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Posted: 1/25/2021 2:51:12 PM EDT
Trying to get a mountain bike to get back into it. Haven't ridden road in about 5 years due to an injury.
Think I'm dead set on the trek remedy 8 and call my local dealer to see if they have any. On backorder until spring or summer of next year. Closest store that has one in stock is in Missouri. Anyone have any connections with trek? |
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I saw a Specialized hardtail at my local shop for almost ten thousand dollars.
$10,000. For a hardtail. |
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Quoted: Trying to get a mountain bike to get back into it. Haven't ridden road in about 5 years due to an injury. Think I'm dead set on the trek remedy 8 and call my local dealer to see if they have any. On backorder until spring or summer of next year. Closest store that has one in stock is in Missouri. Anyone have any connections with trek? View Quote Most bike shops will ship to other shops. |
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Feel your pain. Want to replace my 10 year old road bike this year.
Not asking for much. Want a carbon frame, relaxed geometry, hydraulic discs and ultegra components (not di2). None to be had across any product lines. |
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I just wanted a beach cruiser this past summer. Unobtanium.
And it hasn’t changed. |
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Yup its bad. Can confirm on the Remedy 8. Many other models are the same
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Quoted: Trying to get a mountain bike to get back into it. Haven't ridden road in about 5 years due to an injury. Think I'm dead set on the trek remedy 8 and call my local dealer to see if they have any. On backorder until spring or summer of next year. Closest store that has one in stock is in Missouri. Anyone have any connections with trek? View Quote I work in a shop in Oklahoma. We've had folks from Houston and Kansas City drive here to get bikes |
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Really tempted to buy an Ice cream truck. I haven’t checked availability yet though
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Quoted: Trying to get a mountain bike to get back into it. Haven't ridden road in about 5 years due to an injury. Think I'm dead set on the trek remedy 8 and call my local dealer to see if they have any. On backorder until spring or summer of next year. Closest store that has one in stock is in Missouri. Anyone have any connections with trek? View Quote TREK is PRO BLM, @krammitthefrog https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/trek-responds-to-use-of-police-bikes-against-black-lives-matter-protesters/ |
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Makes me wonder how much I could sell my old Trek 4500 for... ??
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Quoted: Trying to get a mountain bike to get back into it. Haven't ridden road in about 5 years due to an injury. Think I'm dead set on the trek remedy 8 and call my local dealer to see if they have any. On backorder until spring or summer of next year. Closest store that has one in stock is in Missouri. Anyone have any connections with trek? View Quote Trek just sent an email to their dealers a week or so ago warning that by summer they expect to be taking orders for bikes that will be delivered in 2023. A lot of bikes are showing a 2022 delivery date right now. |
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Quoted: You know there are these things called postal services right? Most bike shops will ship to other shops. View Quote Not when the bike is already assembled and especially not when they know they can sell it locally just as easily. A Trek dealer could only ship a bike to another Trek dealer without violating their dealer agreement. If that happened the buyer could expect to pay full retail to the original shop plus shipping AND pay an assembly fee to the second store. |
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Quoted: Trying to get a mountain bike to get back into it. Haven't ridden road in about 5 years due to an injury. Think I'm dead set on the trek remedy 8 and call my local dealer to see if they have any. On backorder until spring or summer of next year. Closest store that has one in stock is in Missouri. Anyone have any connections with trek? View Quote Call that store and put a deposit down. Drive out pick it up. |
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Wonder what the deal is with their logistics.
Most bikes models are made in Asia, with just the tier 1 shit made in Waterloo, WI. Wonder if some stupid universal component is made in some covid shutdown Chinese factory or something? |
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Pretty soon it won’t just be the bad neighborhoods where people store their bikes in their house for increased security.
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Quoted: Wonder what the deal is with their logistics. Most bikes models are made in Asia, with just the tier 1 shit made in Waterloo, WI. Wonder if some stupid universal component is made in some covid shutdown Chinese factory or something? View Quote Read this thread and weep for our future... https://www.ar15.com/forums/General/Your-Peloton-is-late-and-your-shoes-and-blenders-will-cost-more-Ask-me-anything-I-m-a-freight-forwarder/5-2418832/ |
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All health and fitness equipment is rare right now.
Good luck finding 45# plates for your home gym. |
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BMX is the same, except the UK and Aussies are playing the same game as folks here in the US. Buying frames, forks and collecting parts for a build. Skyways is claiming they can't find a shipping container, meanwhile SE racing is finding a way to make it happen.
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Quoted: Wonder what the deal is with their logistics. Most bikes models are made in Asia, with just the tier 1 shit made in Waterloo, WI. Wonder if some stupid universal component is made in some covid shutdown Chinese factory or something? View Quote It's not just Trek. All manufacturers are in a bad way. Parts availability is an issue too. Trek was also pivoting manufacturing out of China when Covid hit as well. I'm seeing models previously made in China coming out of Cambodia and Vietnam now |
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I finally took my cannondale caffeine 29er that I bought on eBay years ago to a bike shop to fit a new set of forks
That’s small task has been crazy. First getting bearings was impossible as they are all chinesium And I didn’t want the original lefty style fork that went with it. I bought it was just a used frame. Hopefully buying the other components won’t be too bad. Need brake system and cranks, and shifter. Also seat post. And I want to try a Hobson style saddle. Also still have my 1990(?) rockhopper - I think Not a lot of miles on it and mostly rails to trails. That will be my fishing bike for trips to the youghiogeny river and maybe a few others |
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Components are difficult to find as well.
My Avid brakes shit the bed, and I was considering switching over to Shimano...guess I'll have to wait. |
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View Quote Thanks, I'll give it a look. There's actually a 2019 remedy 9.8 for a good price locally but it's a medium. |
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A friend owns a local bike shop. I was talking to him about supply issues, and he said he had just placed an order for bikes with a delivery date in 2022! He can get frames no problem, but the components are scarce. SRAM and Shimano have their own supply/production issues, plus the massive uptick in bike sales.
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Quoted: Components are difficult to find as well. My Avid brakes shit the bed, and I was considering switching over to Shimano...guess I'll have to wait. View Quote Avid brakes suck ass. If you can get them to warranty it do that for now and order a set of Shimano's. They may take 8 months to get in but at least you can rely on them working. |
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Canyon Spectral 7 is in stock in L and XL. Nice full squish trail bike.
Bike market was so bad in 2020 that I ended up replacing everything but the frame and bars on mine (rear shock rebuilt by Fox, forks replaced) instead of a new bike. |
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Quoted: Not when the bike is already assembled and especially not when they know they can sell it locally just as easily. A Trek dealer could only ship a bike to another Trek dealer without violating their dealer agreement. If that happened the buyer could expect to pay full retail to the original shop plus shipping AND pay an assembly fee to the second store. View Quote In other words , if you REALLY want this bike anytime in the next year . . . . be prepared to BEND OVER ! |
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Quoted: In other words , if you REALLY want this bike anytime in the next year . . . . be prepared to BEND OVER ! View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Not when the bike is already assembled and especially not when they know they can sell it locally just as easily. A Trek dealer could only ship a bike to another Trek dealer without violating their dealer agreement. If that happened the buyer could expect to pay full retail to the original shop plus shipping AND pay an assembly fee to the second store. In other words , if you REALLY want this bike anytime in the next year . . . . be prepared to BEND OVER ! A few months ago I had, literally, the last Trek Roscoe 8 in the nation in stock because I'd ordered it for a guy who backed out. A dude called me from 3 hours away wanting it and asked me if I'd give him a deal. He just spent hours calling every shop for hours around him to see if anyone has one in stock and he's looking for a deal. |
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there is a direct correlation between bike availability and the rise of BLM
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Quoted: there is a direct correlation between bike availability and the rise of BLM View Quote Attached File |
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I couldn't pass up the used bike prices a few months ago and sold both my Trek Superfly FS and my Cannondale F29 for more than I paid for them - and I got to use them for 2 years.
I figured that I could last for a year or so and then pick up a used bike for considerably cheaper when everyone is headed back into the office instead of working from home and a glut of used bikes is dumped into the second-hand market, or production catches up. |
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Quoted: A few months ago I had, literally, the last Trek Roscoe 8 in the nation in stock because I'd ordered it for a guy who backed out. A dude called me from 3 hours away wanting it and asked me if I'd give him a deal. He just spent hours calling every shop for hours around him to see if anyone has one in stock and he's looking for a deal. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Not when the bike is already assembled and especially not when they know they can sell it locally just as easily. A Trek dealer could only ship a bike to another Trek dealer without violating their dealer ahmmmogreement. If that happened the buyer could expect to pay full retail to the original shop plus shipping AND pay an assembly fee to the second store. In other words , if you REALLY want this bike anytime in the next year . . . . be prepared to BEND OVER ! A few months ago I had, literally, the last Trek Roscoe 8 in the nation in stock because I'd ordered it for a guy who backed out. A dude called me from 3 hours away wanting it and asked me if I'd give him a deal. He just spent hours calling every shop for hours around him to see if anyone has one in stock and he's looking for a deal. We get the same thing. Bikes dont sit around. |
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Trek is BLM Communist woke company and refused to provide bikes to cops last year. Why feed them???
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Just picked up a Trek Farley last week Attached File
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