Road tyre prices - what happened

[Dirkitech]

Only stumbled on this gem of a thread now, its quite entertaining.

 

Its a well known fact that cycling related stuff is stupidly overpriced and that most distributors will take advantage of currency fluctuations to raise their prices rather substantially. When said currency returns to a more normal rate then the price doesnt follow it back down. 

On the next currency fluctuation the prices climb yet again.

Isn't this true for most things in south africa? Especially groceries?

I buy the same certain grocery items like cereal, but every few months it raises by 50c, a rand, another rand, while my salary remains the same for the entire year, something is definitely not right!

[Spinnekop]

I’m calling bs on gp4000s II at R450 unless this was a cwcycles special on sanded off serial number tyres. The normal price for those tyres is R900ea and they are a high performance light weight tyre.

There are cheaper options

My apologies.

You are right.  R550 per tyre.

Bought in July 2018 at CWC

 

 

Continental GP4000 S II Tyre 700x25 (W/TYRES ROAD/TRCONTI/CONTINENTAL/4000 S II/^/700X25C/^/^/^) R 550.00  2

R 1,100.00

[Spinnekop]

I’m calling bs on gp4000s II at R450 unless this was a cwcycles special on sanded off serial number tyres. The normal price for those tyres is R900ea and they are a high performance light weight tyre.

There are cheaper options

Also.

 

I don't think there are CHEAPER options.....

I get around 20km per R1 worth

Or 5c per kilometer would be a better description

With maybe 2 punctures.

[Shebeen]

both international and local prices of tyres have skyrocketed.

 

I can remember buying off CRC about 4/5 years ago when sales were on just because i knew i would need them eventually.

 

Now if you look at the RRP, all the decent UST tyres are 50-60GBP, that's R1200 each.

You can get them on sale but it doesn't get much better than local pricing.

 

that just seems like it's got to be more of a global issue.

TYRE cartel in taiwan?

 

 

the fact that GOODYEAR have returned to the bike tyre industry after 120 years and only gone for the super premium shows me that there is plenty of fat in the deal here.

the fact that Chaoyang is an option also shows that there is margin!

 

edit: i know this is about road tyres, but i've seen the same thing for MTB tyres so think it is relevant

[fabs]

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