e-bikes now 12% of value of UK bike imports

Some interesting data passed on from GB Bicycle Association, including revelation e-bikes now 12% of import values. Pedal power trend may be lowest this century though: https://cyclingindustry.news/uk-bicycle-imports-lowest-since-the-turn-of-the-century-e-bikes-hit-12-of-markets-imports/

Edited August 25, 20178 yr by mark sutton

I don't understand whether there's some sort of bias there, but why do they talk about electric bikes separately? It's pretty obvious that non-electric bikes will go down if the electric ones go up. I thought the BA included responsibility for electric bikes now, so why do they talk about them as if they're something different. They should start with analysing the overall trends including electric bikes, then comment on which types of bikes have changed in proportion to previous years.

Cycling is falling dramatically overall though, the annual overall bike imports declining from 4 millions in 2010 to just 2.5millions recently, and still falling.

 

E-bikes are nowhere near that 1.5 millions a year difference, ranging in fact from 25,000 to perhaps near 50,000 per annum during that period.

 

So the 1.5 millions reduction in ordinary bike buying is close to the truth, and it doesn't surprise me.

 

I've raised before the long term ill effects of parents not allowing children to ride bikes, the obsessive protection of kids since around the late 1980s and fear of traffic responsible.

 

Those who have never learnt to ride a bike when young are rarely likely to try later, and they form a very high proportion of those up to 40 years old. They are happy driving their cars, in which they mostly regard cyclists as a nuisance, so are hardly inclined to join their ranks very often.

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Cycling is falling dramatically overall though, the annual overall bike imports declining from 4 millions in 2010 to just 2.5millions recently, and still falling.

 

E-bikes are nowhere near that 1.5 millions a year difference, ranging in fact from 25,000 to perhaps near 50,000 per annum during that period.

 

So the 1.5 millions reduction in ordinary bike buying is close to the truth, and it doesn't surprise me.

 

I've raised before the long term ill effects of parents not allowing children to ride bikes, the obsessive protection of kids since around the late 1980s and fear of traffic responsible.

 

Those who have never learnt to ride a bike when young are rarely likely to try later, and they form a very high proportion of those up to 40 years old. They are happy driving their cars, in which they mostly regard cyclists as a nuisance, so are hardly inclined to join their ranks very often.

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That is the truth of it Flecc, what is needed, and I have said it before in other posts, is a step change in attitudes to cycle use.

This can only come about from sociable society and political perseverence , we need a social goverment, we need Corbyn!

That is the truth of it Flecc, what is needed, and I have said it before in other posts, is a step change in attitudes to cycle use.

This can only come about from sociable society and political perseverence , we need a social goverment, we need Corbyn!

 

You were doing so well - until those last three words.

You were doing so well - until those last three words.

 

Should it have been "Corbyn needs us"?

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Should it have been "Corbyn needs us"?

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Yup! Yer right ,when's all said, Comrade Corbyn is a politico, but he rides and is a honourable member of parliament, i.e shows genuine conviction of his beliefs.

Now ,Boris rides as well, but would you trust his actions?

 

Enough prosetelising from me.