- Location
- London
not long since I was getting 9 speed cassettes for £15 or less.
Am afraid i don't see these sunlit uplands - even lower end rear mechs seem to have shot up in price.
When will the bike shortage in the UK end ?
- Thread starter kingrollo
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Am afraid i don't see these sunlit uplands - even lower end rear mechs seem to have shot up in price.
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
I was buying some stuff recently and added to my order 2 chains that I don't need right now. I am a bad, bad panic buyer.
SkipdiverJohn
Deplorable Brexiteer
- Location
- London
The findings from my skip salvage suggests that low end bikes often get abandoned either due to age and long disuse, typically having perished tyres but not much else wrong with them, or something on a newer bike gets crashed & trashed and renders it uneconomic to fix but the rest of the bike still has some perfectly useable stuff on it, which I harvest. Cheap 26" hardtail and full sus MTB's are the most numerous by a clear mile, followed by 24" junior sized stuff which are mechanically very similar.
I'm doing my best to be the exeption to the rule of not managing to wear out the mechanicals of low end bikes, but mine are proving to be surprisingly durable.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
You can still get shimano 9 speed mountain bike cassettes for between £20-25
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Milzy
Guru
True but I want frame warranty. Heard a few stories of people finding cracked carbon because they didn’t turn the bike upside down to inspect.
biggs682
Touch it up and ride it
- Location
- Northamptonshire
Frame warranties only apply to original owner so yes if that is important then it would have to be new
Milzy
Guru
A Terry Dolan frame I want is supposed to come in stock this week but I bet it will be delayed by a month claiming logistical issues. Then in a month delayed again & so on & so on until you ask for your money back then start the lottery all over again somewhere else. I may end up buying second hand after all.
PaulSB
Legendary Member
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
My son has taken delivery of two Dolans in the last 12 months, one about six weeks ago, both arrived on time. A friend received hers last week again on time.
You may be pleasantly surprised.
Regarding the original question I would expect late summer 2023. Yesterday my LBS quoted me February for the Ultegra groupset I'm after.
- Location
- London
link/s please.
Though appreciate that there may be a supply issue at the moment - I DO mostly use MTB type stuff.
- Location
- London
thanks, but still out of stock i think, like last time I looked.
Any idea who makes decathlon's own brand drivetrain bits? I ask as in the past some of their cheaper cranksets (I was looking for an 8 speed build just as Shimano 8 speed Alivio was disappearing) looked very like Shimano's own stuff to me.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
No idea who makes their stuff.
I think that particular one may be microshift.
fair weather cyclist
Guest
2nd hand market very buoyant at the moment. Lots of bikes and at good prices. Could have gotten a much better deal now for my partner's bike
deaninkl
Regular
- Location
- Malaysia/Taiwan
Believe me its not just the UK that have bike supply issues, and its not just bikes, pretty much everything mechanical component wise that has its manufacturing done in China currently has issues. I live in Taiwan, can't get bikes here either.. parts suppliers in China don't know where and when materials will arrive, so the big assemblers in Taiwan can't get components.... and its not just materials, containers for shipping are currently in very short supply, thus pushing up costs. Covid measures in factories in China and Taiwan have seriously slowed production. There is close to zero international traveling in Asia.. so technicians and engineers are not traveling.
As bicycle manufacturing is not seen as a priority for either China or Taiwan, governments are concentrating of other industries..... so these issues are going to go on well into next year and even beyond.
A friend locally here in Taipei has had a Surly Disc Trucker on order since last November, this week he gave up and the LBS have given him his deposit back. I have wanted a Merida Silex 400 for a long while, I gave up and bought a 200 that I found in a shop in my size, as no one could give me delivery date for new bikes in 2021 or now 2022.... I wanted the GRX drive train on the Silex 400, but now have settled for Sora on the 200.... I'll wait a couple of years and then see whats out there.
As bicycle manufacturing is not seen as a priority for either China or Taiwan, governments are concentrating of other industries..... so these issues are going to go on well into next year and even beyond.
A friend locally here in Taipei has had a Surly Disc Trucker on order since last November, this week he gave up and the LBS have given him his deposit back. I have wanted a Merida Silex 400 for a long while, I gave up and bought a 200 that I found in a shop in my size, as no one could give me delivery date for new bikes in 2021 or now 2022.... I wanted the GRX drive train on the Silex 400, but now have settled for Sora on the 200.... I'll wait a couple of years and then see whats out there.
