Rockshox via German online stores
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blacksp20
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Yep, I ordered a Monarch Plus and a few other RS bits and pieces from them in August last year. Was painless and arrived pretty quickly. Just expect their emails to be in German and the updates on the postage process are lacking.
Other than that, can't complain. Get in there and purchase, young man.
Other than that, can't complain. Get in there and purchase, young man.
I probably should get in quick before they are forced to stop selling RS outside of the EU. I'm all for buying local if feasible but when Pikes are $1300-1400 in Oz and Bike components do them for $900 delivered it's a bit hard to go past!
you might find they take longer...
Wiggle, CRC all seem to show up just days later.
But with bike-components.de orders, its always taken ~2-3 weeks to arrive. The online DHL tracking doesnt update often either... you get a "arrived destination country" status and then no update for a week. Enough to make you paranoid!
My last order appeared on my doorstep before that "arrived destination country" status changed.
Re the Sram geo-block bs: what am i missing? I would've thought Sram needs Wiggle CRC; Bike24 et al. More than they need Sram! I can't understand why they don't call Sram's bluff and collectively tell them to go fuck themselves!
Bummer. It was processed so quickly assumed it would also be quick delivery. I should of known $850 pikes delivered within a week was too good to be true.
Selling SRAM products to all of europe and pissing off a few Australians is more profitable to CRC than not being able to sell SRAM stuff at all...
mtb101
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all my bikes are shimano that's what I know and trust, occasionally I'm asked to fix sram equipped bikes, no worries I'd say I'll pre order parts for you and jobs done.
nope can't get online anymore so its to the shops, now I've been mtbing a long time back pre-internet when you'd be seriously ripped off by shops, probably 60% higher prices than EU or USA at the time, they used to say to me, it's the aussie dollar, funny when the dollar went up the prices didn't go down.
then you have the dopey factor of shops who employ people that don't ride or don't know the product.
so anyway it's simply sram trying to hold an old world distribution network over consumers, all we can do is refuse bikes with sram and make it known to crc etc that it's not right. think they call it a monopoly.
I do like the innovation in sram products, well except their business practices.
nope can't get online anymore so its to the shops, now I've been mtbing a long time back pre-internet when you'd be seriously ripped off by shops, probably 60% higher prices than EU or USA at the time, they used to say to me, it's the aussie dollar, funny when the dollar went up the prices didn't go down.
then you have the dopey factor of shops who employ people that don't ride or don't know the product.
so anyway it's simply sram trying to hold an old world distribution network over consumers, all we can do is refuse bikes with sram and make it known to crc etc that it's not right. think they call it a monopoly.
I do like the innovation in sram products, well except their business practices.
JTmofo
XC Enthusiast
Don't worry.... Reverb issues will soon make themselves known....... :sorry:
tkdbboy
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haha! B series internals has been redesigned for 'more reliability'.
I'll check back in a few months .. weeks? :hopelessness:
JTmofo
XC Enthusiast
I was looking at Reverbs but I think I'll go with a KS Lev. Both my current bikes have KS dropzones and they've been faultless.
JTmofo
XC Enthusiast
That's the best call you'll make this year.
I normally go KS, but this bike came with a Reverb from the manufacturer. KS have been excellent.... this is my second reverb and had nothing but problems.
And even if they aren't, just had my Lev serviced by the gurus (inc new cartridge) for less than a reputable suspension shop replaced a small part in my old Reverb for.