Tires have a shelf life. I wouldn't get too many years ahead of myself. My guess is any discount would be on identical tires or perhaps a mix of sizes of the same tire. On the Riv rides I've been on, everyone has their own idea of the "best tire", with little agreement. Now, if we could just get 100 people to agree to all buy Schwalbe Marathon Supremes, we'd....probably clean out all the stock in North America.
dougP On Oct 14, 8:41 pm, benzzoy <benz...@yahoo.com> wrote: > On Oct 14, 7:22 pm, Seth Vidal <skvi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Maybe another interesting question: > > How many people buying a particular type of tire does it take before > > you hit the bulk-discount price? > > At least for the Grand Bois, Bicycle Quarterly is offering about 10% > off if one purchases 4 or more. > > Or perhaps you're thinking of a discount greater than that, like a > "group buy" where a group purchases directly from the manufacturer. > > The logistics of coordinating such an event is fairly substantial and > may outweigh the savings such an event provides. With tires, the > magic number may be around 100. I'm basing this on a remark from Jan > Heine when Kirk Pacenti was introducing the Pari-Moto. Jan postulated > that Kirk would be close to break-even (for mold cost) at 200 tires so > 100 seems like a good number* if the tire manufacturer amortizes the > startup costs over thousands of tires. > > If the number of participants is decreased to reduce the logistical > requirement, then each participant may need to buy a whole > lot...certainly more than what "normal" people would need, especially > if the tires concerned are high-mileage kinds. Even a moderate- > mileage bike nut like myself would think long and hard at 20 units of > high-performance/low-mileage Grand Bois Cypress 700x30, but I may > consider it if it's 10 units (hint!). > > Cheers, > B > > * This is, of course, a WAG. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
