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Cycle Gear
Cycle Gear is a motorcycle accessories retailer featuring 165 stores in 39 states and an e-commerce website. The company is headquartered in Benicia, California. The business was founded in 1974 by Dave Bertram. The company founded the ''BILT'' and ''Sedici'' helmet brands in 2011. The company also founded ''Street and Steel'' and ''Hot-wired'' brands. In 2016, the company merged with RevZilla under the conglomerate Comoto Holdings Inc. Four years later the group acquired two more companies J&P Cycles and Rever. Each company functions independently as a sister company. History The company founded its first store in 1974 in Benicia, California in the North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area by Donald Martin and Dave Bertram. The company featured a catalog from the 1970s and by 1992 there were six stores in the California Area. In 1999, the company continued growing to about ten locations and featured the Frank Thomas Collection one of the best-known British mot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benicia, California
Benicia ( , ) is a city in Solano County, California, located on the north bank of the Carquinez Strait in the North Bay (San Francisco Bay Area), North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. It served as the List of capitals in the United States, capital of California for nearly thirteen months from 1853 to 1854. The population was 27,131 at the 2020 United States census. Benicia is just east of Vallejo, California, Vallejo and across the strait from Martinez, California, Martinez. History The City of Benicia was founded on May 19, 1847, by Robert B. Semple, Dr. Robert Semple, Thomas O. Larkin, and Comandante General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, on land donated to them by General Vallejo in December 1846. It was named for the General's wife, Francisca Benicia Carillo de Vallejo, a member of the Carrillo family of California, a prominent Californio dynasty. The General intended that the city be named "Francisca" after his wife, but this name was dropped when the former city ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
