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Old 10-22-22, 08:41 AM
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Right now, there's a strange dynamic playing out. An oversupply of bikes in the post-COVID era as manufacturers overshot their estimates, and an undersupply of parts, which has not shown much sign of recovery during that same period.

Combine that with rampant inflation, and nobody has much discretionary income anymore. Suddenly parts are now more valuable than complete bikes as people scale back.

It's no wonder you can get parts faster than your LBS. They are in the same fight as you, but typically they had a leg up with distributors in that chain. Not anymore.
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