Annual Features
How Home-Grown Brand Cinettica is Gaining a Loyal Following
POC Makes Bold and Safeguarded Expansion in Australia
– Sponsored Content – POC products have always made a strong statement with their safety features and bold aesthetics. Now POC’s expansion in Australia is making an equally strong statement about the company’s commitment and plans for the local market. Just one year after creating a new Australian subsidiary to distribute all its products, POC…
Dressed For Success – Six Tips for Selling Apparel
Many bike retailers have a love-hate relationship with cycling apparel. The need for cyclists to regularly replace knicks, jerseys and gloves can generate valuable business for dealers – not to mention the time, effort and funds many riders invest in how they look. However, the variations required – different sizes, colours and tweaks in style…
Orbea: Boutique yet All-Inclusive
– Sponsored Content – Originating from the Basque region of Spain, Orbea has been designing bikes since the 1930s and first ventured into mountain biking in 1989. It’s a longstanding history and its range encompasses market-leading models in just about every facet of off-road riding; from gravity-enduro to XC racing and e-bikes. They first gained…
Mountain Bikes: Distributors in Australia
The Latz Report YearBook lists any organisation that supplies goods or services to bicycle retailers or interacts with them in some bike industry related way. For details of Mountain Bike, Fat Bike MTB or electric MTB distributors in Australia, please follow this link to our Yearbook and use the Search function or Direct to Page…
BMX International – not just BMX!
– Sponsored Content – 44 years have passed since the sport of BMX first reached Aussie shores. This is exactly the same timeframe BMX International (BMXI) has been in business, still 100% Australian owned and run by the same family. Their passion has not waned over that time. This company feature will help you understand…
Neo’s Success Proves Lucrative New Market for Dealers
– Sponsored Content – If you’ve been a bicycle dealer for any length of time, you’ll be aware of Apollo, one of Australia’s longest-running and most successful bicycle brands. Apollo was founded way back in 1978. Apollo has not only been sold throughout Australia for decades, but has carved out significant markets overseas. But how…
ByK Born Through Fathers Helping Sons
– Sponsored Content – Warren Key has been surrounded by bikes all his life. His father, Geoff Key, ran Cycles Peugeot back in the 1970’s when they still made bikes in Australia and in 1978 started the large inner city shop Melbourne Bicycles at Clifton Hill, which Warren still oversees to this day. Warren credits…
Adapt & Grow with Trybike
– Sponsored Content – Balance bikes are known to provide a great starting point for kids who are learning to ride. They teach balance, enabling an easier transition to a pedal bike without the need for training wheels. However, for some children – especially when they’re starting very young – a balance bike can present…
Orbea – Big Quality in a Small Package
– Sponsored Content – Spanish brand Orbea is well known to keen cyclists and it holds a solid reputation both on the road and off. What you mightn’t know is they also have an impressive selection of high-performance kids’ bikes—the sort that enthusiasts would be stoked to see their kids on. Incorporating features such as…