Yeah, that OEM price delta feels painful, although it's probably an availability/supply side thing where SRAM is prioritizing OEM customers, and the market price stuff works out to to while keeping in stock ends up being what it is, and it doesn't hurt that bike MFG's can claim a large equivalent value on the included parts.
If they end up at the point where they can be part for part competitive in the aftermarket, it's likely game over going forward - as it is most of my bikes run OEM takeoff SRAM stuff where I could find it, the rest is all Shimano stuff because that made more sense.
June 26, 2020, 8:03 a.m. - Tehllama42
Yeah, that OEM price delta feels painful, although it's probably an availability/supply side thing where SRAM is prioritizing OEM customers, and the market price stuff works out to to while keeping in stock ends up being what it is, and it doesn't hurt that bike MFG's can claim a large equivalent value on the included parts. If they end up at the point where they can be part for part competitive in the aftermarket, it's likely game over going forward - as it is most of my bikes run OEM takeoff SRAM stuff where I could find it, the rest is all Shimano stuff because that made more sense.