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matt_outandabout
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Who can forget the wonderful range of Emmelle MTBs?My first ever new bike was a pink & grey smoke swirls Emmelle with fandangled new underbar shifters….
Edit: these STI’s…
Mine was an Emmelle Cougar about 87 it ended up getting a crack in the head tube.
Sadly, it looks like the distributor Moore Large are the latest to add to the list. Probably not a household name to the consumer but well known in the industry and have been around a while.
Cadence active limited registered Feb 9th 2023 smells like Cullen skink no ?
A fishy kinda soup.....
Cadence active limited registered Feb 9th 2023 smells like Cullen skink no ?
Yes. Four days before we all lost our jobs. It did not go unnoticed.
ProBikeKit the latest to add to the list.
I’m glad I’ve read that. I was just in the process of buying some kit off them but for some reason my card kept getting declined.
Sounds lucky on my part.
Sucks for the people working at THG, but will anyone miss PBK?
CRC/Wiggle are equally corporate machines that happen to sell bike bits, but at least you can use them as a one stop shop, plus in-house brands etc. PBK were just the kind of shop that occasionally came up cheapest on google. And I never understood why they didn't let you buy other THD brands on the same order and combine postage. I might actually have used them frequently if I'd be able to buy protein etc at the same time.
will anyone miss PBK? PBK were just the kind of shop that occasionally came up cheapest on google.
True, but that counts for most online retailers these days. I haven't used them loads but still probably once or twice a year over the last (checks) 13 years.
Morvelo are also a part of THG - considering the recent woes of other smaller cycle clothes brands hopefully they won't be next for the chop.
Sucks for the people working at THG, but will anyone miss PBK?
I certainly will.
For the things I’ve bought off them, including a couple of AXS Reverbs, they’ve been a considerable amount cheaper than other places and the service has been faultless.
probikekit is still trading, I assume running down stock based on the link above? I ordered from them earlier in the week and it has been shipped.
I remember when my boss started selling emmelles, "if anyone asks, they’re french"
To Mrauer.... sure you appreciate the irony that if everyone does what you do you won't be a bike mechnanic for much longer...
There was always going to be a post covid correction. Nobody sensible should infer continued growth based on pandemic buying habits
Cost of living crisis has exacerbated a reduction in spend that was always going to happen.
Don't believe me? look on eBay.
Article in the Grauniad on the subject:
So what went wrong?
“We could see it before anyone else,” said Martin Shepherd at Reynolds Technology in Birmingham, which for the past 125 years has made steel tubes used to create bicycle frames.
“During the pandemic, you couldn’t ship bikes fast enough,” he said. “Everybody’s lead time for orders [mostly to Taiwanese factories] started to go up nine months in advance, 12 months in advance.
“Now we’ve come out of the other side of it, there’s just vast amounts of inventory because all those people who were having to order 500 bikes 18 months in advance were suddenly swamped with stock.”