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LOCKED DOWN THINKING

All going to plan, Issue 81 was meant to go to print the week New Zealand went into lockdown. We had written some closing remarks of what Covid-19 might mean for the bike industry, but as things changed we thought this might be better suited as a reflections article. The lockdown has been weird. We now have an appreciation of what it's like to be an animal stuck in the zoo; monotonous routines enclosed in a relatively small place. For some, it’s been business as usual (kudos to our essential workers), while for others it’s meant readily adapting to working from home with plenty to do. On the other end

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