MANILA, Philippines—The COVID-19 pandemic has opened the floodgate for a bicycle boom across the globe.
In 2020, the boom made its presence felt in the Philippines.
A study by the e-commerce aggregator iPrice Group showed an increasing interest in bicycles by Filipinos.
The volume of Google searches by Filipinos on bicycles, e-bikes and e-scooters continued to increase from January to March last year.
From 503,720 in April 2020, the number of searches for bicycles among Filipinos tripled to 1,168,520 in May of the same year. It further increased to 1,477,860 in June, a month after.
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