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Sydney, NSW. Trek stepped up its direct-to-consumer online sales in Australia last month, expanding its e-commerce across the full Trekbikes.com site. The US-based company launched an e-commerce compatibility across its website in October 2021, working in partnership with the brand’s retailers to allow customers to bikes close to them and purchase items from a local store. “We are now expanding …
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During the Covid pandemic I wrote two articles predicting what would happen in the future of the bike industry as a result of Covid’s ‘big disruption’.The first one was posted on 17th December 2020 and the follow-up was posted on 23rd September 2021.There’s a strong chance you might have read either or both of these articles, because they were two …
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Eaglehawk, Victoria. Central Victorian town Eaglehawk lost an institution when Major’s Eaglehawk Sports & Cycles store officially closed its doors last week, after more than 50 years in business. The store’s owner operators, Norma Major and her son Peter, have decided they’re ready for a more relaxing life and the store – the only sports store in Eaglehawk’s history – …
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North Carolina, US. Online bike retailer BikeExchange (BEX) has announced it is scrapping the ready-to-ride bicycle delivery service by its Kitzuma subsidiary in the US, which it had earmarked to be replicated in its existing markets. During BikeExchange’s half-yearly financial report to shareholders last week, the company declared it would not be resuming Kitzuma’s ready-to-ride delivery service, which it...
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Perth, WA. WA bike store Bike Force Clarkson is enjoying its shift to a much larger premises last month, in a recent succession of change for former owner Tom Austin. The store shifted just 300m down the Key Largo Drive, from what had become a cramped 180m2 store to 350m2 premise with around 50m of window frontage and a site …
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Sydney, NSW. Dates have been confirmed for this year’s Micromobility Conference, with a new delegate-friendly schedule that is midweek and earlier in the calendar. The 2023 event will be held on 24th-25th October and will return to Sydney’s Royal Randwick Racecourse. “It’s an important shift to mid-week dates to be more convenient for business and government representatives, who will be …
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Sydney, NSW. A last-minute change in e-bike motor legislation in NSW has bike industry leaders confused about the purpose of the amendment. On 24th February, the Government announced the NSW Minister for Metropolitan Roads, Natalie Wards, had changed legislation limiting the maximum power of e-bike motors allowed on public roads. It increased the permissible level…
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Osaka, Japan. Bike commuting’s global emergence into the transportation mainstream has been highlighted by the recent releases of three major players in the industry. Shimano, Trek and POC have unveiled new products with features targetting the practical needs of “everyday” cyclists. Shimano says its newly launched Cues line-up of components represents “a brand-new...
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Melbourne, Vic. Back in May 2021, we managed to sneak into ‘Fortress Victoria’ between Covid lockdowns and take photos of Bikecorp’s then brand new headquarters while it was still a hard hat construction zone, about a month before they started to move in. The new warehouse is located in a brand new industrial precinct next to Moorabbin Airport, in the …
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Perth, WA. Bike mechanic training enterprise The Bicycle Academy has expanded its operations into Perth and Auckland, with courses set to start at those centres in July. The academy, established by the bicycle retail and wholesale company Pedal Group and training organisation Industry Graduates, has established training facilities in Perth suburb of Osborne Park and East Tamaki in Auckland. The …
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Melbourne, Victoria. Melbourne-based company Knog has foreshadowed it’s about to get a lot more upfront with its lighting designs, with the imminent release of a new range of high-powered headlights. Knog cofounder and owner Hugo Davidson predicted the range, scheduled for release in April, will be a gamechanger despite..
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Munich, Germany. The horizons for future e-bike designs opened considerably last month, when Munich-based e-cargo bike company Mocci became the first brand to go into production using a chainless drive system developed by fellow German company Schaeffler. The Free Drive system, unveiled back in August 2021 and now incorporated into Mocci’s Smart Pedal Vehicles, opens up new...
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Taichung, Taiwan. SRAM Group is investing A$490 million (10 million New Taiwan dollars) in a new Taiwan plant, the US company announced last month. The new plant, in Taichung's Tanzi District, will consolidate all of the company’s existing production facilities in the east-Asian country, developed during the company’s three decades in Taiwan. SRAM's vice president of global manufacturing...
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Stavanger, Norway. Norway’s Podbike has finally started delivering its Frikar light electric vehicle to customers, eight years after cofounder Per Hassel Sørensen embarked on a journey to build a better bike. "After all the stops and starts, engineering challenges, a global pandemic, a shortage of computer chips, and a painful trimming of staff last year to keep our cash-burn low, …
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Oregon, US. A US company at the forefront of light electric vehicle production, Arcimoto, hasaccrued a total of US$18 million (A$26.71 million) in funding during the past two months, and late last month resumed production for 2023. Arcimoto recorded a nett loss of approximately US$17 million (A$25.28 million) in the third quarter of 2022, compared with a nett loss of …
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