BikeBiz Awards 2026: Categories Announced

This year, the BikeBiz Awards will take place on 15 October at the Button Factory in Birmingham. Every year, we host the awards to celebrate our industry.

This year, the BikeBiz awards will once again span five categories, with 20 awards, including some changes for 2026. We have changed the diversity category to impact, with the inclusion of a sustainability award. We’ve also added a ‘Best Team’ award to the distribution category, allowing the industry to nominate whole teams or specific teams within distribution companies. And finally, we’ve added an e-mobility category back into the brands category for this year.

BikeBiz Awards Categories 2026

Award Categories

See the Bikebiz Awards 2025 winners here

Key dates

Entries and nominations: Open from Monday, 1 June, and close at midnight on Friday, 3 July.

Voting: Opens Friday, 17 July, and closes at midnight Friday, 28 August.

Winners: Announced at The Button Factory in Birmingham on Thursday, 15 October.

How it works 

Entries and nominations 

Members of the cycling trade community will be invited to enter for one of our awards via an online form. Individuals can also nominate their favourite retailers, brands or individuals in any relevant categories.

Entries and nominations will be open from 1 June until midnight on 3 July.

The BikeBiz team will review every entry and nomination to ensure the necessary criteria are met to compile a shortlist for each award.

Voting

Voting will be carried out by our expert judging panel or by a wider vote open to the whole cycling industry, depending on the category (see below for the full list of awards and the voting procedure in each). Most awards will be decided by our judging panel, who offer years of combined experience in the cycling industry to select the winners.

Our judges come from a broad range of backgrounds in the industry. To make judging fair, judges will have to abstain from any award category that may relate to their organisation, to avoid any conflicts of interest – for example, retailer judges will not be permitted to vote in the retailer category of awards.

Judges will vote using an online form, selecting their preferred winner and a reason for their selection. In other categories, voting will be open to the wider cycling trade through an online voting form.

Shortlists will be announced, and voting will be open from Friday, 17 July, until midnight on Friday, 28 August. After the closure, the BikeBiz team will collate all the results.

The winners  

The winners will be announced on the night of 15 October, at The Button Factory in Birmingham.

These will be shared online at BikeBiz.com and across our social platforms, followed by a feature in the December edition of BikeBiz magazine.

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BikeBiz Awards Category Votes

Brands

Bike Brand: Open to all bike brands.*
P&A Brand: Open to all P&A brands.*
Product of the year: Open to any cycling brand/business with an innovative product/launch/service on or after January 1, 2025.*
E-mobility: Open to active bicycle brands available in the UK or European markets that specialise in e-bikes or cargo e-bikes. 

Distribution

Bike distributor: Open to all bike distributors*
P&A distributor: Open to all P&A distributors*
Specialist distributor: Open to any distributor specialising in a particular area of the market, e.g. e-bikes, BMX, MTB, triathlon or in a particular niche*
Best Team: Open to any distribution team (as a whole) working in the cycling industry.**

Retailer

IBD of the year: Open to independent brick-and-mortar retailers with a maximum of three locations**
Omnichannel retailer: Open to any omnichannel cycling retailers*
Retailer services: Open to any company providing services to benefit cycle industry members, e.g., training, EPOS, bike-fitting software*
Specialist Retailer: Open to any retailer specialising in a niche area of the market*

Impact

Cycle advocacy: Open to any company advocating cycling throughout the UK to benefit the cycle industry members, e.g. promoting funding schemes, cycling education, infrastructure campaigning*
Diversity Champion: A special award given to a person or organisation who has made a significant impact on diversity and inclusion in the cycling industry***
Woman of the year: Open to any woman who has made a marked impact in the cycle industry over the last year.**
Sustainability: Open to any brand/business/person making an impact with sustainability, e.g., an initiative, change to production/manufacturing.*

Industry Life

Event of the year: Open to any cycling event based in the UK, e.g trade show, race (or series), festival, sportive, etc.**
Mechanic of the year: Open to any mechanic working within the UK**
Unsung Hero of the year: Open to any deserving person who has contributed to the industry in a significant way in the past year**
Cycling Media of the year: Open to any UK cycling publication, podcast, magazine, website, YouTube channel etc**

*winner decided by judging panel
**winner decided by voting open to whole cycle industry
***winner decided by the BikeBiz team

Full category voting criteria will be available on the BikeBiz Awards website.

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For more information about sponsorship opportunities for the BikeBiz Awards, contact Richard Setters – RSetters@datateam.co.uk