THE LISTUpdated post-Covid bike brand graveyard. Bold font = dead or "paused." Let me know if you see any errors or any brands missing:1. Kitsbow...
THE LIST
Updated post-Covid bike brand graveyard. Bold font = dead or "paused." Let me know if you see any errors or any brands missing:
1. Kitsbow (3/21/2023) 2. Trust Performance Suspension 3. Guerrilla Gravity 4. Ridefast Racing 5. Nukeproof/Ragley/Vitus/Chainreaction/Wiggle. Nukeproof alive again, all others still dead. 6. Blackspire 7. Eminent Cycles 8. BLine indoor MTB park in Calgary 9. Pole (maybe coming back?) 10. Kona (back up and running!) 11. Planet Cyclery/Colorado Cyclist (back from the dead as of October 2025) 12. Stages Cycling 13. Tweedlove Events 14. GT (“Paused” according to Pin) 15. The Pros Closet (but came back under new ownership) 16. Wrenchscience.com 17. Fat Tire Farm (iconic Portland Bike Shop) 18. Lama Cycles Distribution (“back up and running” on 8/22/2025) 19. Archer Components 20. Alchemy bikes (up for sale 7/2/2025) 21. LightInMotion 22. North Shore Indoor Bike Park 23. Revel Bikes (They’re back!) 24. Husqvarna- and GasGas-branded e-bikes 25. Borealis fat bikes (on pause?) 26. Stif Cycles in the UK (make their own hardtails, and distributor) 27. Scor (paused) 28. Bionicon 29. Diamondback (not dead yet, but down to six employees) “Heard from a friend that Diamondback is down to a few last employees and is selling off last.” Maybe all Accell brands? 30. Novatec wheels U.S. 31. 7 Anna (NS Bikes owner) filed for bankruptcy, but “operations, sales, and warranty support will continue while it searches for investors.” 32. Rocky Mountain (creditor protection in late 2024 new investors early 2025), bankruptcy and new owners Chaos Sports Inc. 33. YT. Restructuring/administration/bankruptcy. Later majority of staff laid off, Markus trying to buy back. Markus relaunches 11/17/2025 34. CSS Composites (owned Forged + Bond, also made carbon rims for Revel, Evil, Chris King, and Bontrager) F+B becomes pickleball racket manufacturer (Nov 1, 2025) 35. KHS USA (October 8, 2025) 36. Syntace and Liteville (October 21, 2025) 37. Haro- dead, not dead? 10/31/2025 “cut its U.S. staff by about a third in the spring and reorganized its sales staff to adjust to a turbulent U.S. market affected by tariffs.” 38. Gorewear cycle wear division (11/6/25) 39. Deviate Cycles Bought Out of Insolvency by Co-Founder Ben Jones (12/2/25) 40. Rad Power bankrupt (12/16/2025) 41. Rein4ced, the European thermoplastic factory whose technology goals resemble Guerilla Gravity's declared bankruptcy and closing today. (1/7/2026 42. Gravaa, hub-based tire inflation, 1-23-2026 43. Knolly Bikes, entered receivership on March 11, 2026 44. Alba Distribution (a fairly small Western Canada distributor based in Squamish), 3-20-2026 45. Paragon Machine Works in Richmond, CA, 3-27-2026 (supplier of small parts like dropouts, bottom brackets, headtubes, hardware, etc) 46. Lynskey Bikes files chapter 11 on 5-6-2026, still alive. 47. Porsche ebike business closes, 500 people lose jobs 5-8-2026 48. Niner Bikes brand “paused” by ownership at United Wheels “to reevaluate and realign” the “brand’s strategic direction.” 5-19-2026 49. Ampler (Berlin based lightweight ebikes) 5-20-2026 50. KHS Bikes Global 5-28-2026 51. Saddleback UK Distributor enters administration 6-1-2026 52. Fraezen (high end made in Germany bike parts) insolvent 6-18-2026 53. TransAlpes bikes (Swiss) 8-5-2026 54. Accell declared bankrupt by judge in Amsterdam (Ghost, Lapierre, Sparta, Batavus, Diamondback, and Raleigh) 8-11-2026. Lapierre seeking a way out of Accell and back into business. 55. North Shore Racks. “Posted on Instagram yesterday that they're "taking a pause from operations," citing "rising costs and ongoing tariff challenges." 10-31-2026 56. Ghost Bikes. “To Close After Finding "No Viable Solution" to Continue. 11-2-2026. Purchased by owners of Haibike 11-6-2026 moments before liquidation. 57. Bianchi files for restructuring 11-2-2026. “The storied Italian brand has asked for protection from its creditors to gain time to restructure the business,” and “implemented "an operational and financial reorganisation in a protected environment" after "several years of financial losses and operational challenges." 58. Linus Bike planning to close. 11-6-2026
RIP
Stages is back operational and developing new products under the ownership of the Giant Group.
Curious- how long is a typical GNCC course? Is it like 100 miles lapping a course or is it a giant loop where you don't hit the same trails more than once or a mix?
Stages is back operational and developing new products under the ownership of the Giant Group.
Curious- how long is a typical GNCC course? Is it like 100 miles lapping a course or is it a giant loop where you don't hit the same trails more than once or a mix?
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