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Research Shows that Ebike Riders are Not ‘Cheating’
A research paper published by members of Brigham Young University in the USA has concluded that eMTB riders are working their bodies almost as hard as those on regular bikes. In the study, 33 regular MTB riders aged 18 to 65 formed the pool, with each participant tracked via Strava over a 10 kilometre loop…
Selle Royal Group is Looking for a Major Investor
Selle Royal Group includes not just Selle Royal saddles, but also fi’zi:k, Brooks, Crank Brothers and PedAL ED. It’s not yet clear what percentage of the company is up for sale. 2019 sales are projected to be 130 million Euro (A$211 million) and Ebitda (earnings before interest and depreciation) of 14.6 million Euro (A$24 million).…
Bike Society New Store Details Revealed
Back in September we ran this story about leading South Australian Retailer Bike Society who was looking to relocate their Blair Athol store. At the time, owner Mark Birkdale was not ready to reveal the full details of what he was planning. Now it has been confirmed via the Bike Society website that they’re not…
Sydney’s Newest Bike Store Opens
Specialist ebike retailer Sydney Electric Bikes has opened a brand new store at Engadine and relocated its Thornleigh store to a new site in Hornsby. The two news stores are virtually at the extreme northern and southern edges of the greater Sydney metropolitan region and both have close access to mountain biking trails. Sydney Electric…
Norm De Grandi Dies After 72 Years in the Bike Industry
One of Australia’s longest serving bicycle industry members passed away on 9th November 2019. He was 94 years old. Norm De Grandi left behind seven children, six of whom work in the iconic business that still carries his name, De Grandi Cycle & Sport in the Victorian city of Geelong. The business was started in…
New Service Lets You Recycle Your Tyres and Tubes
Most bike shop owners agree with the concept of recycling tyres and tubes, but unfortunately it has been quite difficult to do, until now. That’s because recycling tyres is an industrial scale process and the key company who does this work in Australia, Tyrecycle, will only accept large deliveries of used bicycle tyres and tubes.…
Inside An Australian Decathlon Store’s Bicycle Department
Decathlon is a massive French owned global retailer of sporting goods. They have over 1,500 stores across 55 countries and global sales were $17.7 billion dollars in 2017. Since Decathlon opened their first Australian store in Sydney two years ago, they’ve since opened another four, with another planned for 2020 along the way to their…
Cell Bike Brand Re-emerges in Australia
Cell Bikes are remembered in Australia as arguably the first major online retail company and discount bike brand. Cell Bikes declined as brand and business, before closing, then being acquired by Bicycles Online, the Sydney based importer and online retailer of bicycle brands including Polygon and Marin. Now the Cell Bikes brand has re-emerged in…
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…
TMO Sports Trials Innovative Social Media Based Marketing Strategy
After many years with a previous distributor, Continental Tyres moved their Australian bicycle tyre distribution to TMO Sports in November 2017. Continental also updated their mountain bike tyre range about 12 months ago. Continental has been a very strong road tyre brand here for many years, but TMO Sports was finding it tough to gain…