Search results

sorry I was called away to attend to customers. I did agree with your #post-419000 on the fact that I misread the article. However, the number of Halfords shops is 460 UK wide. In Southend, there is one Halfords and 17 other bike shops within 5 miles. I'll find you the correct number UK wide...

I am reading through the latest report at the moment, the number of people employed in bike shops is 23,000. You can guess that the number of bike shops is much more than 2,500.

The main reason for the overall rate of consolidation (about 6% a year) is the growth of online purchases.

In a recent article (July last year) in the respected bike-eu.com: http://www.bike-eu.com/home/nieuws/2017/6/halfords-notes-big-drop-in-number-of-uk-bike-retailers-10130270 In its report on the company’s financial year (that ended March 31, 2017) Halfords Group plc notes “Our research has...

There are around 18,000 bike shops in the UK, some will close this year, next year and in the following years. What's new? It is not an unstable situation. If anything, I predict more bike shops are going to add e-bikes to their range. You on the other hand, may have a target date when you want...

sorry I don't get you. what is unprofessional and not fair? rumour mongering or spelling it out that such action shouldn't take place here?

If someone says 'I know a bike shop in my town who is thinking of discontinuing X because of y, z' - you will see very clearly the detrimental effect of such a comment if X were Wisper. By putting all your competitors on one side and you are in the other, you are implying that buying from you...

yes they are, David. Otherwise, you can refer to these companies and brands by their proper names.

in a perverse way, having cake and eating it may turn out to be the right policy to get the right result for brexit (a soft brexit). If you watch the polls, reality (as it goes against having cake and eating it) does the work for the remainers' camp, slowly reversing the majority toward remain...

shoulder to shoulder with the tories. both leaderships entertain the idea that we can have cake and eating it. the reasonable elements of both parties are clearly sidelined.

this is typical result when there are small defects in the welding inside the bottom bracket shell. I woud put a bit of shoe polish or black grease on the motor's BB, push it through until it stops, then use a torch to find out where too much metal is left inside the bike's bb shell. Use a...

there lies the danger of over supply. E-bikes are perishable goods, unlike normal bikes.

the e-bike market is going through an explosive growth phase in the last 2-3 years, perhaps a little more for Chinese e-bikes than EU made/assembled e-bikes. The difference is not much but enough to give ammunition to the EBMA. My Chinese suppliers told me that they are seeing 22% increase in...

well, many brexiters believe that they were lied to by the conservative in 1975, that the EU was primarily a commercial grouping.

for more grunt at the same voltage and current, you either choose a crank drive motor or a geared motor with higher reduction ratio or one that has larger magnets (thus larger and heavier) or one that is wired for lower noload speed. In my experience, the probability of failure increases with...

if you go into a commercial partnership, then your voting share is usually proportional to your share of capital. There are of course other classes of shares that confer some additional voting rights but 'democracy by shareholding' is by far the easiest way to preserve long term associations.

about that article, "At its core is the fallacy of 'Europe' as something distinct from the UK; an extrinsic force over there, doing wicked things over here. In truth, Europe was part-British, as it was part-French and part-German." there lies the rub. Brexiters are generally not happy with the...

one could have said: there are more entrants to the e-bike business than leavers. the fact remains that there are more e-bike sold and more brands if you compare 2017 against 2016, 2016 against 2015.

David, if you find my remark offensive, put yourself in the place of other Chinese bikes importers. Rumours like those don't do much good to the rest of us.

I wanted to show that countries like Vietnam relying on coffee export (25% of coffee drunk in the EU comes from Vietnam) still pay duty. Out of the EBA list, of course Ethiopia exports coffee but they sell less than 2% of EU consumption.