The latest episode of the CI.N podcast welcomes Mark Nicholson, CEO of Vivacity Labs, the company using Artificial Intelligence to improve traffic insights to make cities smarter, safer and more sustainable.

Established in 2016, Vivacity Labs’ uses AI technology to gather detailed and anonymous data 24/7 on transport modes, traffic flow and travel patterns in real-time, supporting strategic decisions to help optimise the transport network and improve urban infrastructure. Vivacity Labs' sensors have been deployed in over 40 towns and cities across the UK, including Manchester, Cambridge and Sunderland.

During the episode, Mark discusses Vivacity Labs' plans for the future, interesting data gathered, and the importance of working with cities and local authorities to gather better data about what's happening on the road networks and then to optimise those road networks using that data.

Episode 22- Vivacity Labs with Mark Nicholson

Legendary frame designer and builder Mike Burrows puts the bike world to rights, detailing a long career solving problems for the bike industry. Burrows is best known as the designer behind the iconic 1992 Olympic Gold Lotus track bike, as ridden by Chris Boardman.

Mike Burrows, legendary frame designer and builder

Director of Retail experience at Fox Racing Donny Perry is this week's guest on the CyclingIndustry.News podcast. Donny is the author of 'best practice' book Leading Out Retail, a bible for the bike shop looking to fine tune their business.

Donny Perry discusses modern bike retail

Jos Sluijsmans, a veteran of the cargo bike business and founder of an international trade show for the market is our guest this week on the CyclingIndustry.News Podcast. Here he speaks on the evolution of the marketplace over time and how mass adoption is now coming fast.

Jos Sluijsmans talks the next stage for the cargo bike market

Tern Bicycles Founder Joshua Hon discusses the current supply chain bottlenecks in the bicycle industry and how the Just in Time method preferred in the trade is hitting walls. This and more from a figurehead of the mobility business.

Joshua Hon discusses bike industry supply chains

Cycling and Walking Commissioner for the West Midlands Adam Tranter is one to have successfully bridged the gap between bike industry and bike advocacy and he invites you to join him on a journey to bring active travel to the forefront of people's minds.

Adam Tranter talks political will and industry advocacy

CyclingIndustry.News monthly podcast gathers another unique bike industry perspective, this time calling on Bastian Dietz to discuss the meeting of the auto and bike industry, as well as selling specialist products in the bicycle industry. What are the pros and cons of a crossover in mobility solutions from both the car and bike industry?

Bastian Dietz on the blurring of industries - cars and bikes

Having been in and around each level of the bike industry supply chain for over 60 years, Jay Townley has seen it all. Then Covid-19 came and gave the supply chain an unprecedented headache. Where does the bike industry go from here and what next for bikes for transport?

Jay Townley on supply chain and mobility evolution

Shift Active Media's Business and Marketing Director Rachael Burnside talks utilising data in your business's marketing, why 20 million viewers for the Tour de France Femmes means a coming of age for those brands backing women's cycling and much more...

Rachael Burnside

A recap of a rollercoaster year with two industry leaders, plus what their expectations are for 2023. Our two guests are Dominic Langan, the CEO of Madison and Adrian Mawdsley, the Head of IBD Sales at Raleigh UK.

CyclingIndustry.News 2022 in recap

What does the data say 2023 has in store for the cycle market? Regular CyclingIndustry.News host Sean Lalley chats with Shift Active Media's Chief Strategy Officer Doug Baker about some of the positives - and challenges - the cycling industry faces for the year, using data compiled by both Shift Active Media and CyclingIndustry.News.

Shift’s Chief Strategy Officer Doug Baker on 2023 cycle market data

The latest CyclingIndustry.News Podcast delves deep into how England’s oldest bike manufacturer has been serving the business-to-business market since it began in the 1920s. CI.N Podcast Host Sean Lally interviews Pashley Managing Director Adrian Williams to explore how B2B and utility bikes has been core to its success and even to its survival.

Pashley's CEO on how the UK made bike brand serves the B2B market

The new Cycling Industry News Podcast examines the new Uplift female mentorship programme for the bike trade, and speaks with female leaders for their take on diversity in the industry. 
CIN Podcast Host Sean Lalley interviewed Uplift founder Rachael Burnside as well as two Uplift mentees Kate Veronneau, Director of Women’s Strategy, Zwift and Nikki Hawes, former Country Leader UK, Cannondale.

The discussion covers the recent staggeringly negative findings from the Bicycle Association’s Diversity report, how to help the next generation come up through the cycling industry and bringing new perspectives to the bike trade.

Mentorship and diversity in the cycle industry

How can bike rental boost your bike shop?

There seems to be plenty of evidence that the bike rental and bike share market is growing and will continue to grow. Even more intriguingly, it is an area that appears largely resistant to a lot of the headwinds currently being endured by the cycling industry.

The latest Cycling Industry News Podcast takes a deep dive into the topic, tethered by the positive impact bike rental and demo bike fleet management can have on cash flow for bike shops and related businesses.

Regular CIN Podcast Host Sean Lally interviews Doug Stoddart Managing Director Bike Rent Manager on all things bike rental, including new customer creation and ensuring the industry meets customers on their terms.

How bike rental can bolster bike shop revenues

While some in the tangible cycling industry may feel digitalisation is some¬thing of a woolly concept, it is becoming ever more embedded, not least in those electric bikes and in production. Don’t believe us? In the summer of last year, Velco officially became Shimano’s off the shelf IoT (Internet of Things) partner.
 
Regular CIN Podcast Host Sean Lalley recently interviewed Johnny Smith, Co-Founder and CMO of Velco. Velco sells hardware and software for bikes, with the French and German company providing connectivity solutions for eBike brands. What this means for the industry includes preventative maintenance, greater security, fleet management capabilities and greater data…

Digitalisation, bike security and IoT for the eBike industry

Are cycle market standards where they need to be for the modern world? That’s one of the big questions posed within the latest CIN Podcast. Regular host Sean Lally speaks with the vastly experienced Mark Barfield from Velometier – a former Technical Manager at UCI who has also worked with British Cycling and British Triathlon.

Up to standard – bikes, safety & independent testing

Bike workshops and the mechanics that work within them are a vital part of the trade, but anxiety about attracting and retaining talent, providing liveable income for mechanics and on the increasing expertise required of technicians are sizeable concerns for the viability of this vital cog in the bike industry machine.

The latest CIN Podcast tackles this topic and more, with regular host Sean Lally speaking with the vastly experienced Mark Barfield, founder of the European Association of Professional Bike Mechanics (EAPBM) to represent and lobby on behalf of bike mechanics.

Speaking up: Raising the profile of bicycle workshop mechanics

Unfairly, the sales profession has to deal with a fair amount of negative baggage and cliches and – consequently – focusing on sales and sales training has often been sidelined, not least in the bike trade. Ultimately, however, businesses need sales, and companies within the bike trade are no different.

The latest CIN Podcast takes a closer look at this vital part of the bicycle industry, with the hugely experienced John Styles. In his 20-plus years in the bike trade, Styles has visited over 700 stores across the UK, Europe and US, gaining invaluable insights into bike sales techniques. Speaking with regular CIN Podcast host Sean Lally, Styles discusses making sales in the bike trade, training, tips and the importance of questions.

CIN Podcast: Sales is not a dirty word!

Storytelling, information, atmosphere… when you’re looking to optimise the layout of your retail space to maximise sales potential, the science and principles behind shop floor layouts can seem complex and brutally hard to grasp. But help is at hand for those who want to ease customers journeying to their shop counters. Forming part of our recent suite of CIN Podcasts designed to help bike shops boost profitability, retail design expert Gosia Adamska of WHiCH Interiors chats with regular host Sean Lally…  

Cycling Industry News Podcast: The blueprint for a successful bike shop

It's been a pretty busy time for Tern recently, and considering the roll out of the brand's Bikes for Business programme, click and collect initiative and now a new product launch, it's a wonder the team could conjure up a few spare minutes to appear on the latest episode of the CIN Podcast.

While at the Taipei Cycle Show, we caught up with Hon and Davis to hear all about what the urban transportation brand has been up to over the last year, discuss the huge potential of the urban mobility market for the bike industry, and why they believe local bike shops are integral to the sector's growth.

Focused solely on the trade, we’re inviting industry players, special guests (and just about anyone with an opinion) to talk about all the goings-on in the bike business. Fancy getting in touch with a topic you want discussed, or have something to say yourself? Then contact a member of the CIN team:

Jon Harker (Editor) jon@cyclingindustry.news

Hayley Everett (Staff Writer) hayley@cyclingindustry.news

Logan van de Poel Treacy (Sales & Social Media) logan@cyclingindustry.news

Urban mobility & sustainability with Tern Bicycles.

During the recent Eurobike show, the CI.N team caught up with SRAM's Alex Rafferty to discuss the latest news and innovations from the component manufacturer, notably the SRAM AXS and RockShox Reverb update launched in February.

Episode 7 - Alex Rafferty talks SRAM Group activity

Sales trainer Colin Rees shares how he has helped bike shops with customer interaction, store layout and getting recruitment right, discussing the skills he has brought to businesses in the bike trade over the years.

Episode 9 - Sales training & recruitment with Colin Rees

On this week's episode of the CyclingIndustry.News Podcast, we're joined by SRAM's James Leader, the brand's Territory Account Manager for the UK, Ireland, the Benelux and the Nordics.

Leader discusses the current 'tough' climate of the bike market in the UK, and highlights a number of ways the different territories he manages can learn from each other to boost cycling numbers.

Episode 12 - SRAM's James Leader

In this episode, CIN has a wide-ranging chat with Matt Hart, the brains behind the Torq Fitness brand. 
Naturally the conversation tackles cycle nutrition, but it also extends into education and advice in the sector. Hart also talks about ethics in the cycling industry and how nutrition brands can do their bit for sustainability as well as the shortcomings of current packaging options and more.

Episode 13 - TORQ founder Matt Hart

The latest episode of the CIN Podcast features an in-depth chat with Kryptonite's Daryl Slater and John Maisey on how Kryptonite has established itself as a leader in the cycle security market since its foundation in 1972, and how the brand is continually adapting and improving its technology to solve its customers' security challenges.

Episode 14 - Kryptonite & the security sector

The latest episode of the CyclingIndustry.News Podcast has arrived, welcoming 11-time world champion and six-time Olympic champion Sir Chris Hoy as this week's guest.

As Elite Sports Consultant, Hoy has a long-standing relationship with nutrition brand Science in Sport (SiS) and works closely with the brand to refine its products. During the podcast, Hoy provides insight into the conception behind SiS, why he decided to partner with it and lend his name as a brand ambassador, as well as talking through some of the established products in the range.

Episode 15 - Sir Chris Hoy & Science in Sport

The latest episode of the CyclingIndustry.News Podcast welcomes Biomechanical Researcher Niels Boon of Shimano's Bikefitting.com.

During the podcast, which was recorded earlier in the year at Madison's iceBike* show, Boon gives an overview of how the Bikefitting.com system works, providing insight into the system's different modules and stages. Boon outlines how bikefitters can carry out static measurements, quick fitting, saddle selection, 3D motion capture, and pedal analysis through the system, and how these can inform customers' buying decisions.

Episode 16 - Bikefitting with Niels Boon

The latest episode of the CyclingIndustry.News Podcast has arrived, featuring an in-depth chat with CEO and co-founder of bike share firm Beryl, Philip Ellis.

Naturally, the interview covers Beryl's expansion into the bike share market, but also extends into the challenges the sector faces in terms of increasing the number of urban cyclists and getting more people on bikes, as well as discussing the different operational and safety challenges faced by bike share firms.

Episode 18 -Urban mobility and bike share with Beryl's Philip Ellis

The latest episode of the CI.N Podcast draws on the veteran knowledge of two of the bike industry's best known mechanic trainers, Graeme Freestone King of Velotech Cycling and Sean Lally of Cycle Systems Academy.

Freestone King and Lally discuss the mechanic shortage that the industry seems to be experiencing at the moment, alongside the growth in upstarts of mobile mechanics who have been soaking up some of the coronavirus-related spike in workshop demand, after attending courses with Cycle Systems and Velotech.

The pair also offer their thoughts on whether they think the current demand for workshops can sustain, and what could help sustain this over the long term, including whether the industry will see more B2C brands linking up with mechanics, or if new infrastructure being laid down could steady the demand.

Episode 19 - Mechanic Training with Cycle Systems and Velotech Cycling

In the latest episode of the CI.N Podcast, we are joined by the Founder of eBikeLabs, Maël Bosson. Founded in 2015, eBikeLabs aims to accelerate the adoption of shared e-bikes in cities through its mission to help mobility operators to deploy large e-bike fleets into cities all around the world. 

In this episode, Bosson discusses the need to accelerate electric bike adoption on a large scale and improve the infrastructure of major cities to allow for the shift between cars to sustainable modes of transports in the form of e-Bikes.

Bosson discusses his history with e-Bikes and how he came to realise that the best way to build a sustainable e-Bike was to focus on the vehicle control unit (VCU) and e-Bike control cloud services that transform affordable electric bikes into enjoyable, theft proof, and low maintenance fleet vehicles.

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