Posts Tagged ‘Marc Sani’
It’s Time for the Tour Down Under to Say No to Santos
Adelaide, SA If you look back through the Opinion section of The Latz Report, you’ll see I use my prerogative as publisher to voice an opinion very sparingly. There are only a couple of dozen opinion pieces since we started in 2019, most of which are non-controversial and two of which were written by guests.…
The More You Learn, The More You Earn!
Wollongong, NSW Years ago, a long-time friend and long-distance mentor of mine, Marc Sani (author of our Letter from America column), taught me a lesson I’ve always tried to implement. “Your readers don’t care what you think, they just want to know the facts! So just report the facts and keep your opinions to yourself.”…
Why Batteries Are Not So Green!
Santa Fe, New Mexico It’s fair to say that e-bikes, especially e-mountain bikes, dominate discussion throughout the global bicycle market. Companies big, small and mid-size are betting that e-bike demand will lift the industry to soaring heights of new profits, driven by a near-universal acceptance—at least within the industry—that e-bikes could be a significant factor…
Beware of Higher Prices!
By Marc Sani Recently, I flatted while on a mountain bike ride in a rugged section of terrain some five kilometres from the trailhead. No serious mountain biker riding on tubeless tires rides without at least two key items—a spare inner tube and a 50 gram container of Stan’s tire sealant. It took only a…
Will the Major Brands Become Even More Dominant?
The pandemic is reshaping the bicycle industry and it’s time to pay attention. Let’s state it plainly: the largest companies in the industry have gotten bigger, more powerful, and with a deeper hold on bicycle spec and retail sales.
The result? Increased market power and dominance by the few over the many. It’s been a trend, a long-time in the making, and the pandemic will, perhaps, further accelerate ongoing consolidation particularly impacting small to midsize brands.
2020 Numbers Reveal the Bike Boom’s Impact
By Marc Sani Set aside any doubts: The insurrection that swallowed our nation’s Capital Jan. 6 will reverberate for years to come. At the moment, no one knows where the country is headed—exactly. But “The Troubles,” an oft used phrase to describe the 30-year conflict in Northern Ireland, may signify the sort of long-term, low-level…
America’s Bike Sales Boom Continues… For Now
Letter from America: USA’s Numbers Are Up!
It’s a pleasure to report good news about the United States bicycle industry. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic currently sweeping through far too many states, coupled with the shambolic response of the Trump Administration, bicycle sales in the first six months of 2020 have been sharply at odds with much of the nation’s sour health and…
Letter from America – June 2020
Letter from America – May 2020
Get Ready to Face a New Economy SANTA FE, New Mexico—Covid-19 is fast changing the U.S economy, forcing a re-think of globalization and supply chain dependence, and turning the world of brick-and-mortar retail topsy-turvy. No one knows when the global economy will begin to ‘normalize’, as the experts like to say, and certainly no one…