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Sydney, NSW. Year after year, independent bicycle dealers (IBD’s) miss out on sales of entry level bikes because the customer thinks it’s cheaper to buy a bike from K-Mart or another mass merchant. All of us in the bike industry know that most mass merchant bikes are rubbish! But it’s hard to get a sale over the line if your …
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Welcome to our monthly chat with bike shop owners across Australia and New Zealand. Firstly we’d like to thank Bikecorp, Australian distributor of Knog, for sponsoring our How’s Business column for the previous six months! This booking has run its course, so if you’re a wholesaler reading this that would like to sponsor our most popular, highly read column, then …
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A new player with an exceptional focus on new technology and innovation has emerged in Australia’s micromobility landscape. PedL, based in inner-Sydney, is introducing its Mamba brand of e-bikes to provide new cutting-edge solutions for the ever-evolving world of transportation. Business owners Kuda Kwatara and Tadana Maruta are focused on providing convenient and eco-friendly modes of …
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Annual Guide - E-bikes & Cargo Bikes
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I remember, back in the days when we still owned and published the quarterly print edition of Bicycling Trade magazine, boldly predicting that, “Within three years e-bikes would become a mainstream part of the Australian bicycle industry!” Unfortunately, I don’t own an archive of these magazines, so I can’t look up the year I wrote that prediction, but it was …
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Sydney, NSW. I recently visited Rapha’s Sydney ‘Clubhouse’ and was kindly given permission to take the photos that you see accompanying this article. A Global Brand We’ll look more closely at the Sydney premises in a moment, but first a global overview. Rapha was founded in London, UK in 2004 by Simon Mottram. It quickly became well known for its …
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It feels like a long time ago since we first launched what was then called the Bicycling Trade YearBook in 1996! Technology has certainly progressed since then, which is why we launched the online ‘flipbook’ version of the YearBook four years ago. That has consistently a been heavily used. It’s our second busiest page, after our home page, on The …
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Canberra, ACT. Bicycle import data for December 2023 has now been made available so we can compare the total imports for calendar year 2023 with previous years. The decline has been dramatic. In total 666,393 conventional (‘analogue’) bicycles were imported in 2023. That’s a drop of almost half a million units, 490,697 to be exact, since 2022’s total of 1,157,090.2023 …
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Sydney Showgrounds, NSW. Everything Electric returned for their second annual Australian expo, held from Friday 9th to Sunday 11th February 2024 at the Sydney Showgrounds. Last year, the event was branded the Fully Charged Show, matching the name of the YouTube channel founded by British actor Robert Llewellyn in 2010 that now has over one million subscribers worldwide. Everything Electric …
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Giant Opens ‘Big Box’ Retail Accounts in the USA Giant Group announced in early February that it will be selling via “approximately” 25 selected stores within the huge Dicks Sporting Goods (DSG) chain in the USA. Those stores are branded House of Sport, Public Lands and MooseJaw. According to Wikipedia, Dick's is the largest sporting goods retail company in the …
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Easy Cycles Announce Three Year Warranty Easy Cycles is a Western Australian based brand founded over 17 years ago by John and Marie Schelfhout. They’ve been passionate e-bike riders and advocates throughout this time, and their range is devoted to e-bikes and e-trikes for recreational, commuting and utility use. On 19th January they announced that they would be providing a …
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Taipei, Taiwan. For decades, Taipei Cycle has been one of the top three global cycle expos, along with Eurobike and China Cycle. The island nation of Taipei was particularly isolated right through covid, with the expo forced to run ‘virtual expos’ online. Even last year when the full expo resumed in person, exhibit and international visitor numbers were still down …
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