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"More likely it’s not a big enough change from the Evo and people don’t see the value in selling their current bike for an abysmal sum and then paying Spesh rrp prices. "
Its a lovely bike. No complaints whatsoever. Even the pricing isn't terrible by the standards of the last few years.
But despite some incremental improvements (I personally am not against e-shifting), I can't say that it is any better than my 2020 bike. And arguably I have a better spec on my bike.
If I only had a [DH bike/ XC bike/ hardtail] and wanted a trail full suss; or I got burgled and needed to go shopping; it would be on my shortlist. But realistically, I don't need another trail bike. I wonder how many others would say the same?
Friend said he spoke with one of the reps, from what I understood central Europe gets all of the bikes from a single warehouse and they have acces to the asset management system they use to place orders and they can also see current inventory, total number of orders etc. Its for sure not definite but they must have a decent idea compared to the past sales. Tbh I agree its really hard time to lunch a bling new bike with a post covid excess inventory related sales
Local shop says allocations are stupid, and Spech is holding them for themselves. He's gotten 2, and had to make phone calls for the second one for a customer. 3-4 month estimated delivery even though a consumer can order online.
New Gen2 Dorado 37mm with drop dual bolt crown and special mudguard, only in Comp configuration tho. Listed directly on hayes/Manitou website and some other online stores.
The Expert and Pro models are also listed with the fender and new Top Crown. Seems nothing else changed tho
This x100. Multiple month lead times for shops ordering. 3 day delivery if you order directly off the website.......and you collect from the store who can't get you one for 4 months.
And people ask 'why are specialized hated so much'.
I think another potential advantage of low leverage rate kinematics is a reduction of effective damper hysteresis (time dependent lag for damper to build pressure) felt. I can imagine this being noticable in extreme leverage rate scenarios but not sure if it would actually be noticable in the ranges we are talking about.
I always felt that the shock on my geometron with 70mm stroke for 175mm felt better than my kenevo sl 65mm stroke for 182mm. Both on retuned ext shocks. Its most likely due to kinematics/damper tune differences but who knows, maybe it's feeling the leverage rate benefits.
This is a trend that is not unique to Specialized. If you don’t do a solid pre-sale buy in, you’re SOL when an actual customer wants to get a bike.
Why all of a sudden is it despicable that Specialized sell bikes online? I'm sure they're not the only ones...
In the UK if you buy from them, they can ship it to your door, or you can "click and collect" it from your dealer. You can however only click and collect it if it is instock at their warehouse or at the dealer itself.
If it's not in stock at the warehouse Specialized have select dealers (mostly their owned ones) can also ship it to you too. The owned retail shops also regularly move stock between them (via TNT/Fedex). So if you walk into a shop that doesn't have the bike you're going to buy, it can be shipped to that location to be prepped for you. It's a pretty good system from my experience... for the customer at least.
From the info I can see the Stumpy is in low supply at the UK warehouse (which could mean loads are sitting in shop windows) and new stock which comes from the EU warehouse is a couple of months... which means that their stock is low too. I don't believe they're flying out the doo, but it's not abysmal. Just like every other brands bikes that aren't E.
The UK shops that struggle with Spesh are generally the ones that have a massive portfolio of brands and don't order much, so why should Spesh be loyal to them when there are other shops that do better (work harder) for the brand. Again that's just standard business.
Without aiming to get the last word in on this installment of thread derailment, could I ask that we get back to tech rumours. Please
I know there's not much happening, so maybe we just don't post in this thread until something actually happens?
New Schwalbe tire in 2.6
Presumably its name is "Spear" (which is German for "Spear")
It’s been known for a while, it’s an Albert Gravity, probably mid fall release
Which one is it? Spear or Albert? Or the secret third option Albert Speer?
Same tread as the new Albert trail/gravity whatever that’s been coming on new bikes for a bit
That's an Albert gravity. Saw on in person a few days ago. Same exact thing.
Showed up today. Will likely head to a bike park on 8/30 so that's probably when I'll try it out and will post a review in a separate thread when I do (sorry not a rumor but relevant to what we had discussed). Feels very solidly built and installation looks extremely straightforward.
That's totally fine, I'm just pointing out that it could be affecting sales numbers as some people only want to purchase bikes from shops. It also means there are not as many on the sales floor for people to test ride or sit on, and with a new style of shock, many in the know will likely want to see it and feel it.
Re: that small batch steel frame first look on the other website:
The statement that the founder's priority is durability, being "less than impressed" with modern day full suspension mountain bikes nicely captions the opening photo of a bike with a Cane Creek air shock
Rumors say there are two new trek bikes in the pipeline coming soon. Any more infos here?
Heavy rumours of an updated rail with the gen 5 bosch.(carbon & alloy) (maybe release of full gen 4 rail in both carbon & alloy)
& the gen 4 rail is really good but not made in alloy sadely.
I've also heard of a session & fuel exe update, being the exe getting the bigger TQ battery that the slash+ has
Slash 25' colour ways about to be released... so i assume that.
Pretty sure when I bought mine back in 2005?
They were close to $200-300 each. Lot of carefully finished machining and anodizing. In case nobody has noticed everything has skyrocketed in price since Brandon snuck in and started printing fiat currency. MTB’s are heading to snowski level where only rich people do it.
There is nothing wrong with Specialized selling direct online. It's pretty crummy to delay dealer orders when the same bike is available online. Thats just crapping on the dealer network.
Wow, that's crazy. I thought the U.S. has been off the gold standard since Nixon in '71. Oh wait, I don't think we're supposed to get into politics here.
Nixon did, but it was dead and empty by then. Woodrow Wilson started the slide. Oshow and Brandon finished us off.
Didn’t they release an update to the Session already? Something with the idler being changed a bit to improve suspension further? What new could they introduce?
Also, what’s the point of an updated Rail when you have the e-Xe and the e-Slash?
I wanna see an e-Session, but feel it would cannibalize e-Slash’s sales - if it ever existed, i’d never buy something else from the brand and think a lit more people think like me! 😁
I think Rail waits for the new CX system (October release?), anyone know anything more about this?
new checkpoint and procaliper in 2 weeks
In the UK it might not be in stock at the warehouse, but could be at one of their concept stores or other selected dealers that can dispatch online orders.
In that case they will not allow that bike to be ordered by another dealer as its already owned by one. Specialized will (like ANY business) sell their stock on a first come first served basis. Unfortunately if you miss out it's then thats just how it is. But it is not crapping on dealers.
Depends on the size of the sales floor.
Specialized UK have a large fleet of demo bike available (on request) to their dealers. Aside form that there are plenty of demo events to try them on proper trails as most shops won't be that close to decent trails for someone "in the know" to see and feel it properly.