Who said 15% to 20% price increases for 2014

[BMXER]

Operating costs are increasing, some companies pass a percentage to the consumer while absorbing a share themselves. Bike and such (direct importers) appear to simply pass a BIG increase to us while blaming the exchange rate. Rand looses 10% value - consumers then see a 30% price increase on the shop floor.

 

Swiming seems a better sport, goggles and a speedo...

[JGR]

imagine we all took a bicycle to work - less money wasted on petrol and cars - less traffic and gasses damaging the earth

we can have online meetings via VC why not , and we will all be healthier and happier because of it

 

I know ideal world

We dont have the telecoms infastructure to support VC's and secondly imagine cycling 20kms to client ..in a suit ... in summer

[Joeboy69]

i love having the CPI fight at work, or wherever I can. Have you worked out what your personal inflation is. Take your normal basket of good. Fuel, food, clothes, electricity and even your monthly bike consumables and check what you come out on!

 

I check our fuel log last night, when we got our vehicle same time last year, we were paying around R10.94 per litre of Diesel, not its over R13.50/l. That is over 20% on one item and unfortunately a very big spend in most of our budgets!

 

The Stats SA website includes a "personal inflation calculator" that makes it easy to do this. You enter your own expenditure on a dozen or so items and then it gives you what your own CPI is. Give it a try please!!

[BBN]

I believe the new top range bikes like S-works are going to be over 100K!!!!

[EVOBIKES ONLINE STORE]

I believe the new top range bikes like S-works are going to be over 100K!!!!

 

R110k...

[olram_df]

Dollar has gained 20% on the rand in the last year.

[dev null]

I saw a Cannondale for over R120K the other day. That is like, WTF, almost superbike prices. Somewhere something not right.

[BMXER]

I saw a Cannondale for over R120K the other day. That is like, WTF, almost superbike prices. Somewhere something not right.

 

At R120K, a superbike is easy decision. I will not spend that on a mtb.

[Heel Drop]

We dont have the telecoms infastructure to support VC's and secondly imagine cycling 20kms to client ..in a suit ... in summer

cheaper to spend money on telecom infrastructure then road infrastructure - the current rate petrol increases people will have to think out the box - I don't mind cycling to work as long as there is a shower

[Dirtbreath]

Tried to use Gautrain to Pta for 2 weeks while at client's office but the bus network is so poor that I cant get to my client's office other side. Just no other option than to hoes for fuel.

[Danger Dassie]

As a thumbsuck example, imagine if just 3 out of every ten cars car pooled? Apply that to using the train/busses.

With bicycles, a decent e-bike system costs the same as a bottom range scooter.

Companies can provide flex hours and relax working conditions like on certain projects letting staff work from home.

[GrumpyOldGuy]

As a thumbsuck example, imagine if just 3 out of every ten cars car pooled? Apply that to using the train/busses.

With bicycles, a decent e-bike system costs the same as a bottom range scooter.

Companies can provide flex hours and relax working conditions like on certain projects letting staff work from home.

 

Yeah, but it will only apply to certain industries DD, if one looks at production lines at factories, engineering workshops etc they cant work flexi hours, the guys that run the lines and do the tool work all have people upstream and downstream who first start and later continue their work, it would be a logistical problem of biblical proportion to co-ordinate that kind of system.

 

I guess it could work in certain area's, perhaps as you say, the IT community, sales staff, etc where they have a slightly more flexible time system and any reduction of traffic can only be good, but, I fear its never going to be a daily reality for many unfortunately.

[GrumpyOldGuy]

cheaper to spend money on telecom infrastructure then road infrastructure - the current rate petrol increases people will have to think out the box - I don't mind cycling to work as long as there is a shower

 

Yeah, but what if you lived 50 kms from work as many do, start at 7 and finish at 5 and do manual labour daily.

Thats the reality for many, and cycling 50 kms in the freezing cold after a day laying bricks and lugging concrete up and down a building site for 9 hours is not feasible, it can work in some environments but not many unfortunately.

Edited August 8, 2013 by GrumpyOldGuy

[StevieL]

i get a fixed petrol allowance, capped.

it hasn't gone up and we have seen something like a 15% increase in petrol since jan

 

times are grim in general, my bikes for sale need that cash for other things because of this ***

 

Same problem. My allowance is fixed at R750. Has been for years. When it first started, I got nearly 2 full tanks from it. I barely get 1 now. By about the 12th of every month, I am paying out of my own pocket for fuel... Crazy times.

[krl747]

The Stats SA website includes a "personal inflation calculator" that makes it easy to do this. You enter your own expenditure on a dozen or so items and then it gives you what your own CPI is. Give it a try please!!

 

Thanks. Very interesting tool. Still think that is flawed. What are they comparing these expenses against? An average? I am comparing simply what I am paying now against what I paid last year. Comparing this to my annual increase, my disposable income is getting less and less. It would be very interesting to see who's actual disposable income is increasing year on year, hell, even staying constant would be nice.

[Joeboy69]

 

Thanks. Very interesting tool. Still think that is flawed. What are they comparing these expenses against? An average? I am comparing simply what I am paying now against what I paid last year. Comparing this to my annual increase, my disposable income is getting less and less. It would be very interesting to see who's actual disposable income is increasing year on year, hell, even staying constant would be nice.

 

What we do in the tool is to use the average price movements of the expenditure categories as used in the CPI and linking it to your individual expenditure weights which are different from the "average consumer".

 

It will off course be more accurate if your weights were more detailed and we only used the prices of items you actually bought e. g, specific cuts if beef or types of coffee.