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The bike industry is screwing over shops and customers. With new standards
comes new demand. Shops will struggle to sell inventory that meets old
standards. Would you buy a brand new 5″ travel 26″ trail bike today?
Furthermore, it will be costly to stock such a wide variety of products that
are only used on a small portion of the entire bicycle market. Finally, bikes
are fucking expensive! What average mtb consumer can afford to spend $6k every
couple of years on a bike? Especially when the value of their old bike is very
little because it's not wanted… Why reinvent the wheel for a category of plus
sized bikes that only a small handful of people who'll actually buy?
April 22, 2015, 10:12 a.m. - Alex Cheney
#!markdown The bike industry is screwing over shops and customers. With new standards comes new demand. Shops will struggle to sell inventory that meets old standards. Would you buy a brand new 5″ travel 26″ trail bike today? Furthermore, it will be costly to stock such a wide variety of products that are only used on a small portion of the entire bicycle market. Finally, bikes are fucking expensive! What average mtb consumer can afford to spend $6k every couple of years on a bike? Especially when the value of their old bike is very little because it's not wanted… Why reinvent the wheel for a category of plus sized bikes that only a small handful of people who'll actually buy?