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PORTLAND, Ore. (BRAIN) — Former pro racer Floyd Landis will open three legal marijuana dispensaries here this week, each designed with a cycling theme to appeal to fitness and health-conscious adults.

This week we are featuring retailers who received Interbike Retailer Innovation Awards. Today we are looking at Bloomington Cycle & Fitness.

DAYTON, Ohio (BRAIN) — Huffy Corp. has announced that Claude Jordan will succeed Bill Smith as CEO and president as Smith retires in December. Smith will remain a director on the Huffy Corp. board, and will assume new roles as CEO emeritus and senior adviser.
Leaders will help build a cohesive experience for REI members and customers
BOULDER, Colo. (BRAIN) — Cycling and outdoor industry marketing service agency Thorpe Marketing is pleased to announce the addition of journalist Anne-Marije Rook to its team.
This week we are featuring retailers who received Interbike Retailer Innovation Awards. Today we are looking at Wheelhouse Detroit.
"My challenge to you, the store owner or manager, is to begin paying your best mechanic one-third of your store's hourly labor rate," says James Stanfill.

This week we are featuring retailers who received Interbike Retailer Innovation Awards at the show this month. Today we feature Level 9 Sports, which has four stores along Utah's Wasatch Front.

MARINA, Calif. (BRAIN) — Daniel Emerson's heart sank when he saw that bike lights were exempt from the new tariffs that took effect today, while light components get slapped with the tariff. "Basically the U.S. government is providing a huge boost to our China-based competition. ... They are telling us very clearly we are not welcome in the U.S.," he told BRAIN on Monday.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (BRAIN) — Each time retailer Nick Ponsor looks out from his store’s new café, he sees a bike path that owes at least part of its existence to a bike tax his store and others here have been collecting since 1988.
FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany (BRAIN) — Organizers of Eurobike are planning a bike show in Bangkok, Thailand, Oct. 3-5, 2019, they announced Monday.
SALEM, Ore. (BRAIN) — The Oregon Department of Revenue has collected $288,738 from bike retailers for the state's $15 bike tax, which went into effect Jan. 1. Oregon has the only state bike tax.