Rolling With New Retail Advice: Bicycle Store Owners Come To Las Vegas For CABDA Bike Shop Trade Show This Week
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By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer
LAS VEGAS, Nevada — These can be maddening days for bicycle store owners, who are coping with everything from the financial fallout of tariffs and supplier issues to governments cracking down on e-bikes and what to do with extra inventory.
To offer some help to these retail bike shop proprietors. Jim Kersten is staging a B2B bicycle store trade show here in downtown Las Vegas Wednesday and Thursday after the National Bicycle Dealers Association (NBDA) held a two-day summit on these hot-button bike sales issues.
Kersten, who puts on three CABDA bike shop shows a year in the east, midwest and the west, welcomed the bicycle retailers at the Expo at the World Trade Market right before 10 AM. CABDA stands for the Chicago Arena Bicycle Dealers Association and Kersten took the show east and west.
LVSportsBiz.com caught up with Kirsten at his Las Vegas western show for an interview on the trade show:
The bicycle industry used to get together every September for a big show called Interbike, but the trade event fizzled out in Las Vegas in 2017.
So, Kersten’s western CABDA show is like a tiny, mini-Interbike of about 1,600-1,700 participants and 160 brands that allows bike shop owners to check out the dozens of exhibitors showing products ranging from bicycle and clothing to bike parts and cleaners.
A big bicycle event called the Sea Otter Classic bike races and festival in Monterey, California in mid-April has become a major hub for companies to show bike-related products with Interbike no longer around.
Intetestingly enough, a representative from the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) reached out to bike industry leaders to discuss the idea of rekindling Interbike in Las Vegas in connection with a Tour de France-branded bicycle ride in Summerlin and Red Rock canyon. But weather conditions wiped out the bicycle ride event in Red Rock Canyon in 2024 and 2025 and behind-the-scenes discussion of the Interbike show returning to Las Vegas faded away.
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