SINGAPORE — A pair of foldable bicycles that 44-year-old Firdaus Ismail once treasured during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic is now gathering dust in the corner of his home.
The owner of a logistics company bought the pair of bicycles for S$750 each in June 2020, so that he and his wife could cycle together during the strict social gathering restrictions imposed back then.
He added that as the border controls lifted in 2022, he and his friends would rather spend their time travelling overseas than plying the roads on their two-wheelers. On one hand, some cyclists such as Mr Firdaus are looking to get rid of their two-wheelers, and on the other, some bicycle shops have started seeing a sharp decline in their sales, with some having shut down.
One was a shop that freelance bicycle mechanic Lynten Ong, 56, had helped to open back in March last year.
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