bike industry

With the MADE bike show in the rearview mirror, I got to thinking about how the "builder" part of the industry feels separate from the "manufacturer" part of…

As a lot of people are aware, things are not well in the velo-verse. The fundamentals (e.g. inventory to cash ratios) have been bad for nearly two full…

This one is really for bike industry product managers and marketers, but read on, because you might find it amusing. On the Paceline, each week, we talk about…

A new model year can be exciting. New things often are. But a time stamp is also a license to depreciate. Every new model year becomes a past model year, even…

A month or so back I wrote a post about it being a particularly optimal time to buy a new bike, due to a massive glut of post-pandemic inventory. That post…

This week Robot takes another look at the lingering consequences of a pandemic and what it has wrought on the bike industry economy. Spoiler alert: Lots of…

ICYMI on The Paceline last week. I am not an economist. You know that, but I’m saying it now, because I’m going to remind you I said it in just a minute.…

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