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Pony Bikes Charges Ahead
As you can see from these images, Pony Bikes is not your typical store. Owner Sasha Strickland, who preferred not to be photographed when Bicycling Trade visited, founded the business in 2008 and has...
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From Holden Cars to Bicycles
Sean Reynolds recently decided that the timing was right to take a redundancy package from General Motors Holden and open a new bike store just down the road in the centre of Elizabeth, SA.Thousands of...
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Giant Perth Opens in the City Centre
Jeff Appleton, the long time owner of two successful Cyclebuzz stores in suburban Perth, has teamed up with Giant to open the brand new Giant Perth concept store.Bicycling Trade recently visited the...
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Michael Blyth Returns To Work
You may have seen some articles we’ve run over recent months about Michael Blyth, a young Victorian mountain biker who works part time at The Angry Butcher bike shop in Sunbury, Victoria. Michael was...
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New Kidsons Features Best of Both City and Country
Kidsons Cycles has notched up 37 years, four owners and a brand new store, in a 91 year old building.Country bike shops can often pick up multiple brands more easily than their city cousins where zone...
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‘Old School’ Bike Shop Turns Five
Until about the 1980’s it was not uncommon for bike shops to not only sell bikes that were branded with their shop name, but to make at least some of those bikes in house.Cycles Bespoke is a relatively...
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Colour & Style Sets This Bike Shop Apart
If you read our Dec/Jan/Feb print edition of Bicycling Trade magazine you would recall our feature story entitled ‘Going Dutch’ where we showed photos from a range of Amsterdam bike shops and featured...
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Family Heritage Shapes New Panther Cycles
Panther Cycles has been part of local cycling scene at Penrith since 1978. It’s also a family business with two brothers, Dave and Andy Richardson full time at the store and their parents taking a...
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Velo Cycles Opens Second Store… 100 Metres Away.
Paul Shub already owns one of Melbourne’s newer but most successful bicycle stores. Velo Cycles is uniquely located in a State Government property adjacent to the highly popular Capital City Bike...
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Robert’s Back In Parramatta
Tight geographical groupings of bike shops have been a recurring theme that we’ve been writing about over recent months in Bicycling Trade.There are examples in just about every Australian city of bike...
View ArticleNew Ownership and Directions for Le Knicks
Le Knicks, a unique store in a unique location, has recently changed hands. The store is on Melbourne’s famous Beach Road bay side cycling strip, along with three other specialist bike stores that feed...
View ArticleTwo ‘Second’ Sydney Stores Open
99 Bikes has just opened its second Sydney store at 521 Pittwater Road, Brookvale. The store opened on Monday 17th February, led by Store Manager Gilbert Gutowski. Most 99 Bikes stores are still based...
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Photos of Clarence Street Upgrade, Stage Two
Last May re ran a story and photos of Clarence Street Cyclery’s major renovation to the ground floor of their three level store, which is in the centre of Sydney.The store consists of retail space on...
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Renegade Cycles Heads West!
After many years in the heart of the busy, but ever so expensive commercial centre of Lane Cove, Renegade Cycles has moved to a more suburban location, just 900 metres west along the same road.Lane...
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Is Another Bike Store Opening in Chapel Street?
Chapel Street Prahran is the heart of Melbourne’s inner city chic cycling district.Mojo Bike was one of six bike businesses located on or near this retail strip. Unlike its long established neighbours...
View ArticleBikes Direct to Open Third Store Next Month
Bikes Direct already run two large stores in the south eastern suburbs of Melbourne. On 18th March they’re planning to open a third store at Hoppers Crossing which is in Melbourne’s outer west.The new...
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Major Sydney Store Closes Owing over $500,000
One of Sydney’s largest bicycle stores has recently closed. Velosophy was an impressive, two level, high end bicycle store that opened about four years ago.It was located in The Entertainment Quarter,...
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Please Tell Us About Your Workshop!
We’re conducting a survey to learn more about bicycle retailers’ workshops around Australia.With your help, we’ll be able to publish interesting results in our next print edition of Bicycling Trade...
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Third 99 Bikes Store For Sydney and Another for Brisbane
Just months after 99 Bikes opened their second Sydney store in Brookvale (pictured here), a third 99 Bikes store is about to open in the old Bike Lab bike shop site in Bondi Junction. The target...
View ArticleFormer Velosophy Site Reopens as ‘The Lab’
Last month we reported that Velosophy, a large, high end bike store in the Fox Studios Entertainment Quarter in Sydney had closed, owing over $500,000.Now a new bicycle business has taken over the...
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