“Customers used to be able to walk in and order a bike on a Monday and pick it up on Friday. Now the next available shipment is in five months,” Mr Shahar said. cycling cyclists COVID19 COVID19Vic COVID19NSW
Booming bike sales are leading to year-long delays for high-end cyclists as a peloton of new pandemic-inspired riders and global disruption stretches supply chains.
Bike Industry Australia’s general manager Peter Bourke said he recently called three bike stores to ask about fuel prices. “Every single person coming into the shop mentions petrol,” he said. Customers used to be able to walk in and order a bike on a Monday and pick it up on Friday. Now the next available shipment is in five months.That won’t appease avid cyclists waiting for a favourite model.“There is still a huge amount of bikes on back order. There is still demand for bikes and there is a long lag in getting bikes into the country,” he said.
Before the pandemic it cost around $15 to ship each bike, now sea freight has blown out to $60. For a child’s bike that is nearly a third of the cost, he said. Graeme Moffett, from Pon.Bike Australia which imports Cannondale, Cervélo, FOCUS, and German-made Kalkhoff e-bikes, said Australia was being impacted by a global shortage of bikes and spare parts. “If it’s a road or gravel bike, we just can’t get enough,” he said.
Jake Southall, who owns eight Sydney Electric Bikes stores, said e-bike sales aren’t necessarily growing at the expense of normal bikes. “A lot of people who don’t ride normal bikes are getting e-bikes. They just wouldn’t ride a normal bike,” he said.
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