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23 Apr 2024

This May, join the movement to create safer, more bike-friendly streets with the Bike Month Challenge and #MakeEveryRideCount!

23 Apr 2024

The number of reported e-bike thefts doubled in the space of a year in the UK, with a 103% increase in 2023 compared to 2022, according to a study by Evolve E-bikes. While the...

22 Apr 2024

Small shops have been more "agile" at fighting COVID sale slumps than chain stores, according to a new report.

22 Apr 2024

For the first time in its campaign to help the city address escalating lithium-ion battery fires, the Fire Department of New York filed criminal charges against a Brooklyn e-bike shop owner for...

22 Apr 2024

The managing director of Brompton has backed a campaign to introduce stricter e-bike battery regulations in the UK, amid "too many examples of e-bikes, e-scooters and light electric...

15 Apr 2024

The Rediscovery Centre, the National Centre for the Circular Economy in Ireland, today announced its partnership with Cytech, the internationally recognised training and accreditation scheme for...

12 Apr 2024

Just two weeks remain for the UK cycle industry to have its say on the current Government consultation to double the permissible power of e-bikes, and to remove the need for pedalling.

10 Apr 2024

Award-winning cycling business Spokes Bikes has added a new shop in Greenock to existing shop in Bridge of Weir.

9 Apr 2024

Communities across England are to be given access to £101 million of government funding for high-quality walking and cycling routes, improving the quality of local public engagement for...

9 Apr 2024

The founders of a Wirral bike recycling scheme have opened a hub across the River Mersey as part of a campaign to encourage more people into cycling.

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E-bikes are becoming the leading player

Posted on in Business News , Cycles News

EbikeThe e-bike has become the star player in the Netherlands.

With millions invested in improving bike paths, parking and the general cycle infrastructure, Amsterdam aims to reach the target of emission-free vehicles by 2030.

What does this mean for the cycle market in the Netherlands?

The cycle market is growing and becoming more competitive by the minute with more than one million bicycles sold for the first time in four years in 2018. The e-bike has become the biggest sector of the cycling trade with four in ten new bikes sold being electrically powered in 2018. The e-bike has also contributed to a rise in the average purchase of a new bicycle, but the cycles industry in the Netherlands still feels that there is imminent growth and room for e-bikes to develop further.

What does this mean for the global cycles market?

E-bikes were a product for elderly people just two or three years ago, but there is a space in the student and commuter market to see e-bike growth furthering and taking on another demographic.

Although there is this space within the student and commuter market for e-bikes to develop, the general retail market is still reluctant towards e-bikes. The e-bike isn't taking away from the traditional cycles industry it is just opening new doors within the retail space and the cycling industry.

Learn more about the e-bike market and how the e-bike can benefit your business here.

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