Market drivers, legacy brands & industry upstarts… in the latest Cycling Industry News magazine
Disruptive products, market drivers and insights from legacy brands and up-and-coming industry upstarts… it’s all in the latest Cycling Industry News magazine, which is now live online and in the post to subscribers.
Cycling Industry News Magazine Issue 08 2026 features:
- Market Data: What product categories are making dealer tills ring and driving sales?
- Gobao: The Chinese manufacturer is making waves with the “X-System”, aimed at the segment’s establishment…
- Is the entry level riding out the downturn? Reid Bikes explains how it has been building scale while barely registering on the wider industry’s radar
- Sox Footwear discusses 5 year guarantees and eye-catching designs
- Cycle tourism contributes 10% of Germany’s tourism market, so why can’t the UK achieve similar numbers?
- Gathering Velocity: Advocates, decision-makers and the industry will convene in Japan for Velocity for the first time, next year
- Succession: Dr David Hon has headed up the internationally successful Dahon brand for an impressive 44 years and shows no sign of slowing…
- PLUS: Cycling Industry News Live 2026 is just around the corner. We’ve plenty on the show, which you can pre-register for online.
- And more
It’s all in the latest Cycling Industry News magazine.
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From the Editor…
Another warm one
2025’s warm and dry Q2 and Q3 were a welcome respite after an incredibly tough few years for the trade. Those tough years weren’t really due to weather conditions, of course, but last year’s dry weather clearly had a huge positive impact and made a palpable difference to cashflow for a lot of players.
In 2026, here we are again. We’re at what appears to be the close of an incredible spell of warm and dry weather. At time of writing, the Met Office is still compiling its figures, but it seems a formality and sure to conclude that the UK saw its warmest summer on record. Good news for the bike trade then? (Halfords has recently upgraded its forecast for the year). In many ways yes, but with all the worrying implications about man-made climate change, inflation through scarcity and the effect on the local environment. But you didn’t come here for me to cheer you up. That aside – the trade should have had a half-decent 2026, so long as those pesky economic challenges didn’t get in the way.
CIN Live 2026 is timed handily for the entire trade to come together and assess the state of the industry. What do we make of 2026 so far? All these questions and more will be mulled over at NAEC Stoneleigh, from Sunday 20th – Monday 21st September. See you there.
