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Posted August 11, 2025

SAN MATEO, Calif. (BRAIN) — GoPro Inc. second-quarter revenue slid 18% year-over-year with retail and online channels decreasing 19% and 16% respectively.

Posted August 11, 2025

What happened at SRAM and Shimano in the oversupply debacle, plus the root causes that brought us to the current impasse

Posted August 8, 2025
A Fuell Flluid 2.

MUKWONAGO, Wis. (BRAIN) — A liquidator is auctioning the remaining assets of Fuell Inc., an e-bike and e-motorcycle brand founded by motorcycle innovator Erik Buell that entered Chapter 7 bankruptcy last October.

Posted August 8, 2025
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Stuart Walsworth.

BOULDER, Colo. (BRAIN) — Stuart Walsworth, husband of PeopleForBikes' president and CEO, Jenn Dice, died following a mountain bike ride Aug. 1 in Colorado. Funeral services for Walsworth, who was 58, will be Sunday at Greenwood & Myers Mortuary in Boulder.

Posted August 8, 2025
Company says first-half OEM sales are up 30%

TAIPEI (BRAIN) — Giant Group says its inventory-to-asset ratios have returned to "healthy pre-pandemic standards" following an inventory streamlining program. The company also said sales to its original equipment customers were up 30% in the first half of its fiscal year. 

Posted August 7, 2025
Fox estimated tariffs will cost it 'upwards of $50 million' this year.
Fox released its new Podium DH fork in June.

DULUTH, Ga. (BRAIN) — Fox Factory produced sales increases across all three of its divisions in the second quarter, with sales in its Specialty Sports Group — which includes its bicycle-related brands — up 11% over the same period last year.

Posted August 7, 2025

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (BRAIN) — Leatt Corporation posted its fourth consecutive period of growth with revenue increasing 61% in the second quarter led by double-digit expansion in all major product categories.

Posted August 6, 2025
Cambodia passes China to become the largest bike exporter to the U.S.
Cambodia passed China as the largest bike supplier to the US.

WASHINGTON (BRAIN) — Bicycle imports fell 11% in value in the first half of 2025, according to figures released by the Census this week. As the industry attempted to respond to tariff news out of Washington, its source nations changed significantly.

Posted August 6, 2025

KOBLENZ, Germany (BRAIN) — Canyon’s sales in the first half were 398 million euros ($464 million), down about 5% from the first half last year.

Posted August 6, 2025

TOKYO (BRAIN) — Shimano has revised its full-year forecasts due to a discrepancy between its second quarter results and the results it forecast for that period. The company also said a proposed settlement to a U.S. class action lawsuit over its crank recall is "reasonable."

Posted August 6, 2025

IRVINE, Calif. (BRAIN) — The National Bicycle Dealers Association is calling on manufacturers, distributors, and retailers to adopt UL standards for e-bikes, lithium-ion batteries, and other e-mobility devices.

Posted August 4, 2025
Marie Jobes.

HONOLULU (BRAIN) — It's been one year since Marie Jobes launched HIdrate Electrolytes, a Hawaii-made and woman-owned hydration drink company. Designed for athletes training and racing in humid climates, the drink mix debuted at the Hapalua Half Marathon on the island of Oahu in 2024.

Posted August 1, 2025
Courtesy of PeopleForBikes.

WASHINGTON (BRAIN) — New tariffs affecting nearly every U.S. trade partner were announced by the White House hours before the Friday "reciprocal" tariff deadline, including major bike supplying nations. The tariffs will take place Aug. 7, with the exception of Canada.

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