Posts Tagged ‘mountain bikes’
MTB Pioneer Selling Melbourne Store
Melbourne, Victoria Mountain bike pioneer Simon Jamison has enjoyed the spoils of taking an unorthodox path – in sport and in business – and now he’s put his Melbourne store on the market. He opened one of Australia’s first – if not the first – dedicated mountain bike stores in the late 1980s and, more…
Crankworx Coming to Cairns
Cairns, Queensland The world’s biggest mountain bike festival, Crankworx, has added Cairns to the event’s destinations in 2022. Smithfield Mountain Bike Park will host this year’s third stop for the Crankworx World Tour, from 5th to 9th October, giving the bike industry another major platform to promote its products and services to the Australian market.…
Atherton Bikes Crowdfunding Campaign Quickly Oversubscribed
Mountain Bikes – Will the MTB Sales Boom Continue?
There’s no doubt that mountain bike sales have been going through a boom over recent years. To our industry’s collective disadvantage, unlike the USA and Europe, in Australia we don’t collaborate to produce sales statistics broken down to type of bike. Therefore this article can only be based upon anecdotal evidence from within Australia and…
Research Shows that Ebike Riders are Not ‘Cheating’
A research paper published by members of Brigham Young University in the USA has concluded that eMTB riders are working their bodies almost as hard as those on regular bikes. In the study, 33 regular MTB riders aged 18 to 65 formed the pool, with each participant tracked via Strava over a 10 kilometre loop…