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    Accell group goes bust; Raleigh, Haibike, Lapierre and others future in doubt.

    Just learned that Dutech also buys Juncker Bike Parts and the business structures around it. This could lead to an end of Wiener Bike Parts, or are they going to join the same bike parts branch for Dutech?...
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    Accell group goes bust; Raleigh, Haibike, Lapierre and others future in doubt.

    just heard that Bianchi is also going into a chapter 11 procedure...
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    Accell group goes bust; Raleigh, Haibike, Lapierre and others future in doubt.

    Winora and Haibike are also bought by Dutech, Wiener Bike Parts will go bust Ghost is already gone. All the lads on a Ghost contract left today after leaving their stuff in the offices in the morning... Also the mayor part of the Winora Staiger lads are being layed off. No word yet on the...
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    2026 - Our Rides in Words, Photos, Maps and Videos

    like this one?... ;D
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    Litespeed launched their titanium take on e-bikes

    Just ran in to the new e-bikes from the Ti specialists from Litespeed. https://litespeed.com/collections/litespeed-titanium-e-bikes
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    Excellent GCN primer on bike lights

    we had these lights on our bikes Lezyne also has a light with a contour on the road (I think laser drive) works fine. On my private bikes I run Lezyne rear lights which are attachet to the e-kit indeed, laser drive https://road.cc/content/review/lezyne-laser-drive-rear-250-280059
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    Rumors, from the inside

    the wonderful world "warranty upgrade", at some brands where I worked in the service department we had to exchange frame for the new platform's frames after the warranty frames where gone... so in those cases it was either get the dealer/consumer to buy some new parts (seatposts, BB+crankset...
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    2026 - Our Rides in Words, Photos, Maps and Videos

    test ride time again.
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    Camera for EMTB recommendation?

    We ride with a Action camera also. When the DJI Osmo Action (1) came out I jumped on it. That little camera has been great, prior to it I used a Rollei version. lots of work in post, image stabilization, add in audio (separate recording). And now for a portion of time we are using the Omso 5 pro...
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    Cannondale closes their US office and merges the sales into one office

    Just learned that Juliana is also axed and absorbed back into Santa Cruz
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    Cannondale closes their US office and merges the sales into one office

    they'll centralize the sales activities under the central Santa Cruz team, also the outside sales reps will promote C'dale... And what will happen to the Headshock service in the US... I do not think they'll be able to send those to Europe for service (if Wim is still there... since the new...
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    Cannondale closes their US office and merges the sales into one office

    sadly the time has arrived that the CT office is going to shutdown for Cannondale. All CSG activities will be transfered (or are allready) to Woudenberg and Freiburg to the PON.bike surroundings. Just the sales part will be merged with the other sales reps in the USA. The last few years C'dale...
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    2026 - Our Rides in Words, Photos, Maps and Videos

    In between jobs so time for some gardening, glad to have the old and trusty Bob yak at hand to get the stuff to the municipality waste area. Always get some funny looks showing up with such a load with a bicycle. With the bike it is even faster than by car. I can ride in almost a straight line...
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    Rumors, from the inside

    Indeed same what I heard from my sources... The guys in Arnhem are also not sure what is going to happen to the business unit here.... Sales is currently stabilizing, some markets are still very poor (southern Europe) where the German an Benelux markets are picking up again. Nordics are also...
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