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Welcome to How’s Business, brought to you by our sponsor Dirt Works Australia, where right now, you can get Sunringle wheelsets for HALF PRICE. If you read what our participating bike shop owners had to say this month, you’ll see that their answers range from “Worst ever!” to “Best ever!” with the rest mainly towards the lower end of the …
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Wollongong, NSW. It’s taken me 38 years in business to learn these 12 tips, most of them the hard way! You certainly don’t have to agree with all of them, but I hope that at least some of them help you. Those of you who’ve been in the bike industry for at least eight years or more and who have …
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An increasing number of cyclists, particularly enthusiasts who care about their bike’s performance, are preferring chain wax over oil lubricants. When properly applied, chain wax lubricates chains without attracting any dirt, whereas oil lubricants are generally sticky and attract dirt & grit. It’s in fact the dirt and grit that destroys not only chains, but expensive …
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Remco Tools have just released a brand new, compact design of motorised bike lift workshop stand that combines quality and capacity with fantastic value for money. Not only does this mean that bicycle shops can upgrade their workshops at a more affordable price, but it even has potential as a new retail sale income stream, because …
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Off Course. As we reported here earlier this year, after 16 years trading as Commuter Cycles, the inner city Melbourne store rebranded as Off Course to reflect the much wider range of bikes that it now sells and services, including to gravel and adventure riding markets. After a long gap between visits, I recently dropped in on the store, which …
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NICA Launches Youth Mountain Bike Program in Australia. The National Interscholastic Cycling Association (NICA) is a USA founded and based youth development organisation dedicated to building strong mind, body, character and communities through mountain biking. Founded in 2009 as a non-profit organisation, NICA currently has 32 state and regional leagues and 14,000+ registered volunteer coaches working annually with over 25,000 …
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Morisset, NSW. Rickshaws date back 150 years and evoke images of hand-drawn or cycle-powered small vehicles in traditional Asian settings. According to Wikipedia there were four million rickshaws in operation during the late 1980’s. But in Australia, rickshaw style bicycles have been virtually non-existent until more recently when they’ve found demand for two main uses – pedicabs and giving rides …
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16,500 Non-Compliant Fat Bikes Seized in the Netherlands. Many Australian bicycle dealers are concerned about the impact upon their businesses of the sale through online and other channels of fatbikes that greatly exceed the legal 250 watt power limit (500 watt in NSW). These dealers would probably like to see Australian government authorities take actions similar to what recently happened …
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Stuttgart, Germany. As we recently reported here, Bosch did not launch any new hardware at their annual media event at Eurobike on Tuesday 2nd July instead focusing upon software. But on 1st October they launched several new products. According to their latest media release, Bosch employs a staggering 428,000 people worldwide (as at 31st December 2023), generating annual sales of …
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