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Bosch Brings ABS to E-Bikes: Why Braking Just Got Intelligent

Bosch Brings ABS to E-Bikes: Why Braking Just Got Intelligent

ABS on a bicycle is not a gimmick. Powered from the main battery and built on decades of motorcycle experience, Bosch's system moves a core safety function from rider reflex to engineered reliability.

The Great Inventory Correction: Lessons from the Post-Boom Hangover

The Great Inventory Correction: Lessons from the Post-Boom Hangover

The pandemic boom did not break the bicycle industry. The inventory it left behind almost did — and the lessons it forced are now load-bearing for how the trade operates.

Italy's Stagnant Bike Market and the E-Bike That Refuses to Stall

Italy's Stagnant Bike Market and the E-Bike That Refuses to Stall

Italy sells fewer bicycles overall but more e-bikes every year. The headline unit decline hides a generational shift in who rides — and what they will pay for.

Cambodia's Billion-Dollar Bicycle Exports and the Geography of Diversification

Cambodia's Billion-Dollar Bicycle Exports and the Geography of Diversification

Cambodia's bicycle exports swung from $966 million in 2022 to under $430 million in 2024, then rebounded. The boom-bust arc is a map of how trade policy, not efficiency, now decides where bikes are built.

Survival of the Fittest: Defining the 2025 Bicycle Industry

Survival of the Fittest: Defining the 2025 Bicycle Industry

2025 is not a year of winners and losers by size. It separates disciplined operators from everyone else — and the selection pressure is reshaping who survives.

YT Industries and the Restructuring: What It Reveals About DTC's Limits

YT Industries and the Restructuring: What It Reveals About DTC's Limits

A direct-to-consumer pioneer entering self-administered restructuring is not a verdict on DTC. It is a verdict on DTC without the discipline to survive a downturn.

Growth Amid Adjustment: The State of Europe's Bicycle and E-Bike Market

Growth Amid Adjustment: The State of Europe's Bicycle and E-Bike Market

Europe's market is neither booming nor busting. It is quietly reorganising around a different kind of customer — and aggregate figures hide a decisive compositional shift.