On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 08:41:10 -0500, "Joshua Goldberg" <
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>Nope...cannot agree on the History section. CCM came 1st, CCM divided into 2 areas, the bicycle
>division and the Sport Equipment div. ProCycle was the name given to the Bicycle division and CCM
>had the Sport Equipment div. Peugeot was manufactured by CCM and when CCM began using the ProCycle
>name, Peugeot was under the ProCycle banner. Mikado, Tri-Ryder, Quetzal, SuperCycle, Sportek,
>Falcon, Voyager and a slew of other brand name bikes where all built under the ProCycle name. The
>NORCO connection is even more twisted. CCM is Canada's version of GIANT or Huffy. CCM churns out
>several hundred thousand bikes and sells them under 20 different company names...not to mention the
>thousands of bikes they import from China and Taiwan that end up in their Quebec distribution
>centers (as Canadian made with Canadian company names attached). IE DAHONs are sold under the
>ProCycle Mikado banner...but they are still Dahons. Quebec is quite similar to Taiwan in that every
>bicycle company is in bed with every other bicycle company. Even what appear to be Independent
>parts and accessories suppliers are actually extensions of CCM/ProCycle.
>
>As far as I can figure, the only reason the EVOX went under the name CCM in the USA, was that
>ProCycle did NOT have a distribution network in the USA...but CCM did via their Sport Equipment
>div. and instead of creating a ProCycle div. for the USA, they had EVOX go under CCM. I am not sure
>about this part, but I suspect CCM has some territorial agreement with Huffy to NOT have ProCycle
>operating in the USA. ProCycle operates several Leading MTB companies in the USA who have gone out
>of their way to distance themselves from the appearance of being connected to CCM/ProCycle. Like
>you put a Specialized next to a Rocky Mountain and they are identical down to the weld
>patterns....it all gets blurred at some point who builds what. Two of my cousins owned Bicycle
>stores in Canada and I got a crash course in who owned what. My info is somewhat dated though, so
>some of the details could have changed.
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>> "Joshua Goldberg" <
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>> > FWIW Quetzal Recumbents sells in the USA under the name CCM EVOX and
>once
>> > upon a time Quetzal did a name change, they used to be called "Peugeot". I never figured that
>> > one out but I suspect CCM had acquired the Licence
>to
>> > produce Recumbents and Road Bikes under the name Peugeot and when the Licence expired..the new
>> > name chosen was Quetzal. I had a silver Peugeot
>105
>> > speed Bent that became a Quetzal 105...very confusing being the exact
>same
>> > model.
>> >
>>
>> In fact Quetzal started as an independent company, but were subsequently bought by Procycle Inc.,
>> who manufacture bikes in Quebec under the names CCM, VeloSport, Mikado, and Peugeot - Ъ×
>
CCM was its own company for most of the 20th century, with its separate sports-equipment and bike
lines.In the mid-1980s they went bankrupt... the sports equipment stuff was picked up by Maska and
later, I think, Cooper... ...but the bike line was picked up by Procycle, a pre-existing company in
St-Georges-de-Beauce, PQ. Procycle started in Quebec in the early seventies... they produced their
own bikes under the VeloSport name and picked up the North American license for manufacturing
Peugeot, which was their 'high end'. Their budget line was CCM. They also made Look bikes under
license in the early nineties, along with a ton of department-store brands. They make a LOT of
bikes. In the mid-nineties, Procycle gave Canadian Tire (a canadian chain of hardwares) an exclusive
on CCM, which till then had been sold in bike stores... however, it appears the recumbents will
again be sold in bike stores. Quetzal was developed in St-Georges-de-Beauce, the Procycle home town,
by people associated with Procycle but independent from them. However, in the last couple of years
Procycle has taken it over entirely.
