giant Manufacturing Co., Ltd., and eight years later built it into the largest bike manufacturer in the country and second largest in Asia.

Updated with Giro comment.

VENICE, Italy (BRAIN) — An Italian court has ordered Giro's European distributor, Spain-based Adventure Sports Group Europe S.L., to stop making certain marketing claims about its waterproof cycling gloves after a complaint by a company that has a patent on those features.

Tagged Lawsuits/legal

TAICHUNG, Taiwan (BRAIN) — Giant Group says it has enacted the third phase of its response to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection order barring U.S. imports from its Taiwan factory, over alleged forced labor.

Eurobike 2025 image courtesy of Eurobike_Silke Magino.

FRANKFURT (BRAIN) — Friday was something of a good news, bad news day for Eurobike.

Tagged Tradeshows and conferences / Eurobike

AMSTERDAM (BRAIN) — Fundracer, the micro-mobility investment fund founded by several cycling industry veterans, is investing in a Belgian company that is developing safety airbags for cyclists.

Tagged Mergers, Acquisitions & Investments
Canyon's Koblenz headquarters.

KOBLENZ, Germany (BRAIN) — Canyon says it is aiming to "reduce complexity and simplify processes," a procedure that includes reducing its workforce by up to 320 workers.

Endura launches new gravel and road lines last year.

(BRAIN) — U.K.-based apparel brand Endura is laying off multiple employees as it moves its operations from Scotland to London, a move that follows a financial report showing losses for a second consecutive year.

MILAN (BRAIN) — Dutch conglomerate Accell Group has sold the titanium frame brand Van Nicholas to Italian cargo brand Velo-ce.

Tagged Mergers, Acquisitions & Investments

VICENZA, Italy (BRAIN) — Former Crankbrothers CEO Gaspare Licata leads a group of private investors that acquired a majority interest in Extreme Racing Shox (EXT), a manufacturer of bike and motorsports suspension systems.

Tagged Mergers, Acquisitions & Investments
Phillipp Ferger.

FRANKFURT (BRAIN) — Phillipp Ferger will replace Stefan Reisinger as head of Eurobike on Jan. 1 as the trade show reorganizes its leadership in the wake of two German trade groups withholding support of the event.

Tagged Eurobike
Bike imports from China and Cambodia were both down in September.

WASHINGTON (BRAIN) — U.S bike imports were down 24% in units and 16% in dollar value through September this year, according to new data released this week.

Tagged Tariffs

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