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Steve’s Having Fun in the City
Amazingly, in a city the size of Perth, with population of over 1.8 million, there is currently only one bike shop within the CBD proper and one another on its eastern fringe.Every other Australian...
View ArticleBike Shop For Sale… If You’re Quick!
Ben Larsen is the owner of three Sydney bike stores, all trading under the banner of Pedals Plus. He recently decided that he would close his Pedals Plus Bondi Junction store, when the lease on the...
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New Giant Company Owned Store Opening Soon.
Hampton Road is certainly not the busiest retail street in Melbourne, but it’s in the heart of prime cycling retail territory.At its northern end is Brighton, which boasts three bike stores, all either...
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Grant Rice to Sell Richmond Cyclery
After 10 years since founding Richmond Cyclery in the inner eastern Melbourne suburb of Richmond, Grant Rice says he’s ready to try something outside the bike industry.Before starting his own store,...
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‘Premature’ Retirement Leads to New eBike Store
Giancarlo Zanol had a long and successful career owning a substantial industrial engineering supplies company called Skilled Materials Handling.He sold the business about 4 years ago and settled into a...
View ArticleCommitted Cycles Cannington Closes… Then Reopens
This February we ran a photo feature on Avantiplus Cannington and commented that it was one of four bike shops virtually in sight of each other on the same stretch of road in the Perth south eastern...
View ArticleAshburton Cycles Is For Sale
Glendon Crowe is putting his store, Ashburton Cycles on the market.“I love the lifestyle this store has given me compared to the two other stores I have owned in the past (ACR Triathlete and Bicycle...
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Unique Bike Retail Opportunity Now at Prime Sydney Site
The City of Sydney wants to create a world class ‘Bike Hub’ in an prime, high exposure city location.Several years ago the city purchased an unusual, old three story round fronted brick commercial...
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What’s Going On With Bums On Bikes?
One of Australia’s largest purpose built bicycle stores, Bums on Bikes at Strathpine in Brisbane’s far northern suburbs, has just closed its doors. Until recently, Bums on Bikes was one of Australia’s...
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Sugoi Opens New Concept ‘Store Within a Store’
River City Cycles is a leading Cannondale dealer in Brisbane’s south eastern suburbs, owned and run by Craig Saunders. It’s always had above average presentation for a suburban store, but now it...
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Has Livelo Found a New Market for Bike Shops?
Short term bike hire businesses have been around for decades. But until now they’ve mainly hired out basic cruiser style bicycles for tourists visiting iconic waterfront parks in our major capital...
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Giant Bicycles Open New Company Owned Store
A few years ago Giant Bicycles opened their first company owned store in the city centre of Adelaide. Now they’ve just opened a second one in Melbourne.I recently met Giant’s CEO Darren Rutherford and...
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Which New Store Will Stock Up To 1,560 Bicycles?
When you’ve already got 560 built up bicycles on display on your showroom floor, how many Australian dealers think that they would also need another 1,000 on the premises as back up stock?Only one that...
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Inside The New Look Clarence St Cyclery
Clarence Street Cyclery is not the largest bike shop in Australia in terms of floor space, but many wholesalers will tell you that it’s their biggest account for a single location store.That’s partly...
View ArticleHow Does Your Shop Compare?
A recently released major survey of bicycle retailers around Australia revealed some very interesting data about their size, trading conditions and major concerns. The stores on average were 244 square...
View ArticleBicycles Online Make the 2013 BRW Fast Starters List
Each year, Business Review Weekly (BRW) Magazine publishes a list of the top 100 fastest growing start-up businesses in Australia. In a year regarded as being the most difficult in the lists’ history,...
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The Little Mule Bucks the Trend
Over the years, bike shops have gradually become bigger, carrying more stock and moving towards major international bike brands.The Little Mule is a tiny Melbourne shop doing exactly the opposite. They...
View ArticleCell Bikes to Open Melbourne Store
Well known bicycle retailer Cell Bikes currently operates one retail outlet at 148 Parramatta Rd, Stanmore, in Sydney’s inner western suburbs. But they’re better known for their Australia wide internet...
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New 99 Bikes Store Opening in Fitzroy North
99 Bikes is about to open their third store in Melbourne. The premises, on the corner of Smith Street and Queens Parade Fitzroy North is about 70 metres along Queens Parade from one of Melbourne’s...
View ArticleRide On Closes
A long established Melbourne bike store has just closed. Ride On Bikes Kew is owned by Ash Scott. On 17th June suppliers were visiting the store to reclaim their stock before the doors closed.Back in...
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