A BIG article on biggest czech Zeitung, about bike vendors struggling to sell all their inventory.
Apparently they though the boom from c*vid years was gonna continue, everybody would be buying new bike every year and now they are full surprised pikachu that nobody is buying.
Comments are ripping them, saying Decathlon is much cheaper and even buying and shipping bikes from exotic countries like Italy or Spain is much cheaper.

> Sellers expected the buying frenzy to continue for some time. After the pandemic, however, the market was expecting a steep decline in 2023. Demand returned to the pre-Covid period, which sellers were not prepared for. This left a large number of bicycles in stock, but there was no demand for them. Or worse. “After the pandemic subsided, ordered and delayed supplies from previous years arrived, which led to overstocked warehouses,”

https://www.idnes.cz/ekonomika/domaci/jizdni-kola-slevy-ceny.A250514_151048_ekonomika_ven