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New High Performance Shoes Landing Soon
– Sponsored Content – Supacaz Kazze shoes combine all of the features that your customers are looking for in a high performance road shoe. They offer an uncompromising combination of light weight, stiffness and ventilation. Their HeliumHeel™ increases efficiency through the entire pedal stroke. At the core of the Kazze is an unbelievably stiff NASA…
Ebikes and Cargo Bikes
Only five years ago, very few dealers had an ebike for sale on their floor. Today, there’s hardly a bicycle brand or bicycle store that does not include ebikes. In fact the data that we recently published here shows that ebike sales through the dealer market have been growing by 50% per year and exceeded…
Cargo Craft Offers 50 Million Kilometres of Proven Reliability
– Sponsored Content – For the first time, Australian bicycle dealers can now stock and sell one of the most thoroughly tested, locally designed, bulletproof e-bikes in our nation. COVID-19 has supercharged e-commerce. In many suburbs, Australia Post has stepped up to seven-day delivery, in all weather, road and footpath conditions. Only the toughest vehicles…
Cargo Bikes Offer Great Upsell Opportunities
– Sponsored Content – Some dealers have been hesitant in stocking cargo bikes due to their relatively niche market and higher unit price. But as Gary Cookson, explained, there are big upsides for dealers in the high value of accessories they can easily sell with each new bike. Gary is the founder of Cargocycles, the…
Passion, Expertise and Lived Experience Make Dutch Cargo Bike Your Perfect Partners
– Sponsored Content – Dutch Cargo was founded in 2010 by Jurgen and Emmy Heikamp, two Dutch nationals who brought their experience and passion for day-to-day cycling with them to Australia. Since the start-up, Dutch Cargo secured exclusive Australian distribution agencies for a range of top quality European and global brands including Tern Bicycles, Urban…
Xplova Noza S Smart Trainer Now Available in Australia
2020 Numbers Reveal the Bike Boom’s Impact
By Marc Sani Set aside any doubts: The insurrection that swallowed our nation’s Capital Jan. 6 will reverberate for years to come. At the moment, no one knows where the country is headed—exactly. But “The Troubles,” an oft used phrase to describe the 30-year conflict in Northern Ireland, may signify the sort of long-term, low-level…
If You Read Nothing Else, Read This! My Predictions for 2021 Bike Supply
Alchemy Cycle Trader Branches Out From its Used Bike Roots
As every bicycle dealer knows, supply of new bikes is tight right now, it’s possibly going to get even tighter during 2021. But are second-hand bikes a viable back-up option or stop-gap measure to at least keep a few more dollars coming through the door if the new bike supply really does get tighter in…
Letter from America: January 2021
What a year! And that’s an understatement. But with 2020 inching toward it close it’s time to attempt a forward look for 2021. It’s sort of a tradition among the press — this sometime feeble annual attempt to prognosticate about the future. In this case more specifically about the future of cycling in the U.S.…