Lizard Skins Celebrates 30 Years in Business

Lizard Skins, the manufacturer of bike grips and handlebar tape, celebrates its 30th anniversary in January. The company’s product offerings span cycling, baseball, lacrosse, hockey, and gaming for companies including Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo Switch controllers. More recently, the company launched a grip tape for pickleball.  Its grip tape is licensed as an official product of […]

Enduro Bearings Partners With Alchemy Bikes

Enduro Bearings launched its ‘Enduro Bearings Inside’ program in collaboration with Alchemy bikes. The collab provides bearing specs and optimizes frame and spinning component durability and performance. The companies reported they would also work together to educate consumers on the benefits of purpose-built bearings. Alchemy bike‘s recently launched Au program (light frames and builds of […]

Hunter Allen Launches Project Fuerza

Hunter Allen, considered a training pioneer by cyclists, launched Project Fuerza.  The NFT collection uses biometric data graphs contributed by athletes at races to create artwork that tells a visual-numeric story from that race. Cyclists Peter Sagan, Mark Cavendish, Geraint Thomas, Jens Voigt, and other pros have worked with the company.  A former professional cyclist, […]

Lizard Skins Adds Bold Color To Northshore Grip Line

Lizard Skins, the manufacturer of grips and handlebar tape, has added the Lime Green color to its Northshore grip line, mainly a neutral and earth tone color palette. The Northshore has been in Lizard Skin’s line for 16 years. The Northshore grip comes in six colors—Graphite, Gum, Black, Teal, Deep Red, and Lime Green.  Based on the […]

Lizard Skins Re-Launches Lever Grip

Lizard Skins reintroduced one of its earliest products, renamed the DSP Lever Grip. The reiteration uses Lizard Skins Dura Soft Polymer (DSP), for a more reliable grip and control on brake levers.  The DSP material, a no-slip handlebar tape used on MLB bats and National Hockey League sticks, and is gaining wider use on lacrosse […]

NCM Introduces Euro-Inspired E-Bikes

Founded in Germany in 2014, NCM, a Leon Cycle brand, recently launched its Class I e-bikes in the U.S. The new C5 and C7, offer single-speed and 8-speed, respectively, with torque-based pedal-assist power, full racks and fenders for urban commuting and fitness riding.  Both models include a “double triangle” aluminum frame, 700C wheels with wide tires, integrated front […]

Enduro Bearings Announces 2022 Sponsored Individual And Team Athletes

Enduro Bearings announced its 2022 sponsored individual and team athletes competing globally in road, MTB, gravel, and cyclocross. All athletes will run Enduro bearings and components, including its MaxHit bottom brackets and headsets and Torqtite bottom brackets. Enduro Bearings 2022 sponsored riders include: Geoff Kabush: XC/Gravel/CX, 15x Canadian Champ, 3x Olympian Katerina Nash: XC/Gravel/CX, CX […]

BikeExchange Offers New Clients Free Membership To Professional Bicycle Mechanics Association: New initiative part of ongoing BEX effort to support, promote IBD’s and Manufacturers; underscores importance of education, certification for mechanics

Asheville, North Carolina (March 3, 2022) — Online bike marketplace BikeExchange (BEX) – fresh off their recent merger with Kitzuma Cycling Logistics, which allows clients to ship fully built, ready-to-ride bikes to their buyers – is again offering added value for its clients with a new initiative: All current and new North American based BEX […]

Lizard Skins Launches The Strata

Lizard Skins, the grips and handlebar tape manufacturer, has introduced a new grip it calls the Strata.    The Strata is a single-clamp lock-on grip with a soft feel in a mushroom-style fin design in a medium diameter of 32.25mm. The product complements the brand’s expanding Lizard Skins and Oury lines. Lizard Skins now offers […]

Archer Components Launches New Paddle Remote for D1x Trail System: Latest electronic shifting remote brings more natural, ergonomic feel for flat-bar setups

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Press Contact: Nic Sims; SIMBOL Communications nic@simbolpr.com ; 310.935.9365 Scotts Valley, California (March 2, 2022) — Archer Components continues to build on its winning formula of developing electronic shifting for any mechanical derailleur with the release of the new Paddle Remote for its renowned D1x Trail e-shifting conversion kit. The new remote — which […]

Enduro Bearings Launches Mechanics Ambassador Program

Enduro Bearings announced it is “shining a light” on bike mechanics with its Mechanics Ambassador program, offering technical, logistical and support to select professional mechanics, and those aspiring to be bike mechanics, working in the U.S.  Enduro Bearings, a maker of bearings and bearing-related components, aims to raise awareness of bearing technology and the importance […]

Alchemy Bikes Partners With Beeline Connect

Alchemy Bikes announced it expanded its relationship with Beeline Connect. The deal will improve service options on its direct-to-rider bikes and bike shops and create a nationwide network of certified service centers trained to work on Alchemy bikes. “It is a natural addition to Beeline Connect’s fulfillment program that Alchemy has been using for the […]

Archer Components Launches Multi-Function Remote For Drop-Bar Bikes

Archer Component, the manufacturer of wireless electronic systems, added a universal drop-bar remote for gravel or road bikes, preferably with a 1x drivetrain, to its existing MTB and brake-specific gravel systems. The Multi-Function Remote (MFR) line of drop-bar products is compatible with the company’s D1x electronic shifting conversion system, works with its major bike categories, […]

Hustle Bike Labs Contracts With MooseJaw

Hustle Bike Labs, the manufacturer of the Hustle Avery Pedal, a magnetic clipless-platform-hybrid design, announced Moosejaw will carry the pedal online and in select retail locations starting with its Bentonville, AR site. “We are really pumped to see the Hustle Bike Labs team grow from our Outdoor Accelerator to now launching their revolutionary new Avery […]

Enduro Bearings Introduces Maxhit Bottom Bracket 

The next logical step for Enduro Bearing’s Maxhit technology is the introduction of its Maxhit bottom brackets. The brand’s patent-pending Maxhit bearing technology addresses weaknesses the company found in standard bottom bracket components that use several parts within parts, including small ball bearings that succumb to wear and corrosion. Bottom brackets “endure profound and intense forces […]