The Space - The Rise of the Bicycle
FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH with Blake Melnick
English - August 12, 2020 16:00 - 34 minutes - 23.7 MBSociety & Culture innovation blake melnick cam brown knowledge knowledge management Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
As the coronavirus pandemic shrinks life in major Canadian and American cities — limiting familiar pastimes and discouraging the use of buses and subways and other forms of mass transit — hundreds of thousands of us are flocking to one of the most basic forms of mobility: the bicycle.
In March, nationwide sales of bicycles, equipment and repair services nearly doubled compared with the same period last year, according to the N.P.D. Group, a market research company. Sales of commuter and fitness bikes in the same month increased 66 percent, leisure bikes jumped 121 percent, children’s bikes went up 59 percent and electric bikes rose 85 percent.By the end of April, many stores and distributors had sold out of low-end consumer bikes. Now, the United States is facing a severe bicycle shortage as global supply chains, disrupted by the coronavirus outbreak, scramble to meet the surge in demand. (New York Times)
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