Gary Boulanger of US bike shop Cycles Gaansari scooped up the lapsed trademarks from the Wright Brother's bike building business, and in this, the Centennial Year of Flight, relaunched the Van Cleve and St Clair marques as high-end, updated tributes to the world's most famous IBDs. A 2004 Van Cleve bike will be on the WoundUp booth at Interbike, and Boulanger wants to set up a distribution network in Europe.

Wright Bros bike brand to be at Interbike; brand owner seeks IBDs outside of US

Boulanger wants the network to start in 2004.

Pix of the updated Van Cleve bike, and full background on the Wright Brother’s bike business, can be found at the long, but utterly fascinating, BikeBiz.com feature below…

gboulanger@gaansari.com

http://www.gaansari.com

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