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AARAU, Switzerland - For the third year in a row, 2022 was not a normal one in the Swiss bicycle market. Although e-bike deliveries rose for the first time to over 200,000 units, with an increase of 17%, the overall market marginally shrank again to 483,562 units. This was due to the decline in traditional bicycle sales.

ZEIST, the Netherlands - In a year the market was troubled by supply chain shortages, the bicycle import value saw a remarkable increase seldomly seen before. In 2022 the price per unit was pushed up even more and recorded a growth of 38.2%. These figures mark a turn-around of the market value which has seen a slow but steady decline since e-bike sales gained momentum.

PARIS, France - Despite the COVID-19 pandemic and the shortages of bikes and components, the French market has recorded a strong increase in 2021. In the French Bicycle Observatory published by the industry organisation Union Sport & Cycle the total market volume increase by 3.9% to 2,789,545 representing a value of €2.215 billion, an increase of 15.1%.

PARIS, France - The French bike market has seen a tremendous sales increase year in 2020. While the sport market was heavily impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, the cycling industry generated a huge increase, with total sales hiking by 25% from 2,417 billion in 2019 to more than 3 billion last year. A record.

PRAGUE, Czech Republic - Unlike many other countries which reported an increase in both sales and an interest in cycling, nothing remarkable has happened in the Czech Republic during the corona pandemic. Sure, the spring sales were large at the beginning of the season and after the 4-week lockdown.

HELSINKI, Finland - In line with the trend as in most other European countries, e-bike sales in Finland increased in 2019. Although the number of units is still relatively small, the total market volume increased spectacularly to 23,000 e-bikes last year.

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With total sales of 120,474 e-bikes the 'e' category reached a 29.1% share in the total bicycle sale of the country in 2017. According to association VSSÖ '

The outlook of the Austrian bicycle industry is very positive due to skyrocketing e-bike sales. Nevertheless the overall market decreased last year by 2.8%.