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Turramurra’s New Fitout in Pictures
If you read last month’s ‘How’s Business?’ you might remember reading Brad Prescott’s comments about how refitting their store had improved both business in general and customer traffic flow and...
View ArticleMelbourne Electric Bicycles Opens New Store in Perth
Perth Electric Bike Centre is Perth’s newest and largest ebike store. It’s the second store for Melbourne Electric Bicycles founders Baron Katranski and Nathan Reizer.“We’ve just opened last week,”...
View ArticleOmafiets Dutch Bicycles Moves and Expands
Omafiets, which means ‘Grandma Bike’ is a unique bike shop in the inner south western Sydney suburb of Marrickville that sells a mixture of new and used Dutch style bicycles.The used bikes are imported...
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Inside Rapha Cycle Club Sydney One Year On
In our Sep/Oct/Nov 2013 print edition of Bicycling Trade we ran a story and photos from the opening night of the brand new Rapha Cycle Club Sydney.This is an up market premises in Crown Street, Surry...
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SOLA Sport Acquires a Second Sydney Bicycle Store
Major wholesaler SOLA Sport, whose brands include Bianchi, Peugeot, Netti and Fox racing shocks have now acquired two prominent Sydney bicycle stores.As mentioned in a previous edition of Bicycling...
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Cycles Galleria Opens Fourth Store in Two Years
Melbourne based Cycles Galleria have just opened a new store inside the headquarters of global cycling brand Knog’s design studio, located at 453 Church Street, Richmond.According to a press release...
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Stuart O’Grady To Open Unique New Bike Business
One of Australia’s most enduring and successful professional cyclists is now looking forward to the next era in his business life.After retiring well over a year ago, Stuart has settled back into his...
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Latest Pictures From Queensland’s Vibrant Bicycle Retail Scene
There are so many new bike shops, shop upgrades, moves and closures going on in Brisbane and the Gold Coast at the moment that it’s hard to keep track of them all.Those featured below are by no means...
View Article99 Bikes Opens 18th Store
In late October 99 Bikes opened their 18th store Australia wide and their second for Queensland’s Gold Coast. Their newest store is 99 Bikes Burleigh Heads, which is being managed by Marcus Rutter.
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Bike Shops, German Style
During my recent trip to Eurobike I took the opportunity to go for a couple of rides along the shores of Lake Constance.If you don’t take any ferry ride shortcuts, a bike ride around Lake Constance is...
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One Illawarra Shop Closes While Another Opens
Cycle Logic until recently, was an AvantiPlus shop in the central business district of Wollongong, NSW. It has recently closed, although as you can see from the attached photograph a notice on the door...
View ArticleBike Passion Opens in Penrith, NSW
A new bike shop opened late August in Penrith, which is at the base of the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, NSW.It’s owned by Justin Buck who was previously at Cyclery Northside for 14 years.“I started...
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Bike Ride Moves and Expands
Hobart city centre retailer Bike Ride has moved a grand total of five metres from 74a Liverpool Street to 74 Liverpool Street Hobart.The new premises is larger, but most importantly is all on one...
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City Bike Depot Goes Into Liquidation
City Bike Depot is a Sydney city centre store, started from scratch in late 2005 by long time bicycle industry member Hugh Flower.Hugh had previously worked at Bike Addiction in Sydney’s northern...
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New Specialist MTB Store Opens in Sydney
There are specialist MTB stores in Brisbane, Melbourne and elsewhere, but surprisingly there has been a gap in the market in Australia’s most populous city, until now.Summit Cycles has recently opened...
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Alltrack Bicycles Closes
lAlltrack Bicycles was a relatively new shop opened in the southern outer Sydney suburb of Heathcote by Murray Mackney.Unfortunately it has recently closed.Heathcote is a relatively small community to...
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AvantiPlus Wollongong Closes
In late 2014 AvantiPlus Wollongong closed. The store, which was at 4 Regent Street Wollongong was one of four shops within a short radius of the centre of town. Owner Mark ‘Kegs’ Keegan is now working...
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BikeBug Opens in Melbourne
BikeBug started with one retail store in North Sydney, in 2005 but has been rapidly expanding since then.They’ve just opened a large store in the inner eastern Melbourne suburb of Prahran. It’s in the...
View ArticleGateshead Cycles Moves and Expands
Having been established in 1973, Gateshead Cycles is one of the oldest shops in the Newcastle region of NSW.Eighteen months ago Ian Simpson bought the shop from Michael Duffey. Late last year he moved...
View ArticleAction Bicycles Chermside Closes
Wholesalers hurried to the premises of Action Cycles in the northern Brisbane suburb of Chermside on Friday 16th January to collect their stock.Action Bicycles was run for many years by Guy Berger....
View ArticleWell Known Melbourne Bike Shop Destroyed by Fire
One of Melbourne’s oldest and largest bicycle stores caught fire on Thursday 22nd January.AvantiPlus Ray’s Preston has been trading in the same premises at 545 High Street Preston for 37 years. It’s...
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This Bike Shop Takes ‘Street Presence’ to a Whole New Level
Street presence is a term you’d typically hear commercial real estate agents using when they’re trying to sell or lease you an expensive premises.They use it to describe how wide the store frontage is,...
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Two Mega Clothing Ideas!
Claude Altin’s busy Mega Bike store is located in the city centre of Adelaide, on its main shopping street, Rundle Street, just a few doors down from the eastern end of Rundle Mall.It’s a strong...
View ArticleNew Bike Shop About to Open in Victoria
Richard Hale is about to open a new bicycle store in the Victorian northern regional city of Mildura. Richard previously managed the local Bicycle Superstore, when the chain had a store in Mildura.The...
View ArticleCycleworld to Move and Expand
Cycleworld is already one of western Sydney’s largest and busiest stores. They’ve been located at 11 Burwood Road, Burwood for many years but due to the impending demolition of that building, they’re...
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New Bike Shop Opens in Brisbane
V1 Cyclery is Brisbane’s newest bicycle store, having held their grand opening party on Sunday 22nd MarchTheir new website says, ‘V1 Cyclery is the creation of Steve Geiszler & Zac Collins. Steve...
View ArticleClarence Street Cyclery Manager Heads to 99 Bikes
John Thomson, former Store Manager at Clarence Street Cyclery in Sydney, is starting this Friday in a new role at 99 Bikes.“I was most recently at Clarence St for five years and nine months, but I’ve...
View ArticleGran Prix’s New Owner Sees Industry Potential
Long established Melbourne bike shop Gran Prix Bicycles is now owned by a couple completely new to the industry.For many years Gran Prix was run by Stephen Hart and his partner Kay Marr. Stephen, who...
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Wheelhaus Moves to Double Its Floor Space
Wheelhaus is a high end niche bicycle store in the inner city Sydney suburb of Enmore.We featured the store, not long after it opened in our December 2013 online edition as part of a feature entitled...
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