Geelong (area) bike retailer closures

[powinc]

I rode past Geelong City Cycles the other day and it was closed up. It wasn't much of a business anyway and can understand how it went bust. But I then realised it was the 5th shop to close in the area over the last 5 years.

The retailers to have closed have been:
Canyon Cycles - Geelong City
Geelong Triathlon Centre - Geelong City
Epi Cycles - Torquay
Hendry Cycles - Drysdale
Geelong City Cycles - Grovedale

These closures seem to go against a trend that more retailers have opened in the same period in Melbourne's CBD. For example SBR & CHM (Bourke St)??

powinc

 

[John Doe]

"powinc" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> I rode past Geelong City Cycles the other day and it was
> closed up. It wasn't much of a business anyway and can
> understand how it went bust. But I then realised it was
> the 5th shop to close in the area over the last 5 years.
>
> The retailers to have closed have been: Canyon Cycles -
> Geelong City Geelong Triathlon Centre - Geelong City Epi
> Cycles - Torquay Hendry Cycles - Drysdale Geelong City
> Cycles - Grovedale
>
> These closures seem to go against a trend that more
> retailers have opened in the same period in Melbourne's
> CBD. For example SBR & CHM (Bourke St)??
>
> powinc
>

and against the trend that reportedly the participation rate
is increasing.