Damien Departs Flemington Cycles for Fruitful New Career

Flemington Cycles store exterior

Melbourne, Victoria Inner Melbourne bike store Flemington Cycles is set to be sold this month, with long-term owner Damien Lack departing on a radical career change. After owning the suburban store for 27 years, Damien is joining his father-in-law in a growing biosecurity business specialising in fruit fly control. The sale of the specialist Giant…

How’s Business – August 2020

Welcome to our monthly conversation with six bike shops selected from across Australia and New Zealand. Knowing in advance that bicycle stock shortages would be a topical response this month, our follow up question was, ‘Do you think it’s possible for a workshop to be a profit centre in its own right?’ Damien Lack of…

How’s Business? November 2019

Welcome to our monthly chat with a diverse selection of bicycle shop owners from throughout Australia and New Zealand. We could not have had a much larger geographic spread this month, including store owners from Cairns, Darwin, Perth and Havelock North, which is on the east coast of New Zealand. As always, we start by…