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Buy your tires sooner than later
If you've got a favorite tire, buy up what you can afford to buy now. For a
variety of reasons, some contrived, some real, tire prices are going through the roof. I've seen some of my most-popular tires increase in wholesale cost 30% in the last two months. Everything bike-related seems to be going up (along with just about everything else in the economy other than computers and houses), but nothing so much as tires. For 2009 models (which will start to come in late June), expect to see 8-15% price increases over equivalent 2008 models. Not a shocker there; most of that relates to exchange rates and price increases from China and Japan. But it does mean that 2008 bikes won't likely to closed out cheap. In any event, tires are one of those disposable things that you'll have to buy over time, so if the opportunity exists to buy now, I'd do it. Hope this helps someone- --Mike Jacoubowsky Chain Reaction Bicycles www.ChainReaction.com Redwood City & Los Altos, CA USA |
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Buy your tires sooner than later
On May 30, 4:19*pm, "Mike Jacoubowsky"
wrote: If you've got a favorite tire, buy up what you can afford to buy now. For a variety of reasons, some contrived, some real, tire prices are going through the roof. I've seen some of my most-popular tires increase in wholesale cost 30% in the last two months. Everything bike-related seems to be going up (along with just about everything else in the economy other than computers and houses), but nothing so much as tires. For 2009 models (which will start to come in late June), expect to see 8-15% price increases over equivalent 2008 models. Not a shocker there; most of that relates to exchange rates and price increases from China and Japan. But it does mean that 2008 bikes won't likely to closed out cheap. In any event, tires are one of those disposable things that you'll have to buy over time, so if the opportunity exists to buy now, I'd do it. Hope this helps someone- --Mike Jacoubowsky Chain Reaction Bicycleswww.ChainReaction.com Redwood City & Los Altos, CA USA Wow, 30% in two months? You're right...time to stock up. Aren't bicycle tires a petroleum-based product? Guess that could have something to do with it. |
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Buy your tires sooner than later
Wow, 30% in two months? You're right...time to stock up.
Aren't bicycle tires a petroleum-based product? Guess that could have something to do with it. There isn't enough petroleum in a bike tire for the raw material cost increase to be much of a factor. On the other hand, there is apparently a shortage of the type of butyl rubber that's used in inner tubes, such that it's tripled in cost over the last year. This shortage has apparently been caused primarily by emerging markets in China (where have we heard that before?). I'm not sure that's going to be a major factor in a bicycle tire though, and it's primarily the less-expensive tires that have seen the biggest increases. Some of it could simply be manufacturers seeing an opportunity to get in price increases at a time when people won't question them so much. --Mike Jacoubowsky Chain Reaction Bicycles www.ChainReaction.com Redwood City & Los Altos, CA USA wrote in message ... On May 30, 4:19 pm, "Mike Jacoubowsky" wrote: If you've got a favorite tire, buy up what you can afford to buy now. For a variety of reasons, some contrived, some real, tire prices are going through the roof. I've seen some of my most-popular tires increase in wholesale cost 30% in the last two months. Everything bike-related seems to be going up (along with just about everything else in the economy other than computers and houses), but nothing so much as tires. For 2009 models (which will start to come in late June), expect to see 8-15% price increases over equivalent 2008 models. Not a shocker there; most of that relates to exchange rates and price increases from China and Japan. But it does mean that 2008 bikes won't likely to closed out cheap. In any event, tires are one of those disposable things that you'll have to buy over time, so if the opportunity exists to buy now, I'd do it. Hope this helps someone- --Mike Jacoubowsky Chain Reaction Bicycleswww.ChainReaction.com Redwood City & Los Altos, CA USA Wow, 30% in two months? You're right...time to stock up. Aren't bicycle tires a petroleum-based product? Guess that could have something to do with it. |
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Buy your tires sooner than later
"Mike Jacoubowsky" wrote in message news Wow, 30% in two months? You're right...time to stock up. Aren't bicycle tires a petroleum-based product? Guess that could have something to do with it. There isn't enough petroleum in a bike tire for the raw material cost increase to be much of a factor. On the other hand, there is apparently a shortage of the type of butyl rubber that's used in inner tubes, such that it's tripled in cost over the last year. This shortage has apparently been caused primarily by emerging markets in China (where have we heard that before?). I'm not sure that's going to be a major factor in a bicycle tire though, and it's primarily the less-expensive tires that have seen the biggest increases. Some of it could simply be manufacturers seeing an opportunity to get in price increases at a time when people won't question them so much. Bicycle tires seem WAY overpriced to me. Some of them cost nearly as much as a car tire but don't last nearly as many miles. Why is this [price]? |
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Buy your tires sooner than later
On May 30, 7:25*pm, "Roger Zoul" wrote:
"Mike Jacoubowsky" wrote in message news Wow, 30% in two months? *You're right...time to stock up. Aren't bicycle tires a petroleum-based product? *Guess that could have something to do with it. There isn't enough petroleum in a bike tire for the raw material cost increase to be much of a factor. On the other hand, there is apparently a shortage of the type of butyl rubber that's used in inner tubes, such that it's tripled in cost over the last year. This shortage has apparently been caused primarily by emerging markets in China (where have we heard that before?). I'm not sure that's going to be a major factor in a bicycle tire though, and it's primarily the less-expensive tires that have seen the biggest increases. Some of it could simply be manufacturers seeing an opportunity to get in price increases at a time when people won't question them so much. Bicycle tires seem WAY overpriced to me. Some of them cost nearly as much as a car tire but don't last nearly as many miles. *Why is this [price]?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Right, even your basic "non-racing" clinchers are $35-$50 per tire. There are probably some good bang-for-the-buck clinchers out there, but all the shops I have ready access to are selling 'em in that range. I usually ride mine down to thread-bared before replacing. |
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Buy your tires sooner than later
Everything that depends on pertrochemicals anywhere in it's creation or
delivery will be skyrocketing due to the skyrocketing price of crude oil. Did you really think this would only affect the cost of driving your car? Our entire civilization is dependant on a bunch of eaons-dead dinosaurs! in regards to tires, I'm set. I bought a lifetime's worth back when Nashbar reveiled an unknown stock of the discontined Hutchinson Profile-U's a few years back and sold them on clearance - $9 a tire. I have them all individually stored in ziplock bags. - - Compliments of: "Your Friendly Neighborhood Wheelman" If you want to E-mail me use: ChrisZCorner "at" webtv "dot" net My website: http://geocities.com/czcorner |
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