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Company Feature: SCV Imports
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In a market dominated by major bike brands and large P&A distributors, dealers can still benefit from dealing with a smaller, more diversified partner who offers great service, expert product knowledge and access to important niches that the majors miss. SCV Imports has been partnering with dealers across Australia for well over two decades, not just surviving, but thriving in the competitive bicycle industry.
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Company Feature: 5 Star Training
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It’s rare to get full agreement on any topic within Australian the bicycle trade, but you’d go very close with these two statements: 1: ‘Demand for workshop repairs has been booming, particularly since covid started.’ and 2: 'It has been harder than ever to find qualified bicycle mechanics to employ.’
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Product Feature: Gripsport
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Due to their extra size and weight, Ebikes can present design challenges when it comes to transporting them on the back of a vehicle. But Australian manufacturer GripSport has come up with unique solutions to these challenges.
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How's Business? April 2021
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Welcome to our monthly conversation with bike shop owners and managers across Australia and New Zealand. This month we asked ‘If you could have an abundant supply of any three stock items delivered to your shop right now, what would be your top three choices?
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Bicycle parking is a critical piece of the puzzle when it comes to encouraging more people to ride. But before anyone starts drilling holes in public space to install ‘permanent’ bike parking hoops, enclosures or other facilities, they have to jump through expensive hoops themselves in terms of approvals, ensuring they’re not potentially disrupting any underground utilities and so on. …
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Victoria (Metro and Regional)
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In another sign of how cycling is rapidly becoming ‘mainstream’, two very different bicycle companies are both reaching out beyond the usual audience of bicycle brand marketing campaigns.
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With ebikes becoming so commonplace, it’s easy to become complacent about the fact that ebike batteries are high density stores of chemical energy in a potentially highly flammable form. A fire that engulfed a three-level house in Sydney on Friday 19th March was started by an e-bike that was ‘left on to charge overnight, according to firefighters. Read More
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