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Storskogen UK has acquired the majority of shares of cycling parts and accessories distributor Extra UK.

Lezyne – Micro C Distributor: Upgrade You, your Phone and Lezyne GPS: The Cycling Trinity. Our Micro C GPS range now works in harmony with your Smartphone, making it the ultimate cycling device. Use mapping from the Lezyne GPS Root website to follow a route, tackle Strava KOMs and QOMs with our Live Segments feature and stay connected with phone notifications direct to your GPS unit. These feature-rich GPS computers now have enhanced accuracy with an internal accelerometer to give you the best possible data about your ride or race. Garmin – Edge 530 Distributor: Madison The Edge 530 is p...

Extra UK has introduced the new Topeak Bicycle Fix Station. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the industry has seen a resurgence of people getting back into cycling or using their existing bikes as a mode of transport as well as leisure. This has highlighted the need for improved cycling infrastructure, and the new Topeak Bicycle Fix Station aims to help meet some of those requirements – enabling users to make simple repairs or adjustments whenever they need to. The full metal workstation can be installed in a public space for simple bike maintenance and repair, making it available for use 24 h...

After months of negotiations, the UK and EU finally agreed a Brexit deal which came into effect at 11pm on 31st December 2020. But what are the implications for the cycling trade? Rebecca Morley catches up the Bicycle Association’s Peter Eland to find out what the industry now faces and how optimistic we can be looking forward It seems strange to think that during 2020, the year in which the UK officially left the European Union, this very topic hardly dominated headlines. The COVID-19 pandemic and its global impact have, quite rightly, taken centre stage over the past 12 months, but, follo...

MBR This double-whammy means prices for UK bikes and parts are only going one way – up. Will bikes cost more after Brexit? We put that question to a dozen brands at the start of January and the resounding answer was neither yes nor no. It was: we don’t know, check back again in a few month’s time. So two months on, we’ve asked again: have costs gone up, by how much, and why? The first question is easy to answer; yes they have. Direct sales is the easiest place to start because there’s no hiding from the final price in your online basket.