No new parts for me!
Crank set $450.00
Front hub $200
Rear hub $200
Brakes $275 ea plus the $70 rotor
Derailleur $185
Shifter $200
thats because CRC is charging british pounds, and at the time, the US dollar sucks and the pound is strongly overvalued......so yeah, pretty much double all of those prices to see what it would cost in US dollars......
no you are mistaking. unless i mis read your post.
oh wow sick!....i just assumed since those prices were so low they were in pounds......those are actually really good prices....i hadn't realized the site converted to US prices......pretty coolno you are mistaking. unless i mis read your post.
you can order stuff and see US prices on the site
brakes 228
der. 130
shifter 69
crankset 289
front hub 85
rear hub 188
all prices in US dollars.
once again if i misread your post then
EDIT: and by the way the USD is making a slight comeback. living in the UK and living with a family based of a USD salary, id hope i know the exchange rate. its the lowest now then its been since i moved here more than a year ago. 1.75 USD is know 1 GBP. when i first moved here it was 2.20 to 1
Get used to it. With the relative strength of the GBP and Euro, they can buy direct from Asia then sell it to us pretty cheap.
Isn't CRC the UK version of Beyond Bikes which sucks here in the US? I could be totally wrong but I thought I heard that somewhere.
I was shocked at the price of some XTR parts I ordered recently. Seems like a 30% cost increase since Spring. Parts are so expensive I don't know how people are going to afford them anymore.
Not that I'm aware of; I'm just stating a fact, though - CRC gave me a great price, and speedy (free) shipping - I live in Maine, and I got the stuff in a week or less.
). But occasionally they're not, and it can take a week or more for an order to get processed for no apparent reason. And when this happens it's very hard to try to get them on the phone. I think they grew too quick basically, hopefully things are on the mend now.
hell, the prices in canada are insane! my buds and i stopped off at the legendary cove bike shop in BC last year and saw prices 30-50% higher than LBS prices here in California. I don't remember the specific numbers, but 66 forks were selling for ~$300-400 more than "back home" and those were the sales prices there.
Pretty much EVERYWHERE but the U.S. is more expensive (except CRC on some things I've order from them occassionally). When I lived in New Zealand everything was like 30-50% more expensive too. Thats what you get for big gov't and huge trade barriers :'(hell, the prices in canada are insane! my buds and i stopped off at the legendary cove bike shop in BC last year and saw prices 30-50% higher than LBS prices here in California. I don't remember the specific numbers, but 66 forks were selling for ~$300-400 more than "back home" and those were the sales prices there.
Weird. The XT cranks I got from CRC for CHEAP were in regular retail packaging. Again, I'm not defending them or claiming to know anything about their business practices - just stating honest facts from my experiences with them.
I just got a new Saint mech, a cassette and a chain (all Shimano) from CRC and it was all properly packaged, with instructions etc.CRC get a lot of abuse for selling stuff too cheap and putting bike shops out of business. Apparently a lot of companies won't supply CRC any more as to do so they'd lose all of their bike shop trade as the shops see no point in trying to compete anymore.
Also CRC NORMALLY is very very quick (almost always next day for me - they very cleverly built their new warehouse next door to the post sorting office
Also be aware that pretty much anything you buy from CRC will be OEM (i.e. a shimano mech will be delivered in a greasy plastic bag, not a nice shimano box, etc etc). I personally don't have a problem with this, but I have heard rumours in the past that shimano (and other manufacturers) use lesser quality materials in some aspects of their OEM components compared to the retail ones?
Certainly Hope Bulb hubs back in the day were ti freehub bodies for retail, and steel for OEM. So I was told anyway.
I love ordering from CRC. Free shipping and it shows up in like 4 days if you live on the East Coast. Most US mailorder places require me shelling out $$ for 2nd day air or waiting a week or more for stuff to arrive.
