Accell's administrators sell Batavus, Koga and Babboe to the Singapore-based group Dutech, along with the group's Hungarian factory. Sparta stays out.
Twelve Pivot electric mountain bikes were stolen during the brand's UK test tour; it has cancelled its last dates and is asking riders to stay vigilant.
Lime is offering £1 million to London boroughs to create parking bays for shared bikes, bays that are also open to its competitors' bikes.
Newmen brings its Streem G.62 aero gravel wheel to 32-inch: 1,670 g per pair in the carbon version, reserved for now for bike manufacturers' original equipment.
Setting off from Missouri on 5 October, Lachlan Morton reached Sacramento in 6 days, 21 hours and 15 minutes, faster than the 1861 horseback relay.
Bought for €1.56 billion at the peak of the cycling bubble, Accell (Raleigh, Lapierre, Batavus) was declared bankrupt in Amsterdam on 11 August 2026.
The 25 km/h cap on e-bikes is not a speed limit: it is the line between a bicycle and a moped. Plate, insurance, helmet, derestricting — what the law actually says.
The bill making helmets compulsory for cyclists rests on one figure — and that figure covers scooters. Three bills since 2021, not a single vote.
A public subsidy born on 1 September 2025, repealed twenty-nine days later. The state turned off the tap for cargo bikes — the tradespeople, for their part, keep riding.
