{"id":5595,"date":"2025-10-29T13:13:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T11:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikenomist.com\/?p=5595"},"modified":"2025-10-29T13:13:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T11:13:24","slug":"more-cyclists-fewer-bike-shops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikenomist.com\/en\/blog\/more-cyclists-fewer-bike-shops\/","title":{"rendered":"More cyclists, fewer bike shops"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This morning I passed by a vintage bike shop in my neighborhood and couldn\u2019t believe my eyes: they no longer sell bikes, only offer repairs and urban bike rentals for tourists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It perfectly illustrates the paradox the bike world is experiencing right now: bike sales are stagnant, more and more shops are closing, yet there are more cyclists on the streets and cycle tourism is growing at double-digit rates year after year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cChaos\u201d is the mildest way to put it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet there is a light at the end of the tunnel, and Andrea Panzeri, CEO of RMS, showed it during the latest episode of the podcast <em>From Bike to Business<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>RMS is a little-known name to the general public because it works exclusively with bike shops, knowing them inside out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want to understand this sector better and avoid making major mistakes, don\u2019t miss this episode:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ancora crisi e i negozi di bici sono l&#039;anello debole della catena\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gcGSgK9W96k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I passed by a vintage bike shop in my neighborhood and couldn\u2019t believe my eyes: they no longer sell bikes, only offer repairs and urban bike rentals for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[192],"class_list":{"0":"post-5595","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blog-en","8":"tag-from-bike-to-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>More cyclists, fewer bike shops - Bikenomist<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The bike market is struggling, but cycle tourism is booming. 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