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[Music] I've ridden my bike today down to the London bike show one of the UK's biggest annual exhibitions of what's new and exciting in the world of bicycles and I'm here to answer a mystery the UK's bike sales have been stubbornly stuck last year at around 3 and A2 million a year the question I want to answer is is there a tech technology out there that can get those sales figures moving again here inside the bike Shaw as you might expect there's no shortage of the kind of eye-catching high-end bike that many people would associate with recent years's boom in sport cycling among them is this 8,000 bike which which weighs just 5 kilos [Music] but however eye-catching some of the fancy road bikes or mountain bikes are there's two outstanding Innovations of which there are many examples at this year's London bike show are much more practical and I'm sitting on one of them this is a Dutch Buck feet bike a box bike that's designed to carry a huge amount of cargo there are many different examples of these kinds of cargo bikes at this year's bike show what they do is they transform the carrying power of a humble bicycle they're able to carry 100 or more kilos and what that means is instead of just carrying yourself these will carry your children to school The Goods the final mile to your customer and these are hugely growing in popularity in an increasingly congested written the even more noticeable area of growth of this year's London bike show is in bikes like this ebikes bikes that have some kind of electrical assistance for the rider these bikes are aimed at perhaps older people people who aren't quite as fit or people who are car carrying a really heavy load in cargo bikes like the ones we saw before we've seen folding ebikes we've seen Mountain ebikes all kinds of different bikes with one thing in common that they've got some kind of electrical assistance of the kind I'm about to experience riding the seike really is a very different experience from the bike that I rode in on a normal pedal powered bicycle I'm feeling a very definite assistance from the electric motor in the bike but for the cycle industry the key point is less that these bikes have electric motors in them than the cost cargo bikes can cost up to £4,000 with es assist a bite like this will easily cost £1,000 and the hope is that after years when UK cycle sales have been stubbornly stuck around 3 and A2 million Vehicles like this will provide a bit of financial assist as well as electrical assist to the industry Robert Wright Financial Times London bike Sha