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Mountain Bike Shorts

Maybe

The top 5 products take only 18% of clicks. But buyers convert on only 1.1% of searches, so Mountain Bike Shorts is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
60
60 / 100
Top 5% of 16,930 Clothing, Shoes & Jewelry niches · +15 vs the category median of 45
Market size
$225K/yr567K searches / yr
90-day growth
+67.4%search demand this quarter
Competition
18%top-5 click share · 31 brands · 62 sellers

Flapen Score

Mountain Bike Shorts against its category

The dotted line is the Clothing, Shoes & Jewelry average. Past it, Mountain Bike Shorts is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

60Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Mountain Bike Shorts market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Mountain Bike Shorts 567K times last year and spent an estimated $225K. The top 5 brands take 64% of clicks. Demand peaks in Apr–May–Jun–Jul. Flapen scores it 60 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 1.1% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 567K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 1.1% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +67.4% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $225K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
567K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+67.4%
Conversion, latest week
1.1%
Market size, estimated
$225Ka year
Peak month
June3.0× the quietest month
Top search term
mountain bike shorts100K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $37.51.

Listings sell for $37.51 on average, from $8.78 to $187.69. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 6K to 8K a year. The average listing sells 0 to 100 of them. At $37.51 that is $0 to $4K a year per listing.

Average price
$37.51inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$8.78–$187.69
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
6K–8K
Units per listing a year
0–100
Revenue per listing a year
$0–$4K
Returns
4.4%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads and reviews.

94% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 2.4% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #33 within Cycling. It carries 2,766 reviews at 4.34 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
94%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
2.4%
Average rank
#33in Cycling
Average rating
4.34 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
2,766per listing
Listings tracked
108

04 · Newcomers

3 of last year's 10 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

10 products launched here in the last 12 months. 3 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 52 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
10
Successful launches
3Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
52 months

Products

Top Mountain Bike Shorts products & what they sell for

Every tracked product: its share of the shelf, its reviews, and its price.

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Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take only 18% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

Brands

31 falling

Sellers

62

Top-5 brand share

64%

Top 20: 96%

Top-5 click share

18%

Top 20: 49%

Open market

31%

  • Brand 127%
  • Brand 212%
  • Brand 311%
  • Brand 49%
  • Brand 56%
  • Brand 65%

Demand

Mountain Bike Shorts search demand

Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.

20K15KBlack Friday '25Spike '26JulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJun

Peak months: Apr, May, Jun, Jul · busiest ÷ quietest = 3.0×

Search terms

Top Mountain Bike Shorts search terms shoppers use

The exact words shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth, and conversion.

  • mountain bike shorts100K/yr
  • mtb shorts92K/yr
  • pearl izumi bike shorts men57K/yr
  • mountain bike shorts for men49K/yr
  • mtb shorts for men39K/yr
  • mens mountain bike shorts28K/yr
  • biker shorts men33K/yr
  • mens biker shorts27K/yr
  • mens cycling clothing25K/yr
  • mountain biking shorts16K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Mountain Bike Shorts

We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.

20%of positive reviews mention “Comfort-Overall”
24%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
4.4%of orders come back
“Not a good fit”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”24% of negative reviews mention the same topic

Every topic

Every topic buyers talk about, one row each.

Red shows the share of negative reviews and green the share of positive reviews, biggest topic first. Open a row to read what they wrote.

15 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Mountain Bike Shorts questions

Answered from the same tracked data.