Have Rose stopped doing e-bikes? I had a mail from them this morning telling of the post free offers and looked for the bikes. All gone. So if e-bikes sales are up, why have Rose discontinued them?
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I don't know about the Rose brand, but effectively e-bike sales are well down.
The total number sold each year has been gradually increasing, but not by a large degree. But the number of brands and suppliers has greatly increased over the same years meaning reductions for many of those brands. No-one is getting rich selling them and some are still putting more into the business than what they are getting out. In that environment some will go broke.
No, mostly in the past the many failures have started from the smallest and risen into larger regions. That said, even the very long established Powabyke went broke and had to be rescued, so anything is possible.
Here you are Croxden. Below is a link to the German parent company's e-bike site. At the top right of that page you'll see the small word "contact". Click that and on the left hand side of the page that opens you'll see a link "English speaking contact. Click that and top of the page is the UK company contact Fin with his photo, email address and phone number:
E-bikes - Rose Versand bike shop MTB mountain bike road bike trekking bike triathlon bike mail order company, e-bikes
This UK website address works ok, www.rosebikes.co.uk , but they appear to have stopped supplying e-bikes, sticking to normal bikes only. This may support what I said about reducing sales share.
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E-bikes - Rose Versand bike shop MTB mountain bike road bike trekking bike triathlon bike mail order company, e-bikes
This UK website address works ok, www.rosebikes.co.uk , but they appear to have stopped supplying e-bikes, sticking to normal bikes only. This may support what I said about reducing sales share.
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I hope this is not the case, but I think with people uncertain about jobs and tightening their belts some are unwilling to splash out on an ebike. This coupled with increased popularity of ordinary cycling might make some manufacturers consider pulling out. Having said that I have noticed a few more ebikes in the Torbay area.
KTM have increased their range of e-bikes, starting page 170 ISSUU - KTM Partnerbook 2014 by Groupe Dejour
Thanks flecc, it was the Xtra 500 that took my interest but they never restocked in the frame size I wanted hence my choice of the MX. I had toyed with having both just to spoil myself. Something else will pop up.