Easton Bell reported a moderate increase in sales in 2008, although the company’s profit dipped slightly.
The company, which owns the Giro, Bell, Blackburn and Easton brands, posted sales of $775.5 million last year, an increase of 7 percent from 2007, according to Easton Bell’s annual report released by the Securities Exchange Commission last week.
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Whilst Lance Armstrong and his Tour de France cohorts are quite rightly focused on trimming the last second off their race time, the real challenge for most bicycle users is not to increase speed, but to complete even the shortest bike ride without feeling their central crotch and vital parts have suffered permanent injury.
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As part of the North American Handmade Bicycle Show coming to Indianapolis this weekend, ArtBike! will be featured in the Mass Ave and Fountain Square areas.
It is an exhibition that marries bicycles and art in the form of street art, sculpture and installation art.
“It’s kind of hard to explain how beautiful these things are,” said Laura Brennan, account coordinator for O2 Sports Marketing. “They’re so pretty and you can tell that these people put so much work into them. . . . There’s no trick, there’s no hook. It’s bicycling, it’s art.”
The handmade works of cycling art will be displayed in six galleries.
One bike, made from bamboo …Â More info