2025 Year in Review
As 2025 comes to a close, we’re taking a step back to reflect on the year on Bike Hub. It’s been a year of record-breaking sales and steady growth. While headline traffic numbers dipped slightly, the metrics that matter most: engagement, leads, and confirmed sales – tell the story of a marketplace that continues to […]
Quarter Turn: Bike Hub Q1 2025 Report
Better late than never. We have switched to a new reporting dashboard and been deep down the rabbit-hole rebuilding reports. Since 2024, we’ve been tracking marketplace data each quarter to spot trends on our platform. With Q1 2025 wrapped up, we have fresh insights into buyer interest, category shifts, and emerging patterns. Dive into the […]
2024: Bike Hub Year in Review
As 2024 draws to a close, let’s take a look back at the year on Bike Hub. Our Quarterly reviews have shown that demand is stabilising across categories, indicating that the Covid-induced supply chain crisis is resolving. Against this backdrop, we’ve seen positive growth in website usage and marketplace activity, particularly in the gravel and […]
Quarter Turn: Bike Hub Q3 2024 Report
We’ve been checking in every quarter to assess demand in our marketplace. In the first quarter of 2024 we noted that demand appeared to be stabilising after the COVID bicycle boom, and subsequent reset. In the second quarter of 2024 we saw a 5% increase in demand year on year, offering reassurance that equilibrium has […]
20 Years of Bike Hub
In August* 2024, Bike Hub celebrated its 20th anniversary, and we’re taking a nostalgic look back at how far we’ve come. * We’re not entirely sure of the exact month, but it was around this time. 2004: How it all started What began in 2004 as thehubsa.co.za was initially a simple discussion forum for cycling […]
Quarter Turn: Bike Hub Q2 2024 Report
After the first quarter of 2024 we dug into the data to determine how a widespread oversupply crisis in the cycling industry was impacting our marketplace. We saw that it wasn’t all doom and gloom, but noted that we’d need to see consistently stable demand in order to draw meaningful conclusions. Here’s what we found […]
Quarter Turn: Bike Hub Q1 2024 Report
We’ve all heard the rumblings of a global crisis in the bike industry. Full warehouses. Company-wide layoffs. Cut-price sales. Business closures. We were curious to know how this is playing out on Bike Hub. Is it truly all doom and gloom? How are the community of buyers and sellers on Bike Hub being impacted? Will […]
Bike Hub 2023: Year in Review
As 2023 draws to a close, let’s rewind the past 12 months on Bike Hub. This year, events continued their comeback: a welcome return to some semblance of normalcy. However, the supply chain challenges of 2020-2022 transformed into a global oversupply issue, impacting numerous brands. This shift prompted major players to implement significant price reductions […]
Bike Hub: 2020 Year in Review
It’s that time of year again where we take a look back what went down on Bike Hub over the past 12 months. For the bike industry as a whole, 2020 had its fair share of headwinds, some solid tailwinds and a few broken spokes along the way. At Bike Hub HQ we kicked off […]
Bike Hub: 2019 Year in Review
Want to know what went down on Bike Hub in 2019? Take a run through the headline numbers, classifieds statistics, most read articles, the top contributors, most viewed and discussed topics… it’s all here. Website Stats – Visitors In 2019 we saw some modest to steady gains across most numbers and despite a generally negative […]
2014 Year on The Hub in Review
Each year around this time we pull together some of the numbers behind what went down on The Hub in 2014. Before you get stuck in just a quick thanks to all Hubbers for your part in our continued growth. From the casual browser to the regular contributors, mountain bikers to unicyclists, from the lycra […]