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James Shrubsall

The bike industry survived to 2025 – what happens now?

Rows of bikes in a bicycle shop.

'Survive till 25' is a mantra that has been tossed around in the bicycle retail industry a lot over the past 12 months – a three-word pep talk urging stoicism and suggesting better times were on the way.

Well, it's 2025 and if you're lucky you survived – what now? Nobody was expecting to push through the door marked 'exit' on December 31, 2024 and step into a high-margin, high-demand paradise that would solve everyone's woes in an instant.

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