Name: How Bike Shops Kept Up With America’s 121% Spike In Demand
Uploaded: 2021-05-25T14:40:57.000Z
Duration: 5 min 50 s
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Americans returned to a trusted classic: the bicycle.

In March, leisure-bike sales increased by 121% in the US.

Adam McDermott: At no point did we ever satisfy demand.

all the way back to that side of the warehouse

and we can ship them the bike that same day.

Narrator: That's Mehdi, the founder of State Bicycle

Narrator: Then COVID-19 shut down the factories

for an additional month through February.

That happened just before demand for bikes

started to surge stateside, in mid-March.

Mehdi still had trouble bringing new bikes in.

Mehdi: Production times are getting longer and longer,

His company, Linus Bike, was wiped clean of its bikes.

Narrator: Adam and his business partner, Chad Kushner,

Customers can buy their '50s French-inspired city bikes

Adam: Our web traffic increased by, like, 150%.

we're seeing, you know, 100% increase in revenue.

But we stopped by the Simi Valley warehouse in LA.

Adam: We're down to kind of just the bare minimum here.

that's really what we're facing right now.

Narrator: From his Venice Beach shop not too far away,

Adam's team would normally sell wheels to walk-in customers,

meaning they could buy a bike and take it home that day.

But since the pandemic, this isn't an option.

Adam: Inventory that was supposed to last us

the entire year, we were selling just in a matter of months.

So, at, like, peak, in July, we were back-ordering

double the time to produce a single bike.

To keep up with demand, both companies had to get creative.

Mehdi: We quickly went to a preorder method

and started ramping up our production overseas.

Narrator: Mehdi also put a cap on the number of bikes

and kind of taking away availability from some other shops.

so we diverted all inventory to the West Coast,

just 'cause it seemed like this warehouse

So, we're doing all our shipping from the West Coast.

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