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Annual bike imports fall to lowest number in at least a decade (www.bicycleretailer.com)

submitted 19 hours ago by fake_meows@sopuli.xyz to c/mtb@lemmy.world

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Adult bicycle sales are down to just 1/3 of what they were before the covid boom, and new bike sales are still declining.

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[–] GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I think peak madness is I'm sort of shopping for a 20 or 24" bike for my little guy, and they are all right around the 1k mark for anything with a few gears. Might look to the bmx market for his next one honestly.

[–] SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Kids bikes are prime second hand material. All my friends kids have bikes from hard rubbish. Plus they get to teach the kid about basic bike servicing in the process.

[–] GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 hours ago

I would normally agree with you. We live in a prime mountain biking area though, and I want to get them started young as I want them to start accompanying me on trail rides, and I want my eldest to start racing in U8. I don't think I need to spend 4k on them to succeed like some people are, don't get me wrong, but I want them to have decent enough equipment to have a good start.

No disrespect to rubbish bikes though. I rode lots of rubbish bikes as a kid. They still will too I'm sure.