• Another one bites the dust...

    From JNugent@JNugent73@mail.com to uk.rec.cycling on Tue Dec 31 14:26:44 2024
    From Newsgroup: uk.rec.cycling

    <https://tinyurl.com/c6aes3az>

    QUOTE:
    The heartbroken owner of a bike shop on the high street for 30 years
    says he has been forced into shutting the business after a rCLvery toughrCY 2024. Customers say the impending closure of Romney Cycles just weeks
    into the new year will be a rCLloss to the communityrCY.

    Owner Steve James addressed loyal patrons of the New Romney business,
    saying: rCLItrCOs with great sadness, and the hardest decision IrCOve had to make, that Romney Cycles will be closing its doors. ItrCOs been a very
    tough year for a lot of small bike shop businesses with many having to
    close. We were hoping to ride that storm but itrCOs no longer viable to
    keep going".
    ENDQUOTE

    So just as it looked (to some) as though people were going to change
    en-masse from viable and efficient transport modes over to fairy-bikes,
    it didn't happen?

    But whatever made anyone think it WAS going to happen?

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  • From Spike@aero.spike@mail.com to uk.rec.cycling on Tue Dec 31 17:09:20 2024
    From Newsgroup: uk.rec.cycling

    JNugent <JNugent73@mail.com> wrote:
    <https://tinyurl.com/c6aes3az>

    QUOTE:
    The heartbroken owner of a bike shop on the high street for 30 years
    says he has been forced into shutting the business after a rCLvery toughrCY 2024. Customers say the impending closure of Romney Cycles just weeks
    into the new year will be a rCLloss to the communityrCY.

    Owner Steve James addressed loyal patrons of the New Romney business, saying: rCLItrCOs with great sadness, and the hardest decision IrCOve had to make, that Romney Cycles will be closing its doors. ItrCOs been a very
    tough year for a lot of small bike shop businesses with many having to close. We were hoping to ride that storm but itrCOs no longer viable to
    keep going".
    ENDQUOTE

    So just as it looked (to some) as though people were going to change en-masse from viable and efficient transport modes over to fairy-bikes,
    it didn't happen?

    But whatever made anyone think it WAS going to happen?

    A combination of wishful thinking and aggressive use of pavements (rCyfootwaysrCO).

    Plus, in the last few days:

    rCLFRI, DEC 20, 2024 10:26

    British cycling company Spoon Group, the owner-operator of bespoke bike
    brands Spoon Customs and WyndyMilla, as well as custom paint business Gun Control, has entered liquidation, following extensive efforts to adapt to
    what the grouprCOs owner described as the ongoing rCLchallenging market conditionsrCY affecting the bike industry in recent years.rCY

    <https://road.cc/content/news/spoon-and-wyndymilla-owner-enters-liquidation-311823>
    --
    Spike
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  • From JNugent@JNugent73@mail.com to uk.rec.cycling on Thu Jan 2 16:08:40 2025
    From Newsgroup: uk.rec.cycling

    On 31/12/2024 05:09 pm, Spike wrote:
    JNugent <JNugent73@mail.com> wrote:
    <https://tinyurl.com/c6aes3az>

    QUOTE:
    The heartbroken owner of a bike shop on the high street for 30 years
    says he has been forced into shutting the business after a rCLvery toughrCY >> 2024. Customers say the impending closure of Romney Cycles just weeks
    into the new year will be a rCLloss to the communityrCY.

    Owner Steve James addressed loyal patrons of the New Romney business,
    saying: rCLItrCOs with great sadness, and the hardest decision IrCOve had to >> make, that Romney Cycles will be closing its doors. ItrCOs been a very
    tough year for a lot of small bike shop businesses with many having to
    close. We were hoping to ride that storm but itrCOs no longer viable to
    keep going".
    ENDQUOTE

    So just as it looked (to some) as though people were going to change
    en-masse from viable and efficient transport modes over to fairy-bikes,
    it didn't happen?

    But whatever made anyone think it WAS going to happen?

    A combination of wishful thinking and aggressive use of pavements (rCyfootwaysrCO).

    Plus, in the last few days:

    rCLFRI, DEC 20, 2024 10:26

    British cycling company Spoon Group, the owner-operator of bespoke bike brands Spoon Customs and WyndyMilla, as well as custom paint business Gun Control, has entered liquidation, following extensive efforts to adapt to what the grouprCOs owner described as the ongoing rCLchallenging market conditionsrCY affecting the bike industry in recent years.rCY

    <https://road.cc/content/news/spoon-and-wyndymilla-owner-enters-liquidation-311823>

    Don't you feel sorry for them?
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  • From Spike@aero.spike@mail.com to uk.rec.cycling on Thu Jan 2 17:57:04 2025
    From Newsgroup: uk.rec.cycling

    JNugent <JNugent73@mail.com> wrote:
    On 31/12/2024 05:09 pm, Spike wrote:
    JNugent <JNugent73@mail.com> wrote:
    <https://tinyurl.com/c6aes3az>

    QUOTE:
    The heartbroken owner of a bike shop on the high street for 30 years
    says he has been forced into shutting the business after a rCLvery toughrCY >>> 2024. Customers say the impending closure of Romney Cycles just weeks
    into the new year will be a rCLloss to the communityrCY.

    Owner Steve James addressed loyal patrons of the New Romney business,
    saying: rCLItrCOs with great sadness, and the hardest decision IrCOve had to
    make, that Romney Cycles will be closing its doors. ItrCOs been a very
    tough year for a lot of small bike shop businesses with many having to
    close. We were hoping to ride that storm but itrCOs no longer viable to
    keep going".
    ENDQUOTE

    So just as it looked (to some) as though people were going to change
    en-masse from viable and efficient transport modes over to fairy-bikes,
    it didn't happen?

    But whatever made anyone think it WAS going to happen?

    A combination of wishful thinking and aggressive use of pavements
    (rCyfootwaysrCO).

    Plus, in the last few days:

    rCLFRI, DEC 20, 2024 10:26

    British cycling company Spoon Group, the owner-operator of bespoke bike
    brands Spoon Customs and WyndyMilla, as well as custom paint business Gun
    Control, has entered liquidation, following extensive efforts to adapt to
    what the grouprCOs owner described as the ongoing rCLchallenging market
    conditionsrCY affecting the bike industry in recent years.rCY

    <https://road.cc/content/news/spoon-and-wyndymilla-owner-enters-liquidation-311823>

    Don't you feel sorry for them?

    errrCaask me one on sport!
    --
    Spike
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  • From JNugent@JNugent73@mail.com to uk.rec.cycling on Thu Jan 2 18:14:01 2025
    From Newsgroup: uk.rec.cycling

    On 02/01/2025 05:57 pm, Spike wrote:
    JNugent <JNugent73@mail.com> wrote:
    On 31/12/2024 05:09 pm, Spike wrote:
    JNugent <JNugent73@mail.com> wrote:
    <https://tinyurl.com/c6aes3az>

    QUOTE:
    The heartbroken owner of a bike shop on the high street for 30 years
    says he has been forced into shutting the business after a rCLvery toughrCY
    2024. Customers say the impending closure of Romney Cycles just weeks
    into the new year will be a rCLloss to the communityrCY.

    Owner Steve James addressed loyal patrons of the New Romney business,
    saying: rCLItrCOs with great sadness, and the hardest decision IrCOve had to
    make, that Romney Cycles will be closing its doors. ItrCOs been a very >>>> tough year for a lot of small bike shop businesses with many having to >>>> close. We were hoping to ride that storm but itrCOs no longer viable to >>>> keep going".
    ENDQUOTE

    So just as it looked (to some) as though people were going to change
    en-masse from viable and efficient transport modes over to fairy-bikes, >>>> it didn't happen?

    But whatever made anyone think it WAS going to happen?

    A combination of wishful thinking and aggressive use of pavements
    (rCyfootwaysrCO).

    Plus, in the last few days:

    rCLFRI, DEC 20, 2024 10:26

    British cycling company Spoon Group, the owner-operator of bespoke bike
    brands Spoon Customs and WyndyMilla, as well as custom paint business Gun >>> Control, has entered liquidation, following extensive efforts to adapt to >>> what the grouprCOs owner described as the ongoing rCLchallenging market
    conditionsrCY affecting the bike industry in recent years.rCY

    <https://road.cc/content/news/spoon-and-wyndymilla-owner-enters-liquidation-311823>

    Don't you feel sorry for them?

    errrCaask me one on sport!

    :-)
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