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…

Cargo Craft Offers 50 Million Kilometres of Proven Reliability

Cargo Craft eBike

– 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

Gary Cookson with the best-selling Yuba Spicy Curry.

– 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

Tern GSD

– 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…

Identification is a Key Component to Reducing Bike Theft

– Sponsored Content – Bike theft doesn’t just leave the bike owner feeling devastated. Customer concern about potential theft is a major impediment to bike shops selling more bikes and bikes of greater value. A bike lock is a necessary deterrent to opportunistic theft but on its own offers little protection against determined recidivist bike…

MicroSHIFT – Offers High Quality and Value for Money

– Sponsored Content – Queensland-based KWT Imports has recently been appointed as the Australian distributor for MicroSHIFT and will be offering this great quality drive-train product through its extensive dealer network. MicroSHIFT, a Taiwanese drivetrain brand, has been flying under the radar for some time, building OEM spec components since 1999. Recently, MicroSHIFT came out…

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…

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…