The traced picture of Confindustria Ancma the Cycle Motorcycle Accessories Association. Despite the persistence of many uncertainties and difficulties related to the current conflicts and the “threats” related to the extent of the duties grow production, exports and, above all, the commercial balance of the sector, while the turnover (2.6 billion euros), driven by the success of the e-bike, remains in line with 2023 EA +24% compared to the pre-covid period. “The reading of the data tells us first of all that the market, as well as by a promising interest of the public, has also been supported thanks to the commitment and discounts of companies- explains the president of Ancma Mariano Roman- is an awareness that also helps us to grasp the real growth prospects that mobility can still offer, especially in the e-bike area, and also to ask for subsidiary measures to improve the competitiveness of companies. However, we confront a national context where the culture of the use of the bike is still very immature, as well as the infrastructures and the safety of users ».
To pull the sprint to the sector, e-bikes are confirmed. Continuing the reading of the report, the analysis confirms that 43% of those sold are e-city between pedaling bikes and 51% E-MTB, 5% E-Corsa/Gravel, while the e-cargo confirm around the 1% threshold. The universe of “muscle” bicycles is instead composed 33% of mountain bikes, 33% city-trikking, 17% bikes as a boy/to, 14% race-gravel, 2% folding and 1% other. The numbers of the entire industrial sector of our country is comforting with over 19,000 direct employees (plus as many indirects) and with about 230 companies that can count on many excellence: with over 1.7 million rooms, the overall production of bicycles (muscle + e-bike) of 1.2% of 1.2% and the commercial balance of the sector is also growing, i.e. the account that records the difference between exports and imports of the entire chain, which It marks a value of + 175 million euros.
The FCI asks for easier taxation. “After the boom linked to the pandemic, we took 2 years of decreases that, from today’s data, finally seems to have stopped- comments the president of the Italian cycling federation Cordiano Dagnoni- Italy discounts the lack of infrastructure and a taxation that favor the use and purchase of the bikes, as happens in countries such as Germany, Denmark and Belgium. In Germany 50% of bicycle purchases are financed with leasing deductible from taxes ».
The long wave of the Giro d’Italia. A push to the sector also give it the great sporting events related to cycling. The ride on all. Two billion and one hundred million euros is the value that the Giro d’Italia leads to the territories, estimated by Banca Ifis with the research “pedaling towards excellence: Giro d’Italia, bike and made in Italy chain”. The Italian bike supply chain shows growing numbers in all sectors even if the high -end products win, which do not suffer the competition of seeded products. As proof, the penetration rate of the Bike Italia supply chain in the UCI World Tour 2025 circuit: 90% of the teams use at least one Italian product. Data confirmed by the teams participating in the Giro d’Italia 2025: 91% of the lap teams (21 out of 23) use at least one Italian product; percentage that rises 100% in the case of the five Proteams.
The phenomenon of cycle tourism. It is the sector that grows the most. Last year he recorded a small boom both in terms of presences, estimated at 89 million (+54% on 2023), and as regards the economic impact, which reached almost 9.8 billion euros. This is what emerges from the report “Traveling with the Bike 2025”, created by Isnart-Unioncamere for the Observatory on the tourism economy of the Chambers of Commerce in collaboration with Legambiente. Cycle tourism is therefore confirmed as one of the main trends of tourism’s “new demand” in Italy, representing more than 10% of the total tourists in Italy, of which about half millennial (between 30 and 44 years of age); It is a potentially high-survey question with an economic situation declared at least medium-high in more than half of the cases.