How’s Business? March 2020

What Impact Will the Corona Virus Have? Welcome to our monthly survey of a wide variety of bike shops spread throughout Australia and New Zealand. We’re always mindful to call a mixture of city and country shops with a wide range of bike dealerships and never more than one shop in any state or territory.…

How’s Business – February 2020

Welcome to our monthly How’s Business column where we call a varied selection of bike shops across Australia and NZ and simply ask, How’s Business? With the bushfires dominating our news throughout the summer, for our follow up question this month we asked the Australian stores, ‘Do you think that the bushfires have directly or…

How’s Business? December 2019

Welcome to our popular monthly How’s Business feature in which we ask a selection of  bicycle shop owners and managers across Australia and New Zealand, ‘How’s business?’. Being our December newsletter, for this month’s follow up question we asked, ‘How is Christmas shaping up and do you do laybys for Christmas? Western Australia John Carney…

How’s Business? November 2019

Welcome to our monthly chat with a diverse selection of bicycle shop owners from throughout Australia and New Zealand. We could not have had a much larger geographic spread this month, including store owners from Cairns, Darwin, Perth and Havelock North, which is on the east coast of New Zealand. As always, we start by…

How’s Business? October 2019

Welcome back to what was regularly the most popular item in my former trade newsletter. I simply ask bike shop owners and managers ‘How’s Business?’ I also ask a follow up question. Given that it has been a break of just over two years since my previous trade newsletter, this month I asked each person,…