New Cycling Industry News Magazine lands: Insights from China’s bike hubs + much more

The new issue of Cycling Industry News is now online and in the post to subscribers, with (more!) bike factory visits, reports from the rapidly growing China Cycle show, and more.

Issue 06 2026 includes:

• China Cycle 2026: Curiosities, suits of armour, tech innovation and dancing robots
• Simple sales tips: Tackling warranty situations differently could help dealers with future sales…
• We discover there’s more to Bafang than rear hub motors during our Suzhou factory tour
• Market Data: are dealers increasingly focusing on enthusiasts rather than those new to cycling?
• Powering up: Power meter specialist INPEAK on its steep trajectory
• Oh Lord: We unpick some common cycle myths circulating the House of Lords
• Why is GRVL branching out into a more inclusive offering?
• Competition ready: Continental’s extended Terra range
• And more!

It’s all in the latest issue of Cycling Industry News, online now. Want to subscribe to the print edition? You can do that on our subscription page, where you can also sign up to our email newsletters.

Editor’s comment:

PEAK SALES, ADMINISTRATIONS & STRATEGY

Peak sales season and the road racing calendar are both now well underway (that’s a reference to our handy CIN Tour de France wallchart included free with this issue). Meanwhile, the powers that be have released the third CWIS (Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy).

If CWIS is news to you, then here’s a quick refresher: since 2015, thanks to the Infrastructure Act, the Secretary of State for Transport must update Parliament on what progress has been made in the cycling to walking investment strategy for England (rather than largely ignoring cycling). So, here’s an example of something that has got better since 2015.

The latest CWIS talks about empowering local authorities, long-term strategic plans and creating safe networks around schools. The aim is, by 2035, for 55% of all short ‘stages’ in towns and cities to be walked or cycled, with £4.5 billion of investment promised. The announcement also revealed that cycling numbers are shifting in the right direction, up 15% since 2013. It might be tough for the industry to swallow that statistic, coming as the market continues to be tricky and probably doesn’t feel as good as it did a decade ago.

On that topic, there’s been another administration of a significant UK distributor – Saddleback. Our thoughts are with the employees of said business and also with those companies who have been grappling with the prospect of related unpaid debts. Combined with Porsche’s recent withdrawal from the eBike market, and Frasers Group’s acquisition of Frog Bikes, there is clearly still upheaval in the market – perhaps a good enough definition of the ‘new normal’ as anything.

You could argue that the decade’s rise in cycling has been in part due to the advent of bike share schemes, which have become more embedded in the UK (and not just London) over the last decade. Either way, here’s to greater cycling numbers, may they translate to a more robust and sustainable cycling industry… only with a little less upheaval, thank you very much.