The price of bikes.

[AuroraSaab]

I agree current prices have risen by a crazy amount. Lots of factors though, including supply and demand during lockdown, and I also understand the cost of shipping containers has quadrupled or something in the last couple of years.

I guess the real question is whether these full rrp prices will be sustainable after the lockdown boom. At the moment there are very few deals available on new bikes, but perhaps retailers will have to go back to discounting from the rrp once demand falls off.

Even with a post Olympic cycling mini boom, most people only buy a bike every now and again.

 

[Kingfisher101]

I agree current prices have risen by a crazy amount. Lots of factors though, including supply and demand during lockdown, and I also understand the cost of shipping containers has quadrupled or something in the last couple of years.

I guess the real question is whether these full rrp prices will be sustainable after the lockdown boom. At the moment there are very few deals available on new bikes, but perhaps retailers will have to go back to discounting from the rrp once demand falls off.

Even with a post Olympic cycling mini boom, most people only buy a bike every now and again.

I dont know about that TBH, I've bought and sold a few in a year before now.

 

[cougie uk]

I think you're missing the point. What I'm saying is that bikes have shot up in price the last few years, the last couple in particular and that we are being ripped off basically. If some people don't mind then that's fair enough. Other people think hang on a minute.... Obviously no one is forcing anyone to buy anything.
There's very low stock or non in a lot of retailers and you often have to go on a waiting list if you want a new bike. Theres not plenty of affordable bikes around at all. Unless you fall lucky and get a secondhand one.

I bought a new titanium last year for under 2 grand. Seems a decent price to me.

With everything that's been going on - a pandemic disrupting production and a huge boost in demand as people don't want to get buses and trains - what do you expect ? Less bikes available and more people buying them.

That said - look at the Planet X bikes - they have decent availability and decent prices too.

 

[Blue Hills]

I bought a bike a couple of weeks ago for undisclosed sum as it was being sold due to a front tyre puncture and the previous owner couldn't be bothered to repair it

does he have any more bikes/flat tyres?

 

[biggs682]

does he have any more bikes/flat tyres?

Oy the new one he bought to replace it

 

[Dogtrousers]

Oy the new one he bought to replace it

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[lane]

In (I think) 2018 I bought my son a Ridgeback Element for £399. It was a 2017 model reduced from a RRP of £650. At the time I would have taken the RRP with a pinch if salt and assumed it would be available cheaper. I needed to check a spec on it today - and you would now need to pay £850 for it - no discount from what I saw. So from £399 in 2018 to £850 in 2021 - bloody hell!

 

[kayakerles]

Unfortunately prices go up and down in sync with supply and demand. This is a time of high demand and low supply, so prices are at a very high point. To be happy in these circumstances, or any circumstances for that we just have to find the range in which we are OK with spending, and see if anything we like is available that fits in that range. If nothing fits that has been in your range that you like AND can afford in that price range, it’s just probably not time to buy right now.

The very month at work that we were all sent to work from home, March 2020, I bought a previously owned bike for £252 pounds. Now a previously owned bike of equal caliber costs £361. However, even that is what I consider a very good price for a bike that was £721 new in 2009. Deore components, blah blah blah… The nicest bike I ever had.

We all hate the feeling that we are having to spend too much, but if we can find something we really like for a given price and can still afford it, then we can be happy.

Even though they may shift, we all have what we hope will be our upper limits. I hope to never spend more than £721 on a bike, but my next may be my last, and it will be an electric assist bike. Who knows, I may have to spend twice that amount by then, or hopefully the prices will drop by the time I want to get one. Demand for a good ebike is still high right now and so are the prices. But I will cross that bridge when I get to it, when I’m 70 (5 years to go, and retiring then.)

 

[Deleted User]

In (I think) 2018 I bought my son a Ridgeback Element for £399. It was a 2017 model reduced from a RRP of £650. At the time I would have taken the RRP with a pinch if salt and assumed it would be available cheaper. I needed to check a spec on it today - and you would now need to pay £850 for it - no discount from what I saw. So from £399 in 2018 to £850 in 2021 - bloody hell!

It always used to happen, rrp was X amount and when the next years bikes came out around September time the previous year any of that yrs bikes ( or even the previous yrs) were heavily discounted.

The last couple of yrs all stock has been sold so no need to discount, your bike hasn't really gone up from £399 to £850 you just bought an old model at the time at a discounted price.

 

[vickster]

In (I think) 2018 I bought my son a Ridgeback Element for £399. It was a 2017 model reduced from a RRP of £650. At the time I would have taken the RRP with a pinch if salt and assumed it would be available cheaper. I needed to check a spec on it today - and you would now need to pay £850 for it - no discount from what I saw. So from £399 in 2018 to £850 in 2021 - bloody hell!

More £650 to £850 though. Just there are very few discounts to be had on 2020/2021 models due to complete lack of stock. It is likely that, if not downgraded, every part used to make the 2021 bike costs the manufacturer more. Doubtful they are making more margin

 

[Venod]

They used to have some cracking short term deals, no need to these days (demand and lack of stock to flog off at a discount)

At the moment they seem to be offering a £200 off a different bike every week, the prices are still higher than recently though.

A Ti Tempest is down to £1599 from £1799 but @ianrauk payed £800 ! (which was brilliant price)

 

[AuroraSaab]

The last really good bike deal I saw was the Cannondale Slice bikes being sold off at £800 in small sizes last year. I do only look out for sub £1k bikes though. I only ever see the really pricey bikes heavily discounted at the moment. Until demand eases I don't think prices will be discounted, and even then I think higher prices are going to be the norm.

The second hand market might be where the bargains start to come through as people start to get rid of impulse purchases from the lockdown. But even then most of us keep bikes in sheds for years before we get around to passing them on.

 

[cougie uk]

At the moment they seem to be offering a £200 off a different bike every week, the prices are still higher than recently though.

A Ti Tempest is down to £1599 from £1799 but @ianrauk payed £800 ! (which was brilliant price)

I think that was frame only ?

PX do have sales so worth keeping an eye out.

 

[ianrauk]

I think that was frame only ?

Its was for the frame and front fork.
Now it's £1300

 

[vickster]

Its was for the frame and front fork.
Now it's £1300

Which makes £1599 for the whole bike a decent deal