New Bike Prices
fatandwheezing
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Had almost decided on getting a Trek District when C2W comes around again in October, but it's just gone up by £150!!!! £750 now. I guess it sold really well to convince them they could get more for it, nothing seems changed from the previous year.
Now think I might have to have a total re-think......
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Now think I might have to have a total re-think......
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The relative values fo the Dollar, Euro, Yen and Sterling have changed quite a bit since last year, which will have had a big part to play in the price of new bikes.
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Yeah but some stuff, bikes, still come from Europe Focus, Dolan, Kuota (I hope), Boardman etc and they are still comparatively cheap compared to the larger non-European manufactured stuff like Giant, Specialized, Trek, Cannondale etc.
To be honest I don't know where Campag is actually made, i was just working on the basis that if the pound/Euro is weak against the Dollar and Yen the surely the pound and Euro can play nice with each other.
Meh, we'll all be on Ribbles soon, they (as well as Merlin) appear to be able to keep the price down.
A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights. As you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game
Campag prices are more competative than they were this time last year, but "Italian" bikes are mostly made in Taiwan along with everyone elses bikes, and so just as caught up in the currency situation as everyone else.
Bike sales were up quite a bit in general last year too, so no doubt some companies are cashing in on that as well, regardless of any relative currency changes.
The pound is a lot weaker against the Euro than it was 12 months ago, though not as bad as it was at the start of the year when the pound was very weak indeed, and made my ski holiday very expensive.
(Now THAT is what you call middle-class self-absorbtion
I was just really spoilt when I got my Cayo a couple of years ago, full Ultegra for a grand. Just have to face facts that my next one won't match it.
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If bikes have become pricey spare a thought for wine drinkers
Meant that my Dawes Audax bike, RRP £800, was selling in Ireland for a RRP €1500 (at the time I bought it last year). I obviously bought it in the UK and shipped it over, I only know the price as my LBS owner asked me what I paid for it and he looked up the (Irish) catalogue price.
And entry into the Euro was supposed to help Ireland be competitive, no wonder the Irish economy is steadily imploding.
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To be fair, it did keep Ireland competitive and the Euro would be a long way down any list of what caused the Irish economy to suffer worse than others from the financial mess, if it made the list at all. I dare say not being in the Euro would have hurt the Irish economy an awful lot more over the past 18 months.
Ireland's biggest problem with the Euro has always been that the UK didn't adopt it too. The UK being the biggest trading partner means means Ireland could never fully exploit the whole single-currency idea as much as other states could.
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£750 is a shocking price for the District seeing as it was first advertised for £399. Managed to get mine for £500 as delivery was nearly 6 months after I ordered. Have a test ride on one, they're great 8)
Or off road?
Although......anybody know when the new district line up is out?
I think for £750, I may as well get something a bit more practical that I'd use more frequently like a tourer kind of thing......