Components - even on used market - appear so much more expensive these days?

tri-king
tri-king Posts: 180
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Pondered upgrading my current ultrega 9000 to dura ace 9100 groupset, however, none appear available from the usual shopping and retail channels: Ive found some listed on ebay for astronomical prices.
I guess this is doing to the pandemics effect on cycling's increased popularity and, to and extent, brexit? I upgraded my last bikes groupset from 6800 to 9000 in the summer of 2016 after sourcing a little used set very reasonably - that definitely doesn't look to be the case today!

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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Yup!
    _
  • sumws
    sumws Posts: 10
    1.Brexit
    2. supply and demand - bikes have become much more popular in lockdown
  • amrushton
    amrushton Posts: 1,313
    people trawling ebay for cheap high quality bike parts - who would have thought it? But with the supply of new stock limited the used or nos market is going to see a rise.
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,444
    Yeah, everything is ridiculously expensive at the moment.
  • MattFalle
    MattFalle Posts: 11,644
    merlin sent an email out today with the stuff you are after discounted.
    .
    The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
  • womack
    womack Posts: 566
    MattFalle said:

    merlin sent an email out today with the stuff you are after discounted.

    Was that the email with prices starting at £1550.00 and rising to £2300.00!!

    Think I'll use the 8 speed triple bike!

    Must admit I was looking at replacing my 11 speed cassette on the good bike but looking at the current prices I may make it last a bit longer!

  • darkhairedlord
    darkhairedlord Posts: 7,180
    I blame wiggle.
  • redvision
    redvision Posts: 2,958
    darkhairedlord said:

    I blame wiggle.

    If the rumoured takeover goes ahead then I think all of us will be blaming wiggle (if it causes prices to increase even more)
  • PMark
    PMark Posts: 160
    edited May 2021
    AliExpress are worth checking out if people want to get some bargains, there are many sites which are dedicated to reviewing the components they sell on there (like TraceVelo on youtube). Delivery seems to be about 10days to the UK.

    I am currently building up an old 90s steel bike and been looking around for components to put on it, basically going to replace everything except the frame and possibly the brakes. I ordered the new Sensah Empire Groupset, which has been getting some good reviews online (they are a Chinese company started by some ex-SRAM engineers). It is lighter than 105, but at about 1/3 the price.
  • tri-king
    tri-king Posts: 180
    redvision said:

    darkhairedlord said:

    I blame wiggle.

    If the rumoured takeover goes ahead then I think all of us will be blaming wiggle (if it causes prices to increase even more)
    Ironic that wigglecrc acquired the German online retailer bike24 in 2017 only to sell it back two years later and is now the target of a German takeover itself!
  • MattFalle
    MattFalle Posts: 11,644
    redvision said:

    darkhairedlord said:

    I blame wiggle.

    If the rumoured takeover goes ahead then I think all of us will be blaming wiggle (if it causes prices to increase even more)
    what takeover?
    .
    The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
  • MattFalle
    MattFalle Posts: 11,644
    PMark said:

    AliExpress are worth checking out if people want to get some bargains, there are many sites which are dedicated to reviewing the components they sell on there (like TraceVelo on youtube). Delivery seems to be about 10days to the UK.

    I am currently building up an old 90s steel bike and been looking around for components to put on it, basically going to replace everything except the frame and possibly the brakes. I ordered the new Sensah Empire Groupset, which has been getting some good reviews online (they are a Chinese company started by some ex-SRAM engineers). It is lighter than 105, but at about 1/3 the price.

    The latest Sensah stuff gets good reviews across the board tbh - meant to be a bit fiddly to set up the rear mech but once done its bonzer, fam.
    .
    The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
  • tri-king
    tri-king Posts: 180
    MattFalle said:

    redvision said:

    darkhairedlord said:

    I blame wiggle.

    If the rumoured takeover goes ahead then I think all of us will be blaming wiggle (if it causes prices to increase even more)
    what takeover?
    https://road.cc/content/news/german-online-retail-giant-mount-bid-wiggle-282987
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,717
    Duplicated for some reason...
    ddraver said:

    Cake Stoppers will be well aware of my opinion of Brexit but to add some context I see one of the big (non dutch-) bike shops* in The Hague has just posted that he'd closing because he just can't get stock at the moment. Neither bikes nor parts.

    The difference is that this is the new norm for us whereas post Covid the Dutch & German shops will be back to normal

    (* to be clear - an actual shop, not an online store)

    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • MattFalle
    MattFalle Posts: 11,644
    tri-king said:

    MattFalle said:

    redvision said:

    darkhairedlord said:

    I blame wiggle.

    If the rumoured takeover goes ahead then I think all of us will be blaming wiggle (if it causes prices to increase even more)
    what takeover?
    https://road.cc/content/news/german-online-retail-giant-mount-bid-wiggle-282987
    grazie!
    .
    The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Buy them on holiday (if you can ever get there), attach them to your bike when you're out there and smuggle them back.
    _
  • navrig2
    navrig2 Posts: 1,851
    Be patient. In 2022 there will be a glut of dusty, rarely used bikes and clothing.

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