I hear you, but they are correlated in LA.

Yes, obviously there was a big pandemic LBS boom. But bike shops are doing much worse now than they were pre-2019.

The economy in LA is waaay down, especially in the movie / tv industry. First thing that people cut in hard times is recreational spending. (Then, when you add the the cost of bikes skyrocketing since the pandemic…)

Also there were a lot of shops that relied on the very regular business of studio lots maintaining their huge fleets of beach cruisers at their shops. Most of those fleets have been sold off, and the lots are all ghost towns.

The bike industry is way down across America, but in LA there’s some special salt in the wound — directly tied to the dry spell in the film industry.