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Originally Posted by combustiblefuel
I work in a shop that sponsors all types of riders and my boss was a nationally ranked rider. We are talking $5000 to 18000 for a quility bike in trail/enduro bike. 4500 and up is just what the average joe needs to pay for a rec bike. to start.3800 to 20,000,000 for a road bike/gravel/ cyclocross race quality bike.
Quility bikes aren't cheap and this year the average cost for a new bike across the whole price spectrum is 550 to 800 bucks even of nothing changes spec wise.
Company's have cut shops orders up to 70%, pre-orders for some products are over 450 days needed in advance now. The distributors are no longer offering terms for orders and no more free shipping on certain mins like there use to be.
You use to be able to find a decent fully for around 3500 but no more.
You could find a decent ok touring bike for around 1800 bucks but that same bike and level of components are now closer to 2600
Trust me it's not the shops doing it. Everything from start to finish in the process went up. We are just the last guys getting screwed in the line .
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The price of bikes in Vancouver boggles my mind, I picked up a lovely 20 year old Titanium Lemond last year in Seattle for around 1600 and my bike shop called me to say some guy wanted to buy it for 2500 when it was having a new cassette installed, I swear I could make a good living buying second hand bikes in Seattle and selling them to hipsters in Vancouver