Originally Posted by Psimet2001

Many dealers are getting up to 40% increases on wholesale prices. This will be passed along. Also most of the industry forums are showing that a lot of IBD are getting squeezed to death.... example: you place an order with the OEM in early booking. Say you take 200 bikes. You get the freight discount because you are over the "6" bikes they require for free freight. Then they don't have product so they ship bikes as they get them. They may only have 4 of the bikes they ordered show up so they ship them. Then they hit the dealer with the freight charge for each bike because they were "under the min" for the freight allowance. Freight is now coming down at $60/bike for most. Almost all dealers are in agreement that they will be adding a "destination/assembly" fee on to bike sales to pick up this extra cost.

Only going to get more fun.