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Posted June 30, 2025
Mayor Eric Adams wants a 15 mph speed limit for e-bikes, e-scooters.

NEW YORK (BRAIN) — The 2026 city budget approved last week includes creating the Department of Sustainable Delivery within the Department of Transportation to regulate e-bikes and comes a few weeks after Mayor Eric Adams said he is implementing a new 15 mph speed limit for e-bikes and e-scooters.

Posted June 26, 2025
Organizers announce a concurrent light electric vehicle trade show for 2026.

FRANKFURT (BRAIN) — Eurobike opened its doors Wednesday at the Messe Frankfurt, with 1,500 exhibiting companies from more than 60 nations in attendance. 

Posted June 26, 2025

Pat Cunnane says when a product sold by a third-party seller proves hazardous, marketplace platforms like Amazon too often dodge the responsibility for recalls, leaving consumers vulnerable and recalls ineffective.

Posted June 26, 2025

WASHINGTON (BRAIN) — Legislation introduced Wednesday through the Senate budget reconciliation bill would sell an estimated 1.2 million acres of public lands currently managed by the Bureau of Land Management; it could come to a vote this week.

Posted June 26, 2025
Kay Peterson-Cook shared this photo on Facebook this week.

CRESTED BUTTE, Colo. (BRAIN) — Don Cook, a mountain bike pioneer, racer, retailer, trail builder and early proponent of 29-inch mountain bikes, died this week after suffering an apparent heart attack while riding the 409 Trail above Crested Butte. He was 66. 

Posted June 26, 2025

WASHINGTON (BRAIN) — Bell Sports is working with the Consumer Product Safety Commission and Canadian authorities to recall more than 31,000 bike helmets because they don't meet the federal safety standard.

Posted June 24, 2025

BOULDER, Colo. (BRAIN) — PeopleForBikes released its 2025 City Ratings on Tuesday, using data to rank the best places for cycling globally.

Posted June 20, 2025

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (BRAIN) — Sports nutrition e-commerce brand Fuel Goods Inc. announced earlier this month a $1.7 million investment in a fully integrated facility here that it said will create 47 new jobs in the next five years.

Posted June 19, 2025

BOULDER, Colo. (BRAIN) — Pon.Bike's Mike's Bikes retail chain acquired Boulder's Full Cycle on Tuesday. The location re-opened Thursday as a Mike's Bikes store — the fifth in Colorado and 19th in the country.

Posted June 18, 2025
Mary T. Boyle.

BETHESDA, Md. (BRAIN) — A federal judge reinstated three Consumer Product Safety Commissioners fired in May by the Trump administration after they objected to staff cuts and sued nearly two weeks later for unlawful dismissal.

Posted June 18, 2025

WASHINGTON (BRAIN) — The Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a safety warning to consumers to stop riding FENGQS F7 Pro e-bikes because of fire and burn hazards, posing a risk of "serious injury or death."

Posted June 17, 2025
Reto Aeschbacher. Photo by Simon Ricklin courtesy of Scott Sports.

GIVISIEZ, Switzerland (BRAIN) — Reto Aeschbacher, who has led Scott Sports' marketing for nearly 30 years, is leaving the company to become CEO of Bergbahnen Lenzerheide, the company that operates the cable cars and ski lifts in the Lenzerheide ski resort area in Switzerland.

Posted June 17, 2025

LANDRUM, S.C. (BRAIN) — Cardinal Cycling Group is selling the machinery and raw materials from what was once the largest steel frame factory in the U.S.

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