shimano prices

mountainroadie
mountainroadie Posts: 244
edited May 2009 in Commuting chat
just picked up my carbon hardtail from LBS .it was needing a cassette and a new chain i had an xtr cassette and a ti nitrade KMC chain on it and cause of the new prices i did not want to replace like for like.
here lies the problem i have to "DOWNGRADE" to a xt cassette and a sram chain :cry:
but wait......
i am cycling home and cannot tell the difference..........
i will be buying this from now on

HAPPY DAYZ :D

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  • Rich158
    Rich158 Posts: 2,348
    Shimano prices have gone through the roof. I was quoted £230 for a compact Ultegra SL chainset from my LBS recently :shock:
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  • nwallace
    nwallace Posts: 1,465
    edited May 2009
    http://www.discount-currency-exchange.c ... -graph.cfm

    This time lasy year a pound bought, 1.9 USD, today a pound buys 1.51 USD
    This time last year a pound bought, 1.25 Euros, today a Pound buys 1.13 Euros
    This time last year a pound bought 203 Yen (and it rose for a coupel of months) now it gets you 148 Yen, it bottomed out at 122 Yen in February.

    A Biek shop owner I was speaking to was saying that every time he put's a set of Shimano price updates into his system, the distributors phone ap and give him a new set of prices.
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  • tardington
    tardington Posts: 1,379
    Also, google search for SWIZING FORENERS.
  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    If it continues Campag may reclaim the largest percentage of the component market again.

    All Campag would need to do is drop £100 off its prices (never happen) for its European market.

    Campag dropping their prices may make it near impossible for Shimano to compete given their increases.

    What I don't get is things like Nintendo, Sony and other such companies not having their prices increase.
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  • roger_merriman
    roger_merriman Posts: 6,165
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    If it continues Campag may reclaim the largest percentage of the component market again.

    All Campag would need to do is drop £100 off its prices (never happen) for its European market.

    Campag dropping their prices may make it near impossible for Shimano to compete given their increases.

    What I don't get is things like Nintendo, Sony and other such companies not having their prices increase.

    not sure campag ever had the dominate market share, it also only goes for road, though they did briefly try MTB's but wasn't good by all accounts.
  • Headhuunter
    Headhuunter Posts: 6,494
    A Sora brake/shifter set of 2 leavers is listed at £130! And that's just Sora!
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  • mountainroadie
    mountainroadie Posts: 244
    Headhuunter wrote:
    A Sora brake/shifter set of 2 leavers is listed at £130! And that's just Sora!

    yeah priced a pair ofshimano jockey wheels recently £60.00 :shock: {xtr]

    got a much better aluminium [drilled out, ceramic bearings] pair from KCMC 8)

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