Key trade show COREbike 2024 is looming fast, set to bring a large portion of the cycle trade together over 18-20 February 2024, once again at familiar haunt Whittlebury Hall in Northants.

It’s the first COREbike since the cycling market’s most tumultuous year and will likely be a first opportunity for many to get face-to-face with fellow retailers and suppliers to compare notes and experiences. Given some players sadly dropped out of the market in 2023, there may well be a few retailers seeking new suppliers and distributors to plug gaps hitherto supplied by businesses that have now closed.

Dealers registering for the show will secure their free lunch, with parking and WiFi included.

COREbike 2024 will also be chance to see the fruits of freshly inked distribution deals signed by exhibitors, a recent selection of which include:

• Extra UK & Cyclex signing MET and Bluegrass helmets
• Upgrade and Bob Elliot become ABUS UK distributors
• A deepening of the ZyroFisher and Mahle partnership including aftersales support
• Burley signs with Chicken Cyclekit
• Ison distributing Ass Savers &
• Plus a bunch more distribution deals, no doubt including some of these

The latest issue of our own Cycling Industry News magazine will be available for the trade to pick up at Whittlebury Hall during the show too.

There’s more on Core here.