Industry News

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

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.

TOULOUSE, France (BRAIN) — French fork and shock brand BOS Suspension has hired Luke Musselman as director of global sales and marketing.

VENTURA, Calif. — Zeitbike distribution has added U.K.-based Green Oil to its product mix. Green Oil's environmentally friendly bike lubricants, soaps, waxes, brushes and sponges will be available in the U.S. and Canada exclusively through Zeitbike by the end of August.
KENT, Wash. (BRAIN) — Raleigh Bicycles is sponsoring this year's CLIF Bar CrossVegas race. It's the third year that Raleigh will be the official bike sponsor of the event.
HAUPPAUGE, N.Y. (BRAIN) — David Clopton is retiring after 25 years working for Finish Line Technologies, the company announced.
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (BRAIN) — Quality Bicycle Products and Kinetic have teamed with the International Mountain Bicycling Association to create the Big Dig Trail Challenge, an initiative that encourages bike industry employees to volunteer hours building and maintaining their local mountain bike trails.

INDIANAPOLIS (BRAIN) — Local retailer The Bike Line and Smith are providing the Marian University Cycling Team with helmets for all riders starting this fall.
Marian racers will use the Smith Overtake MIPS and the Maze helmets.
VALLEJO, Calif. (BRAIN) — Wren Sports is opening a product showroom in Taichung, Taiwan, to serve OEM customers.
BOSTON (BRAIN) — Vittoria Industries North America has appointed Trevor Litten as regional sales representative for the Midwest region.
Based in Liberty, Mo., Litten will be responsible for Vittoria, 3T Cycling and Selle Italia in Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Iowa.