Features
The 2020 YearBook is live!
I’m thrilled to announce that we’ve just ‘flicked the switch’ to go live with The Latz Report Yearbook 2020. It’s now available online via any device, anywhere, 24/7 from our YearBook page. Over the past six months we’ve done a complete cover to cover update and revision of the Yearbook so that you now have…
How BikeExchange Brings Brands, Distributors, Dealers and Consumers Together
– Sponsored Content – Welcome to the first of a two part series that will give you unprecedented data and insights into a ‘true blue’ Australian-born global cycling success story, BikeExchange. In Part One you’ll learn about the foundations and amazing reach today of the BikeExchange marketplace platform. Next month in Part Two of this…
Electronics – Good Things Come in Small Packages
No segment of technology changes more rapidly than electronics. In the case of cycling products that you can sell through your store, this category includes GPS units, heart rate monitors, power meters, ‘traditional’ cycle computers. If you think back just a few years, it’s quickly apparent how much things have changed and what were once…
Rotor and Stages Make Groupe Sportif Your One Stop Power Shop
– Sponsored Content – Stages Cycling may be best known to many bicycle dealers for their extremely high performance and well-priced crank based power meters, but for a decade Stages has also made over 20,000 commercial quality spin bikes for gyms and classes worldwide. This has given them invaluable experience when it came to developing…
New Zipp 303 Firecrest Wheelset Shaves 300 Grams
Zipp’s 303 Firecrest Tubeless Disc-brake wheelset is designed for the real world… a world of imperfect conditions, road surfaces, and elements where the bottom line is simple. Efficiency = speed. It’s faster, 300 grams lighter than the previous model, and more capable over varied terrain—whether the surface is pavement in all its conditions or no…
Two Dealers See Opportunities Ahead for Bicycle Tourism
By Anna Gurnhill This month I spoke with two local bike retailers about their perspectives on bicycle tourism, and what it means for their business. Phil Hopkins, Kingston Foreshore Cycles, ACT I admit, I was thrown at the outset of my chat with Phil at Kingston Foreshore Cycles when – not long into the conversation…
Shoes and Pedals – The Perfect Upsell to Boost Your Profits
Once upon a time, clip in style cycling shoes and pedals were expensive and only for ‘hard core’ roadies and mountain bikers. Road shoes are still a relatively small market. Their totally rigid soles and big cleats that make you waddle and clip clop like a tap dancing penguin will ensure that they stay niche…
Increased Global Bicycle Demand Could Mean Re-Stocking Delays for Australia
It’s becoming apparent to me that the Covid-19 related bike boom will have two distinct phases and that the second phase will be larger and longer than the first. In Australia we’re already coming out of Phase One. That’s been when bored people, chafing at the bit from lockdown: closed gyms, closed theatres, closed sport,…
Letter from America – June 2020
Indoor Training’s Revolution
It feels a little surreal to be writing an annual feature about a product that you currently can’t sell because, to the best of our knowledge, all wholesale stock in Australia has been sold out. With the onset of the Coronavirus, indoor trainers were right up there with toilet paper as one first things to…