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WASHINGTON (BRAIN) — A "Charlie Fest" has been scheduled for Friday and Saturday to honor City Bikes founder and CEO Charlie McCormick, who died May 11 at 60.
OLD FORT, N.C. (BRAIN) — Chad Schoenauer's long-range goal always was to expand the footprint of his bike repair shop beyond the walls of a back room inside the Kitsbow Cycling Apparel's Ride House visitor center. He just didn't expect to have to do it so soon.
WASHINGTON (BRAIN) — Longtime retailer Charlie McCormick, the founder and CEO of City Bikes in D.C., died of natural causes on May 11 while camping in a remote spot overlooking the Potomac River in Poolesville, Maryland.
He was 60.
EMPORIA, Kan. (VELONEWS) — Gravel scene regulars Yuri Hauswald and Bobby Wintle joined Tim and Kristi Mohn in ownership of Merchant Cycles, a shop formerly known as Gravel City Adventure & Supply Co.
MONTREAL (BRAIN) — Several bike retailers are telling BRAIN they are displeased with Lightspeed’s decision to unify its point-of-sale software with its payment processing software.
CHICAGO (BRAIN) — The REI Co-op store employees here voted Thursday night to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU). It's the fourth REI location to join the union.
According to the RWDSU, 84% voted to unionize.
MONTEREY, Calif. (BRAIN) — Bryce Phillips, founder and CEO of Evo, may have spent his formative years as a professional skier but his Seattle-based company, founded in 2001, has become a major retailer selling equipment in more than a half-dozen categories.
LOUISVILLE, Colo. (BRAIN) — John Levisay, who has led The Pro's Closet for the past 2½ years, will leave his position as CEO at the end of this month to spend more time with his family.
ASPEN, Colo. (BRAIN) — Vail Resorts is closing 19 retail locations in the Colorado mountains. Most of the locations offered winter sports sales and rentals, but several of them also offered bike sales and rentals. The closures will cost 69 workers their jobs.
PITTSBURGH (BRAIN) — Dick's Sporting Goods reported record full-year 2022 net sales while fourth-quarter sales grew 7.3% year-over-year.
NEW YORK (BRAIN) — Shops will have six months to sell non-certified bikes. What then?
CLEVELAND (BRAIN) — Workers at an REI location in Beachwood, Ohio, near Cleveland, have voted to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU). It will become the third REI store that is unionized, following stores in California and New York.
GOODYEAR, Ariz. (BRAIN) — Trek Bicycle Store West Phoenix sales and service employee Mike Smith is recovering from surgery in intensive care after being injured when the driver of a pickup truck ran into the back of a group of cyclists he was riding with on Saturday.
GARLAND, Texas (BRAIN) — Friends and family of James Kincheloe have started a crowd-funding campaign to help with memorial expenses.
Kincheloe was found dead Feb. 16 at Don Johle's Bike World, where he worked. A fellow employee arriving for work found Kincheloe dead of an apparent gunshot wound.
PITTSBURGH (BRAIN) — Dick's Sporting Goods said it has agreed to acquire the specialty outdoor retailer Moosejaw from Walmart.
CHEROKEE, N.C. (BRAIN) — Brett Hackshaw and Ben King always have wanted to test the "beer, gear, and bikes" business model, and after Specialized closed the Motion Makers Bicycle Shop location here in January, they soon will have that opportunity.
CLEVELAND (BRAIN) — After REI Co-op’s Beachwood suburb store employees walked off the job minutes before their shifts Friday morning, the store agreed to terms with the union to hold an election.
CLEVELAND (BRAIN) — REI Co-op and the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union failed to agree on a contract to hold an election at REI's Beachwood, Ohio, store last week. The National Labor Relations Board scheduled a hearing Friday.
LOUISVILLE, Colo. (BRAIN) — The Pro's Closet bills its pilot store here as "The Denver metro area's largest bike shop."
LOUISVILLE, Colo. (BRAIN) — The Pro's Closet has made its second round of layoffs in the past three months on Thursday, the result of continued economic headwinds facing the cycling industry.
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