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Applications Open for Taipei Cycle Exhibitors
Taipei, Taiwan Booth applications opened this week for 2024 Taipei Cycle, which will focus on four themes: Green Action, Micromobility, Innovation & Startups and Culture & Lifestyle. Next year’s event will be held from 6th to 9th March and will introduce digital advancements such as a Cycling e-Sports Pavilion and an immersive E-bike Demo Test…
Publisher Phil Latz Adds Media Sales Role
Wollongong, NSW The Latz Report publisher Phil Latz has decided to also take over the role of media sales manager. “We’ve had some challenges in successfully filling this role over the past six months,” Phil said. “As all business owners know, it’s been a very tough recruitment environment in the current era of full employment.…
How’s Business – June 2023
Welcome to our monthly chat with bicycle dealers across Australia and New Zealand. With winter officially started after a very cold May in most parts of Australia and NZ, our follow-up question this month was, “How are your sales of lights, winter apparel and any other winter seasonal product going?” We made our calls on…
Yarra Valley Cycles Aiming for Big Impact with New Store
Lilydale, Victoria One of Australia’s largest independent bicycle dealers, Yarra Valley Cycles, is set to triple its floorspace with a shift to a new premises in Lilydale it says will be unique in this country. Work is well underway to convert its new Main Street building and the team is preparing to start the move…
Huge Interest in the Stratospheric Top End of Handmade Market
Williamstown, Victoria If you added up the production of every hand maker of bicycles in Australia it would probably still only amount to a fraction of 1% of the total Australian bicycle market, by volume. But that doesn’t stop people coming in their thousands to see the annual Handmade Bicycle Show Australia (HBSA). They come…
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Trek Shifts Shellharbour Store to Former Bunnings Site
Shellharbour, NSW Trek has confirmed its moving its Shellharbour store to a larger premises in nearby Warrawong. Trek Bicycle Australia’s head of retail, Richard Runde, said the NSW south coast store will move approximately 12km north to a former Bunnings site. “This store will be a brand new, state-of-the-art fit-out including a new multi-tech workshop…
PSI Bags Exclusive Partnership with EVOC
Melbourne, Victoria Munich-based bag and backpack manufacturer EVOC has announced a new exclusive distribution agreement in Australia with PSI Cycling. It confirmed its agency with Groupe Sportif will cease on 1st September 2023. EVOC, established in 2008, has been a leader in the evolution of high-quality, sporty backpacks, protection wear, bags and luggage for cyclists,…
VelectriX Parts Ways with Advance Traders
Sunshine Coast, Queensland E-Bike manufacturer VelectriX has terminated its exclusive distribution agreement with Advance Traders. The Sunshine Coast-based business announced it will no longer supply bikes to 99 Bikes, the retail arm of Pedal Group that also owns Advance Traders, and will not have any direct-to-consumer sales. Instead, VelectriX would focus on selling through independent…
Bike Industry Seeks Inclusion in National Tyre Recycling Stewardship
Melbourne, Victoria A national recycling program for tyres from cars, motorcycles and large vehicles will be urged to expand to bike tyres, when Bicycle Industries Australia (BIA) meets with the scheme’s CEO next week. The meeting next Tuesday will look at if and how used bicycle tyres and tubes can be incorporated into the Tyre…