The majors, DACH and Canada — explicit gaps and the bottom line

Explicit gaps

• Season price tables for Eurobike, Velociped and Rückenwind — client-side rendered;
  confirmed at HTML level (Eurobike's 516 KB page contains one price in schema.org
  markup and zero occurrences of "Doppelzimmer"); the /de/preisrechner SPA returns
  nothing server-side.
• Trek Travel and Butterfield & Robinson pricing — JS checkouts returned "$0.00" or
  footer-only on every attempt. No self-guided price, single supplement or e-bike
  surcharge for either.
• Macs Adventure bike-hire and e-bike prices — behind the booking flow; bike hire is
  explicitly excluded from both the Mosel and Bordeaux trips.
• Inntravel's support documentation — four URL patterns, all 404. They publish
  prices well and support terms not at all.
• Backroads FAQ (van mechanics, e-bike surcharge, single supplement, wine shipping)
  — /about-us/faq 404s.
• Niagara Wine Tours International — no working first-party URL found.
• Bett+Bike certified-business count — homepage gives scheme age only.
• Per-person shuttle fares and self-guided prices in Canada are systematically
  hidden inside FlyBook, FareHarbor and Checkfront carts. This is not an artefact of
  method — it is an industry norm, and it means competitive shuttle pricing in Canada
  can only be obtained by mystery-shopping a live booking.
• Impaired-cycling law in BC and Ontario — not verified on a government source.
  The loosest remaining thread.
• Ontario's tour-van licensing seat threshold.
• Winery commission terms — no operator or association publishes them, in any market.
• Wine shipping rates to Australia — no producer checked publishes non-European rates.
• Guest volumes and fleet sizes — only Rückenwind (11,000+ in 2017) and Macs
  Adventure (150+ staff) publish anything usable.
• Hotline languages and response times — nobody publishes these, anywhere.
• WebSearch was unavailable for the entire session, so negative findings that depend
  on broad discovery (e.g. "no roving-van operator exists") are strong on the operators
  checked but cannot be treated as exhaustive.

BOTTOM LINE

Three of the four building blocks of the Australian concept have been proven
separately in the field, by different businesses, on two continents:

• Grape Escape (Niagara) collects wine purchases from participating wineries for free
• Epic Cycling (Penticton) pairs a rental fleet with its own short-let properties
• Bloomfield Bicycle (PEC) ran county-wide delivery plus on-call roadside rescue
• Myra Canyon (Kelowna) delivers bikes to a guest's accommodation and runs a
  self-guided tour off it
• and the ADFC funds a 24/7 national bike-rescue hotline from a €66 membership across
  240,000 people

What nobody has done is run them together, all day, as one shared, roving service.
Support is either scheduled (Hoodoo's morning departures), single-sweep (Grape
Escape's 16:30–17:00 collection), private (Vivid's dedicated van), or
reactive-and-chargeable (Hoodoo's $100 extraction). The van is always either
dedicated to one group at USD 5,000+ per head, or shared but on a timetable.
A van that is both shared across unrelated groups and continuously roving is genuinely
unoccupied ground.

Three cautions the evidence supports:

1. Bloomfield tried the closest thing and suspended it.
2. Hoodoo's flagship bike-and-wine tour ran eight departures in a whole season.
3. German regulators are actively moving to tighten drink-cycling law in the largest
   self-guided market on earth.

And three real numbers to build the unit economics on: Hoodoo's 4-seat shared-van
minimum, Hoodoo's CAD $100 extraction floor, and Ridenet's 17% platform take
rate.