International Bike Fitter • Issue Two • August 2020 •
EDITOR’S LETTER
W
ell we made it to issue two!
and coping with the challenges that that brings — I
The world has changed so much
am still hopeful that this may be the start of a
over the last three months that
meaningful shift towards using bicycles more, both
we’re now looking at a very different commercial
as a means to exercise and as a form of transport,
and social landscape to the one when we first
which can only be a positive thing for our industry.
published our first issue.
We have an article this month all about the new
The cycling industry hasn’t seen a surge in demand this large since the 1950s and we are all
surge in cycling, written by our president, Andy Brooke (page 3).
having to constantly adapt to the changing situation. I don’t remember a time in my professional career when it was so hard to buy gear cables!
Keeping connected One of the things that has made pulling this edition together really interesting has been the
With the world in such a state of flux, and with
ability to catch up with people living outside of our
all of you out there in varied levels of lockdown —
own little bubbles of reality. It’s become very easy
