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Welcome to our monthly conversation with bicycle dealers. As always, we phoned dealers from across Australia and one from New Zealand and simply asked, “How’s business?” For this month’s follow up question we asked, “How were your Christmas sales compared to previous years, particularly for kids' bikes?” Phil Lockwood from Cycle2 in Launceston, Tasmania said: As everyone would probably understand, …
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Adelaide, SA. The Tour Down Under is heading for its 25th anniversary with some renewed momentum after a successful event this January. This article will barely mention the race itself – leaving that for consumer media, but instead will focus upon trade events and related activities that surround the race itself. From an industry perspective, the Tour Expo at the …
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Brookvale Bike Factory is located in the heart of Sydney’s affluent Northern Beaches region. It’s one of the largest, longest established and most successful independent bike shops in the entire region. “We’ve been in business for over 30 years,” recalled second generation owner Andrew Taylor. We started out as Favourite Cycles in …
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Sydney NSW. I recently had the opportunity to visit and take photos of Trek’s flagship store in Sydney. (Thanks to the team and management!) For over 40 years this store was known as Clarence Street Cyclery, which was founded and run by the Cook family. Throughout this time, Clarence Street Cyclery, which sold many different bike brands over the years, …
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Canberra, ACT. Occasionally over the years when reporting on the latest bicycle import data, I’ve made passing references to P&A data, but this is the first time that we’ve taken a deeper look at the data that’s available. In addition to collecting specific data on complete bicycles, Australian Border Force also has tariff codes for eight different categories of P&A, …
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Bicycle import data for September to November 2023 has now been released. These are traditionally peak months for import volumes, as wholesalers land their Christmas / summer season stocks. And although the monthly numbers are up compared to the previous 10 months, compared to the corresponding months in previous years, numbers are still well down, even when compared to pre-covid …
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Lusty Becomes New Distributor of Transition. Transition is a high-end enthusiast MTB brand that was founded in 2001 in Washington State, USA. For many years the brand has been distributed in Australia by Brisbane based importer wholesaler SuperSports, owned by Rodney Jess. Newcastle, NSW based Lusty Industries has recently taken over as the exclusive distributor. Founder Johnny McLean told The …
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Adelaide, SA. In terms of their environmental impact, bicycles are already far more sustainable than other means of transport so should we bother to try to further lower the footprint of our industry? Some members already think so and attended the first annual Sustainability Forum run by Bicycle Industries Australia (BIA) on Wednesday 17th January during the Tour Down Under. …
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Adelaide, SA. E-Bikes have transformed both the Australian and global bicycle industries in terms of making them larger and, at least potentially, more profitable than ever before. But two serious challenges are threatening to derail this growth. Of these, fire is the most acute right now. The second, battery recycling, is only just entering many industry members’ consciousness, because with …
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Adelaide, SA. Bicycle Industries Australia (BIA) which is the national industry body for the Australian bicycle retail and wholesale sectors held its annual general meeting in Adelaide on Thursday 18th January. Retailers currently pay $99 + GST in annual membership fees, while wholesalers pay a flat rate of $1,800 + GST, regardless of their size. In recent years the total …
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The End of WiggleCRC in Australia? A recent article in Bike Europe implied that WiggleCRC’s days in Australia could be over for ever. At their peak about from about 15 years ago to a decade ago UK based Wiggle and Northern Ireland based Chain Reaction Cycles were both widely disliked names amongst Australian bicycle retailers. One particular bone of contention …
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Bentleigh, Vic. Dear Sir, From my seat, it looks like Advanced Traders/99 Bikes continued their bullish ordering and were not reading the tea leaves when the pandemic was coming to a close. They filled their warehouses to the rafters when most other suppliers were carefully cancelling or trimming some orders and taking close note of the market’s downward trend. Their …
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