Is the inflated Bike market finally crashing?

[Bike N Gear]

Colorado Cyclist and Planet Cyclery promote 'closing sale'

BROOMFIELD, Colo. (BRAIN) — The homepage of e-commerce sites Colorado Cyclist and Planet Cyclery (which merged in late 2021) each began promoting a "Closing Sale" on their homepages this week.

www.bicycleretailer.com

This is also telling

I read that Stages might have have laid off all employees. Also just noticed that Action is closing up too.

 

[Steve Vai]

Colorado Cyclist and Planet Cyclery promote 'closing sale'

BROOMFIELD, Colo. (BRAIN) — The homepage of e-commerce sites Colorado Cyclist and Planet Cyclery (which merged in late 2021) each began promoting a "Closing Sale" on their homepages this week.

www.bicycleretailer.com

This is also telling

Might be a good time to snag that Look Track Bike I’ve had my eye on. Or is that R&A?

 

[goldsbar]

Took a quick look at the sale. The amount of stuff they have with abandoned standards is also very telling for the industry as a whole. It's really hard just to buy a rear wheel these days...rim diameter, hub size, disc interface, cassette interface, rim width (why are there still road bike rim widths for MTBs?), weight/strength category, let alone brand preferences.

 

[gmb3]

I always found Colorado Cyclist to be pretentious, overpriced roadie crap anyway

 

[Ian F]

I remember getting the Colorado Cyclist catalogs way back when... Prices always seemed higher than average (my LBS Guys' had no problem matching or beating their prices), but it was fun day-dreaming tool when I couldn't afford to buy anything.

 

[qclabrat]

I always found Colorado Cyclist to be pretentious, overpriced roadie crap anyway

I don't think I've bought anything from them since the 80s. Miss paging through catalogs and mags to sketching out a dream bike on a wide rule composition notebook