Bicycles and bicycle parts likely to be in very short supply into 2022 due to large increase in demand and supply disruption caused by pandemic; what bike shops can do to survive | Bicycle Retailer and Industry News

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If you own or work in a bike shop I would urge you to read this article. It might not make for happy reading, but I hope it will help you get through 2021 ... at least a little better than those dealers who don't read it. . . .

To summarize ... hours of comments into a single paragraph: "If you thought supply was tight in the second half of 2020 then you ain't seen nothin' yet! 2021 will be tighter still, possibly for the entire year." . . .

As we all know, our collective bike industry COVID-19 story to date has been that after some initial uncertainty, demand for our products took off in March and stayed at full throttle, at least until about June or July for most dealers. Then a combination of winter and supply constraints started to bite, and things leveled off, but still at a much higher altitude than where we normally fly for each respective month.

This leads to the first problem for 2021. Virtually all of the reserve stock that wholesalers usually hold so that retailers can order on demand, has been sold. During my road trips I've walked down empty aisles of warehouses that might normally hold 10,000 bikes with barely a few hundred. One company reported 107 bikes in stock compared to a usual holding of 18,000 bikes. Other smaller warehouses were completely empty with the next two or three shipments already fully pre-sold.

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Bicycles and bicycle parts likely to be in very short supply into 2022 due to large increase in demand and supply disruption caused by pandemic; what bike shops can do to survive | Bicycle Retailer and Industry News

MoBikeFed comment: This is a detailed report and analysis of the current bicycle and parts supply situation in Australia, by a report who covers the bicycle industry there.

We have published a longer article and comments about how this may apply to Missouri, here:

https://mobikefed.org/2021/01/bicycles-and-bicycle-parts-likely-be-very-...