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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…
Bafang Booms While Continental Closes
Continental Bicycle Systems recently announced that it is pulling out of the e-bike market. Continental has been making motors and drive system electronics. The company first announced this decision to its staff of about 100 employees. Production is to be phased-out in the first quarter of 2020. Antje Lewe, Spokeswoman ContiTech and Head of External…
First ‘Production Ready’ 3D Printed Carbon Bicycle Frame Launched
There have been various announcements and samples of 3D printed bicycle frames for five years now. But until now, no-one has claimed to have a 3D printed frame that is production ready. The frame at the centre of this new claim was developed by Italian technology company Atala which is 50% owned by the Accell…
New Survey Reveals Market Rankings for Ebike Drives
Bosch is the number one brand of ebike drive systems based upon a survey of all bikes exhibited at this year’s Eurobike Show, which was held from 4th – 7th September this year. German based specialist ebike media company ExtraEnergy, surveyed every single bike on display at this year’s show. In total there were 3,952…