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[Full article at the link below]
<https://road.cc/content/news/major-independent-bike-shop-enters-liquidation-316181>
"Cycle industry in a major recession": Independent bike shop enters liquidation and claims summer heatwave saw sales plummet to off-season
winter levels
Sales doubled during pandemic bike boom but yet another cycling business closes for good as demand eased and costs rose in recent years
by DAN ALEXANDER. TUE, SEP 30, 2025 16:46
An independent bike shop which traded in Oxford since the late 1990s has
shut its doors with the business entering liquidation, the directors explaining it has struggled to fight off rising costs since the pandemic
and the cycle industry has been "in a major recession".
Beeline Bicycles is now closed, the bike shop having traded on Cowley Road
in Oxford for around 30 years. The business's directors explained the
factors behind it being placed into voluntary liquidation recently and pointed to falling turnover since the Covid bike boom which, when combined with rising costs, culminated in a significant loss in the year to July
2024.
While trading had been positive in spring earlier this year, with sales of -u116,000 and -u129,000 in the months of April and May respectively, the directors blamed the June heatwave for sales plummeting by -u40,000 and leaving the figure at a level "we would expect for the off-season in
winter".
On 04/10/2025 00:46, Spike wrote:
[Full article at the link below]
<https://road.cc/content/news/major-independent-bike-shop-enters-liquidation-316181>
"Cycle industry in a major recession": Independent bike shop enters
liquidation and claims summer heatwave saw sales plummet to off-season
winter levels
Sales doubled during pandemic bike boom but yet another cycling business
closes for good as demand eased and costs rose in recent years
by DAN ALEXANDER. TUE, SEP 30, 2025 16:46
An independent bike shop which traded in Oxford since the late 1990s has
shut its doors with the business entering liquidation, the directors
explaining it has struggled to fight off rising costs since the pandemic
and the cycle industry has been "in a major recession".
Beeline Bicycles is now closed, the bike shop having traded on Cowley Road >> in Oxford for around 30 years. The business's directors explained the
factors behind it being placed into voluntary liquidation recently and
pointed to falling turnover since the Covid bike boom which, when combined >> with rising costs, culminated in a significant loss in the year to July
2024.
While trading had been positive in spring earlier this year, with sales of >> -u116,000 and -u129,000 in the months of April and May respectively, the
directors blamed the June heatwave for sales plummeting by -u40,000 and
leaving the figure at a level "we would expect for the off-season in
winter".
I don't suppose I help much.
I buy a cheap but solid non-electric bike and do most of my own
maintenance and repairs. My present one is about 15 years old.
[Full article at the link below]
<https://road.cc/content/news/major-independent-bike-shop-enters-liquidation-316181>
"Cycle industry in a major recession": Independent bike shop enters liquidation and claims summer heatwave saw sales plummet to off-season
winter levels
Sales doubled during pandemic bike boom but yet another cycling business closes for good as demand eased and costs rose in recent years
by DAN ALEXANDER. TUE, SEP 30, 2025 16:46
An independent bike shop which traded in Oxford since the late 1990s has
shut its doors with the business entering liquidation, the directors explaining it has struggled to fight off rising costs since the pandemic
and the cycle industry has been "in a major recession".
Beeline Bicycles is now closed, the bike shop having traded on Cowley Road
in Oxford for around 30 years. The business's directors explained the
factors behind it being placed into voluntary liquidation recently and pointed to falling turnover since the Covid bike boom which, when combined with rising costs, culminated in a significant loss in the year to July
2024.
While trading had been positive in spring earlier this year, with sales of -u116,000 and -u129,000 in the months of April and May respectively, the directors blamed the June heatwave for sales plummeting by -u40,000 and leaving the figure at a level "we would expect for the off-season in
winter".
Peter Keller <muzhmuzh@centrum.sk> wrote:
On 04/10/2025 00:46, Spike wrote:
[Full article at the link below]
<https://road.cc/content/news/major-independent-bike-shop-enters-liquidation-316181>
"Cycle industry in a major recession": Independent bike shop enters
liquidation and claims summer heatwave saw sales plummet to off-season
winter levels
Sales doubled during pandemic bike boom but yet another cycling business >>> closes for good as demand eased and costs rose in recent years
by DAN ALEXANDER. TUE, SEP 30, 2025 16:46
An independent bike shop which traded in Oxford since the late 1990s has >>> shut its doors with the business entering liquidation, the directors
explaining it has struggled to fight off rising costs since the pandemic >>> and the cycle industry has been "in a major recession".
Beeline Bicycles is now closed, the bike shop having traded on Cowley Road >>> in Oxford for around 30 years. The business's directors explained the
factors behind it being placed into voluntary liquidation recently and
pointed to falling turnover since the Covid bike boom which, when combined >>> with rising costs, culminated in a significant loss in the year to July
2024.
While trading had been positive in spring earlier this year, with sales of >>> -u116,000 and -u129,000 in the months of April and May respectively, the >>> directors blamed the June heatwave for sales plummeting by -u40,000 and
leaving the figure at a level "we would expect for the off-season in
winter".
I don't suppose I help much.
I buy a cheap but solid non-electric bike and do most of my own
maintenance and repairs. My present one is about 15 years old.
It was always thus, thererCOs nothing wrong with a straightforward approach and DIY servicing.
I think that what is being complained about is the disappearance of the dilettante cyclist that emerged during the Covid lockdown, and the cycle industry mistakenly thought that cycling had reached new levels and the
good times were rolling. But people voted with convenience in mind and have reverted to their previous patterns. There have been no more claims of rCLSnake Pass belongs to us!rCY from cyclingrCOs lunatic fringe.