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Inside Sydney’s Newest Bike Shop
Sydney Electric Bikes has just opened its fifth Sydney location, Centennial Park. Strictly speaking, the new store is in Woollahra but it is directly opposite one of the main entrances to Centennial Park, which is by far the most popular cycling destination in the eastern suburbs of Sydney. Centennial Park covers 189 hectares and includes a wide 3.8 kilometre cycling loop. According…
Latest USA Data Shows Dramatic Inventory Shortage
Trisled Becomes Australian Distributor of TerraTrike and GreenSpeed
One of the many attractive features of Australia’s bike industry is its diversity. There are many niches that are surprisingly large in business sales revenue terms. Some of these niches are on a growth trajectory. Recumbent bicycles is one such niche that after many years on the margins, is seeing rapid growth in sales. This…
Remarkable Turnaround for Symbolic College Street Bike Path
Five years ago, one of the most heavily used protected bicycle paths in Australia that had been built at a cost of five million dollars, was ripped out upon the orders of an anti-cycling Roads Minister. The state was New South Wales, the path was along College Street that borders Hyde Park in the CBD…
Global Bike Company Results Start to Reflect Covid Bike Boom
New Australian Museum of MTB Would Love Dealer Input
Willunga is a small South Australian town 47 km south of Adelaide. From a cycling perspective, it’s most famous for being nestled at the base of Willunga Hill, which for 20 years since its inception has hosted the ‘Queen Stage’ of the Tour Down Under. But there’s now a new cycling attraction which rather than…
Trek Moving to Fully Recyclable Bike Packaging
Atherton Bikes Crowdfunding Campaign Quickly Oversubscribed
How’s Business? – November 2020
Welcome to our monthly conversation with bicycle shop owners across Australia and New Zealand. It would be lovely to have a break from talking about the Covid-19 impact upon the bicycle industry, not only for the relatively trivial reason of editorial variety, but because, as the pandemic drags on, it’s really starting to put a…
“I Don’t Want Bikes to Become the Next Hand Sanitiser!”
We recently visited Pon.Bike Australia, the only major bicycle wholesaler to be headquartered in Adelaide, SA. Pon’s major bike brands include Focus, Cervélo and Kalkhoff. It is a subsidiary of Pon Holdings, one of the Netherlands largest companies with over 12,000 employees worldwide and business units across automotive, bike and various industrial and engineering services.…