Easy fix: buy all your parts online from "other sites" or whatever your search turns up and buy older (IE: 3 year old or more) parts NOS or gently used and perhaps after a couple of years when no new gear is bought they get the idea. I was unaware that buying bike parts was a high turnover deal, anyway. Not like most buy new cranks or forks every 6 months unless they break (from legit reasons, crashes) or they are real gear heads whom MUST have the latest.....I bet with a bit of work most riders could find at least 5 years of gear that wear on a regular basis online with no issue. Just imagine what would happen if that was the case for just 2 years.
Jan. 23, 2018, 5:59 p.m. - Peter Leeds
Easy fix: buy all your parts online from "other sites" or whatever your search turns up and buy older (IE: 3 year old or more) parts NOS or gently used and perhaps after a couple of years when no new gear is bought they get the idea. I was unaware that buying bike parts was a high turnover deal, anyway. Not like most buy new cranks or forks every 6 months unless they break (from legit reasons, crashes) or they are real gear heads whom MUST have the latest.....I bet with a bit of work most riders could find at least 5 years of gear that wear on a regular basis online with no issue. Just imagine what would happen if that was the case for just 2 years.