>>1485813>My bike is 6 years old and cost under $700, and it was pretty entry level but decent.>Looking at the same model for its current year and it's more than twice the price for marginally better components.>>1485833>Bike companies used the US-China trade war tariffs as an excuse to jack prices upFellow eurofags, have bike prices in our continent risen as much they have in the US?
I do see that prices for a given tier of bikes are quite higher than they were 10 years ago, but whether they have risen sharply precisely over the last 6 years - no idea, I haven't been paying much attention to them during this timeframe.
By the way, to my surprise, the distinction between acceptable entry level bikes and BSOs has blurred. A decade ago, there were bikes in decent local bikeshops, and BSOs in supermarkets and sketchy bikeshops, and local internet shops were not much a thing and those that did sell bikes sold actual bikes they got from local distributors. Now, I see these half-bikes half-BSOs (like, aluminium frame + shimano gears + chink tin hubs, or worse) and pure BSOs in each and every local non-specialized internet shop and several recently emerged "bikeshops".
