{"id":512040,"date":"2026-03-01T15:48:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T15:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/512040\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T15:48:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T15:48:12","slug":"japans-shimano-struggles-with-excess-bicycle-stock-in-europe-and-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/512040\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s Shimano struggles with excess bicycle stock in Europe and China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/companies\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Companies<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">World&#8217;s largest parts maker hit by plunging bicycle prices after cycling booms<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/6\/5.jpeg\" alt=\"20260223 Shimano main\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Beijing cyclists:\u00a0China saw an outdoor sports boom in 2024 that created a bicycle bubble. \u00a9 Reuters<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">SAKAI, Japan &#8212; Shimano, the world&#8217;s largest bicycle parts maker, is struggling after excessive stocks of bicycles were accumulated in Europe and China, its main markets. The Japanese company was unable to dissuade client bicycle makers from overproducing during outdoor activity booms in the first half of the decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Companies World&#8217;s largest parts maker hit by plunging bicycle prices after cycling booms Beijing cyclists:\u00a0China saw an outdoor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,3170,99,512,164,2057,96168,38117,20695,5473,25773],"class_list":{"0":"post-512040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-bicycle","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-china","13":"tag-economy","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-excess","16":"tag-japans","17":"tag-shimano","18":"tag-stock","19":"tag-struggles"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}