Salsa ran out of their 2020 allotment in mid April, purportedly. We ordered Surlys in August, and werent given the option of sizes/models, just paid for a certain number of bikes, with a delivery timeframe is "October-February." All Surly completes have been pre-allotted to bike shops through next summer, and aren't being added to distributors websites for B2B (business to business) purchases. We were unable to source 26x2" tubes for 6 weeks, because production was so backed up in China/Taiwan
I imagine Rivs long distance planning and good relationship with their manufacturers keeps their production times more consistent, but everyone is feeling the production times slow down. Here is a New York Times article about it: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/18/nyregion/bike-shortage-coronavirus.html On Friday, November 13, 2020 at 7:26:54 PM UTC-6 Jim M. wrote: > Anyone else notice that bikes are mostly out of stock at RBW? I'm not sure > if that's a good thing (they're successfully selling everything) or bad > thing (they're not keeping up with demand. > > jim m > walnut creek > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/1bbebfd1-40f4-41ea-b7ea-685d36ed7c3dn%40googlegroups.com.
