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Tenders Raising the Challenge to Delivery Vans in Australian Cities
Melbourne, Victoria Australia’s commercial cargo bike market is stepping up to join the heavyweights. Melbourne-based distributor Dutch Cargo this month brought in Australia’s first Urban Arrow Tenders, flatbed delivery trikes with car-like front wheels and the load capacity and configurations to raise the challenge to delivery vans. Dutch Cargo has initially brought in two Tenders,…
FE Sports Distributing Lightweight Wheels
Brisbane, Queensland Brisbane’s FE Sports is partnering with German wheel manufacturer Lightweight to begin distributing its high-performance wheels in Australia and New Zealand from the start of next month. Lightweight has been developing wheels for race bikes for more than 20 years, in the pursuit of “creating the perfect wheel”. Its hand-made wheels are produced…
The Bike Collective Introduces Brooklyn to Australia
Adelaide, South Australia Prominent US urban bike brand Brooklyn Bicycle Co is partnering with Adelaide-based distributor The Bike Collective to introduce the brand to Australia. The two companies announced The Bike Collective would offer Brooklyn’s most popular models and will start shipping to Australian retailers in late February. Pre-orders are available for each of the…
Equity Partner Take-Over Gives Enviolo Added Drive
Amsterdam, the Netherlands UK private equity partner Inflexion has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Netherlands-based company enviolo, which developed a popular continuously variable transmission hub. Enviolo, which also has operations in Texas, designs and develops transmission systems for high-quality e-bikes, predominantly for the European and North American markets. The company’s proprietary hubs don’t have…
Specialized Introduces Consumer-Direct Sales in Australia
Port Melbourne, VIC Specialized Bicycle Components Australia is introducing ‘Ship to Home’ and ‘Specialized Delivery’ options for bikes purchased online. Its announcement of the new services last week came shortly after Specialized confirmed it was beginning consumer-direct sales in the US and UK for non-electric bikes. A spokesperson for Specialized Bicycle Components Australia said Specialized…
Last Chance to Update your 2022 YearBook Listing – Do It Now!
Wollongong, NSW This month is your last opportunity to update your company details for the 2022 Latz Report YearBook and we have a new system up and running to make it easier. We only update Yearbook listings once a year, so please action this opportunity right now! All standard listings are free for any supplier…
Children’s Bike Imports Up, Adults Down for Current Financial Year
Canberra, ACT As we previously reported, despite supply shortages, the 2020/2021 financial year was by far an all-time record for bicycle imports to Australia. But how is the current financial year faring so far? At the time of writing, we have Australian Customs import data for the first five months of the current financial year:…
Exclusive Interview: 99 Bikes’ Departing Founder Reflects upon Lessons, Wins and Massive Future Expansion
Brisbane, Queensland When Matt Turner founded 99 Bikes in 2007, he had no prior bike industry experience, apart from being a keen triathlete being a dissatisfied customer of his local bike stores. Little did those stores who gave him bad service at the time realise, they’d be sowing the seed for what is already by…
Brisbane Companies Align to Maximise Market Opportunities
Brisbane, Queensland E-Bike manufacturer Moov8 has joined forces with fellow Queensland company Advance Traders to boost the brand’s presence in the Australian market. The Brisbane company was established a little of a year ago to create e-bikes, scooters and other mobility devices and announced this month it had signed Advance Traders as the Australian distributor…
Five Predictions for Industry Direction in 2022
Little Rock, USA US bike industry commentator Rick Vosper has published his predictions for a number of possible developments in the American bike industry for 2022. At least some of his projections in ‘Five things that might happen in 2022. Or Not’, published online this week in Bicycle Retailer and Industry News, could just as…