Top line: The U.S. Trade Representative extended the China Section 301 product exclusions that were due to lapse tonight, including the ones covering bicycle helmets and bike trailers, for two more months. The notice, posted Nov. 6, carries the exclusions through 11:59 p.m. ET on Jan. 9, 2027, and goods have to be entered for consumption by that deadline to qualify; shipping or ordering earlier doesn't lock in the exclusion. It's a short reprieve rather than a fix, so importers of helmets and trailers now face the same cliff in early January. (USTR, Tech Times, PeopleForBikes)

Bike

  • Linus, the Venice, Calif. commuter brand, is winding down after nearly 20 years. It emailed retailers last week that it will close; Linus sold city bikes, e-bikes and kids' bikes through dealers nationwide and distributors abroad. (Bicycle Retailer)
  • Lynskey Performance is still working through Chapter 11. The titanium frame maker keeps taking and filling new orders but has cut staff from about 33 to 23, with roughly $1.27M in unsecured liabilities, according to coverage of the reorganization. (Bicycle Retailer, Velo)
  • PeopleForBikes asked the CPSC to define e-motos separately from low-speed e-bikes and give off-road e-motos their own mandatory electrical safety standards, and urged it to adopt existing UL standards unchanged in its proposed lithium-ion battery rule. The NBDA backed mandatory battery standards built on UL 2849, and New Jersey's licensing law for e-bike riders is cited as having hurt shops there. (Bicycle Retailer)
  • Youngone settled the last piece of its Scott Sports dispute. A final ICC arbitration ruling ended the four-year fight with former Scott shareholder Beat Zaugg, and Youngone gets back the roughly ₩8.8B held in escrow, which sets its final price for the 2025 share purchase that took it to 96.71% of Scott at about CHF 14.31M. (Financial News)
  • Pivot launched its first road bike, the Pravia, a UCI-approved race frame claimed at 895 g, with builds from $5,999 to $11,999 that all come with carbon wheels, SRAM AXS and a power meter. It's another mountain-first brand reaching for road share. (BikeTips)
  • England opened a consultation on licensing shared e-bike schemes, running to Dec. 31, which would make operating without a licence a criminal offence for operators such as Lime, Voi and Dott. (Highways Industry)

Ski & Snow

  • Copper Mountain opened Sunday, Nov. 8, two days late, on the American Eagle lift; Breckenridge, which also missed Nov. 6 on warm nights, had not set a new date. Loveland and Banff Sunshine opened Saturday. (Summit Daily, Loveland)
  • The Alps got going too: Verbier, Cervinia and Glacier 3000 opened Nov. 7, though forecasters expect the freezing level to rise to nearly 3,000 m from Tuesday. (deinskigebiet.ch)
  • Oasis is distancing its Vail campaign from Matthew Prince's push for control of Park City, per the Storm Skiing Journal as summarized by NESKIS, as the fight for two board seats heads to the Dec. 14 vote. (NESKIS, Teton Gravity Research)

Outdoor

  • The LA-Long Beach watchmen contract was extended again, this time to Nov. 20. The PMA and ILWU Local 26 will keep bargaining; a strike by about 250 watchmen would hit terminals that handle roughly 85% of Long Beach cargo and 33% of Los Angeles cargo, right in the holiday import window. (PMA, Reuters via Investing.com)
  • Goldwin, which holds The North Face rights in Japan and Korea, cut its full-year outlook to ¥141.5B in sales and ¥23.8B in operating profit (from ¥145.4B and ¥26.1B) after first-half North Face sales fell 1.6% on bad weather, weaker tourist traffic and a slow start to fall. First-half operating profit fell 15.4% to ¥7.7B. (SGB Media, Goldwin filing)
  • Helly Hansen grew 3% to $191M in Q3 at Kontoor Brands, with sport up 2% and workwear up 5%, and its segment profit nearly doubled to $15.3M; Kontoor raised full-year adjusted EPS to $5.40 after closing the Lee sale. (Kontoor)
  • Woolrich is closing its Bologna office and moving operations to Turin, with 78 employees leaving as part of its post-acquisition restructuring. (La Voce)

Upcoming

Grassroots Outdoor Alliance's Connect show runs Nov. 9–12 in Kansas City; Giant and Merida October revenue is due by Nov. 10; YETI reports Nov. 12; Vail Mountain targets a Nov. 13 opening; Youngone (Scott Sports' parent) Q3 is due by Nov. 16 and the company hasn't confirmed a date; Epic Pass prices rise after Nov. 15; Amer Sports reports Nov. 17; the Bicycle Industry Summit runs Nov. 18–20 in Tucson; the LA-Long Beach watchmen contract now runs to Nov. 20; Vail's annual meeting is Dec. 14. Pon has not announced a date for any 2026 interim figures.

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