Cannondale Archives - The Latz Report

Compostable Bidons for Cannondale World Tour teams

By Scott Green | 12th May 2022 |

Budapest, Hungary Cannondale has unveiled 100% compostable bidons that will be used by its World Tour road cycling teams, starting with this month’s Giro d’Italia. Both the EF Education – EasyPost men’s team and EF Education – TIBCO – SVB women’s team will be using the bottles as a solution the approximately 34,000 bottles that…

Letter from America: The Major Players Are Getting Bigger – Fast!

By Marc Sani | 28th April 2021 |

The notion that perhaps too few high-value bicycle brands maintain too much clout among the globe’s major frame and component manufacturers seldom comes up in conversation. But unless you’re living…

Bike Brands Now Targeting Mainstream Consumers

By Phil Latz | 24th March 2021 |

In another sign of how cycling is rapidly becoming ‘mainstream’, two very different bicycle companies are both reaching out beyond the usual audience of bicycle brand marketing campaigns.

Global Bike Company Results Start to Reflect Covid Bike Boom

By Phil Latz | 26th November 2020 |

As the latest financial reports are being posted by publicly listed bicycle companies, the first effects of the Covid boom are being seen in their sales numbers.

Trek Moving to Fully Recyclable Bike Packaging

By Phil Latz | 26th November 2020 |

Trek’s Marlin is the first model to be shipped in more environmentally packaging.

On Friday 30th October Trek released details of its new bike box and internal packaging and made a commitment to move to 100% recyclable and plastic-free packaging.

Cannondale and GT to End Model Year System

By Phil Latz | 30th July 2020 |

As every dealer knows, most of the world’s bicycle brands have for many years operated on a model year system. The theoretical upside of this system is to drive consumer demand through a desire to own the current year model. But the reality is that most models don’t really change that much from one year…