Availability of new bikes

Yeah its the same everywhere. Been looking for a half decent entry-level bike around the €1500 mark for the past few months now with no joy whatsoever. Managed to get a very basic Merida Scultura 400 on pre-order thats supposed to come in the next couple of weeks, I'm not holding my breath on that though.

I ordered a Trek Emonda in January It has finally arrived in Ireland and my LBS are building it at the minute.

That's fair enough I was told in a shop that they waiting to see what would be available but if its a new set up that properly explains it .

I'm also on the look out for a new bike. When I walk in the door of my LBS, it's usually wall to wall Bianchi Celeste. There wasn't one last weekend. They had a couple in the black colour scheme.

Same here. I'll be in the market for a new bike around Christmas but I wouldn't expect to be using it really until March/April when the weather should start to improve. I can't decide though if I should approach my lbs now about ordering one.

As a matter of interest - If I was to look to order one now what kind of amount, percentage wise, would I expect to pay as a deposit?

A friend of mine had ordered a Celeste Bianchi. He was told to expect a 6+ month wait, but after about 4 months they called to just say the order was cancelled, no bike this year

Shop local to me has a Reacto 6000 in stock. New bikes are extremely slow to come through & I wouldn’t be holding out much hope of getting one anytime soon.

I was contemplating a Canyon Grail in the new year on the cycle to work scheme, do they not have any bikes available?

Actually, anyone have any recommendations for other bikes at that sort of price point?

About the cube bikes all the group sets were blurred out on the attain range the ones that usually have 105 so not that high end they were selling for around 1.500 last time

Nice looking bike alright good bike for the price I think.

Appreciate that, thanks

I was lucky last year. Got my defy advanced 2 2020 in may just before it went mental. Cyclesuperstore are good at getting bikes in. Read somewhere its going to be like this till 2023. There are a few decent bikes out there in the 2nd hand market though.

Canyon Grail 6, preferably in green

in what sense?

(wheels are something I genuinely know very little about - the wheels on my road bike are the ones it came with, I've never even thought about changing them...)