Ray is a long-time friend of Bicycle Retailer and writes occasional columnsm blogs and articles for the website and magazine.
Ray's background includes stints as a bike retailer, executive director of the Bicycle Industry Organization, editor of a trade magazine, founder of Growth Cycle and now executive director of the Bicycle Product Suppliers Association.
Selling used bikes as a way to serve lower-priced demand isn't the best option for every shop.
I am troubled by three recent negative experiences with IBDs. One each of the warranty, special-order and rental varieties.
There were many questions awaiting the industry as we all arrived at Interbike last week. Would the new hall and hotels be an improvement? Would Consumer Day resemble a plague of locusts? Would any of this matter if we get an early Spring in 2014?
I take my gal pals bike shopping. They like it better than I do.
One of the many lessons I learned in 1975 from my retail mentor Peter Davis from Champaign Cycle: “Never run out of inner tubes!” Of course, he could just buy more tubes, and I had to beg Tom French for mine. But that’s another story.
The Age-Old Debate broke out on Facebook a while back: Do mass market bikes discourage their owners from becoming cyclists?
My 19-year-old son Will crashed on his bike yesterday afternoon. Hit his head hard. He was wearing his Lazer helmet. He had a bit of a headache this morning.
It's not often that I quote the Bible. Or fall off my bike.
I'm old and cautious. My bones heal more slowly than they used to. Plus, I would surely perish if I couldn't ride my bike and play golf. So it had been decades since I've had a major bike mishap.
In the spirit of “what would Leslie want us to be doing right now.”
MONTGOMERYVILLE, PA (BRAIN)—The Bicycle Products Suppliers Association and Leisure Trends Group have formed an alliance to track retail sales through a representative group of more than 200 U.S. retailers.
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