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I'm sure Charlie can shed some light on this, but I was looking forward to an aluminium Beargrease for this year but it costs what a carbon one did last year. And a Mukluk 3 is £1900. WTH?
http://www.charliethebikemonger.com/salsa-beargrease-2-alloy-complete-2015-5599-p.asp
There is no Salsa distributor in this country anymore, so if you can find one it'll be USA RRP plus tax plus shipping plus someones margin.
Charlie is no doubt a great shop but price isn't his USP. A pre split pivot spearfish frame is £300 more than Triton are doing a split pivot for.
Are there any European distributors?
Hibike.de do Salsa
What about Ison, are they dropping them? Not heard about that?
Parted company some time ago.
I don't get why they dropped ison if they don't actually have another distributor. It's a joke.
I also assumed that Salsa dropped Ison but having seen the Salsa prices I'm wondering if maybe it was Ison backing out of the arrangement. How many were they going to have to commit to and how many would they actually be able to shift?
Funny thing is though, Ison are reporting on their website that they're getting more Salsa stock in the beginning of December.
It was mutual. They have approached a lot of other distros but nobody seems to have taken them on yet...
GB
dunstick, thanks for the link. I was about 20 minutes from jumping on a train to go to Hibike and pick up a Horsethief!
Common sense prevails and I'm here drinking wheat beer instead. Now I know it's just up the road, it's only a matter of time though...
They seem to be trying to morph from a posher surly to be be Santa Cruz. I guess changing distributors is part of that?
I think ison got fed up of salsa changing the frame every year. The people they sold to got annoyed that they would buy a frame at one price and 6 months later anyone could buy one cheaper on line. The bike shops were struggling to sell theirs and when they did it was usually at a loss. So the bike shops stopped buying them. They preferred the surlys (same company) that seem to stick to the same design so more chance to be able to sell them and make a profit (living)
I may be wrong.
Surly and Surly are the same company?
Salsa, Surly and a lot of other brands are [url= http://qbp.com/#brands ]QBP[/url]
qbp seem to be just distributors
No. As jmc101 says, QBP are the company that owns the Salsa and Surly brands (as well as many others)
So they're run as different companies, different premesis and employees etc?
Yep. A bit like VAG I guess.
Not a bad strategy as it lets each brand play into a little niche rather than looking part of one big corporation. QBP revenue is about $200M pa. For comparison, "big, bad" Specialized is about $500 pa.
FWIW, Cannondale are part of Dorel, as are GT, Mongoose, Iron Horse, Schwinn and Charge