Posts Tagged ‘Highlight’
Tour de France 2020 Was Remarkable, Both On and Off the Bike
Against all odds and a backdrop of an exponentially growing second wave of Coronavirus in France, the 2020 Tour de France proved to be one of the most successful and dramatic in living memory. It’s hard enough to keep professional teams sports like football and basketball operating in a ‘bubble’ when they’re confined within stadiums.…
Identification is a Key Component to Reducing Bike Theft
– Sponsored Content – Bike theft doesn’t just leave the bike owner feeling devastated. Customer concern about potential theft is a major impediment to bike shops selling more bikes and bikes of greater value. A bike lock is a necessary deterrent to opportunistic theft but on its own offers little protection against determined recidivist bike…
Three Retailers Share Why They Offer Consumer Finance
– Sponsored Content – Should you be offering consumer credit in your store, and if so, through which provider? We recently spoke to three Australian bicycle retailers who could hardly have been more diverse in terms of their geographical spread and business formats. One business has been built around bike hire and hosting rides on…
MicroSHIFT – Offers High Quality and Value for Money
– Sponsored Content – Queensland-based KWT Imports has recently been appointed as the Australian distributor for MicroSHIFT and will be offering this great quality drive-train product through its extensive dealer network. MicroSHIFT, a Taiwanese drivetrain brand, has been flying under the radar for some time, building OEM spec components since 1999. Recently, MicroSHIFT came out…
How’s Business? – September 2020
Welcome to our monthly conversation with six bike shops selected from across Australia and New Zealand. This month our follow up question was, ‘Which products are in shortest supply for you right now and how long do you think it will be until you get adequate supplies?’ As you would expect, dealers were all still…
How Sustainable are the Products You Sell?
Most of us in the bicycle industry already well understand that cycling is a sustainable mode of transport and provides positive environmental outcomes through its contribution to urban mobility and transport solutions. It is also reasonably well accepted that the bicycle brings about community cohesion and social sustainability in areas where bikes are ridden frequently…
Thanks for Your Support of Our New Online YearBook – Print Edition Coming!
Bicycle trade members have immediately embraced our electronic only format of The Latz Report YearBook 2020. In since going live on Friday 3rd July, The YearBook immediately jumped to our number one page on The Latz Report, even outranking our home page and recording 951 views for the last 28 days of July. Although the…
Survey of Australian Bike Dealers Documents Huge Sales Spike
Every bike industry member knows that bike sales have boomed since March. Empty bike dealer showrooms and wholesaler warehouses bear testament to this fact. But exactly how many extra bikes have been sold? Bicycle Industries Australia (BIA) recently conducted a nationwide survey of bicycle shops to answer this question. Before sharing the results, here are…
How BMX International Has Shaped the Story of BMX in Australia
– Sponsored Content – BMX International is the longest running BMX wholesale company in Australia and is possibly the longest running BMX specific company worldwide still operating with its original owners. Born in 1977, in the top office of Performance Cars in the inner Brisbane suburb of Lutwyche, the company which started the whole BMX…
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…