There are 3 things stopping me…
- Selling my old group Ultegra Di2 8070 may be a pain?
- Not sure if Sram front derailleurs are as finicky as some claim
- General fear of actual change
This made me LOL
No more minimum pricing (temporarily) on SRAM stuff, so dealers are free to set pricing AFAIK.
More broadly it makes sense to me given probably surplus of inventory, possible launch of new AXS stuff, and rival axs being very ~value engineered~, possibly even being seen as a sort of loss leader to get people into the ecosystem.
Have you spent time on the rival axs hoods? Definitely a diff shape than force/red.
I switched my gravel bike from GRX Di2 to Force Wide AXS. zero issues with the front shift. I also have Force AXS on my road bike. It dropped the chain a couple times on the down shift, I made a tiny tweak to the rotation of the front derailleur and all has been good. It’s picky, but once it’s there, it’s good.
Man that Kickr Bike sale is calling my name. Was ready the buy a Climb for the winter to go with my current Kickr, but I’m really tempted by the bike. No more hassle of swapping bikes on the trainer, less west and tear in the drivetrain. Just seems excessive if I have a Kickr and 2 bikes I can throw on.
Have Force on my gravel bike…I’ve seen those for $245/each when MSRP is $350 I think. Still a serious bargain!
@Cory.Rood Good to know! How long ago did you make the switch? Any issues selling the Shimano parts?
its making it hard not to buy stuff
I made the switch back at the end of August. I sold the GRX stuff(except the crankset) within a few days. That was GRX though, so there was no new shiny 12 speed to deal with. As long as your price it right, it’ll move. Although I’d need a compelling reason to move from UDi2 to Rival AXS.
I don’t think you will regret the KICKR Bike purchase. I was in the same boat as you but have found the KICKR Bike just that much better than my Road bike/TacxNeo/MP1 set up.
I would spend 4k on a KICKR Bike, but at the discounted V1 prices a great investment if you are going to get a lot of use out of it.
) there are sales everywhere. This is from Competitive Cyclist…
Unlikely they are crashing now.
This OT info probably belongs more in that other topic discussing the rising bike/part prices we saw during the pandemic. This is probably an early sign of the inevitable correction from the odd state of the last couple of years.
This is potentially just the first of many companies getting “caught up” with things to the point that they may have notable excess (as a result of prior projections and purchases authorized months or even a year+ ago), coupled with a world economic picture of high inflation, raising interest rates and the rest that goes long with that… resulting in tighter wallets and purses over the last several months.
think prices will drop further?
I don’t have a crystal ball that I even trust for my own choices, not to mention pointing others in any meaningful direction 
yolo right
looks at pricing up here in Canada and sheds a tear of sadness
Earlier this year Sram’s CEO said they have doubled manufacturing capacity and they have more product than ever but they couldn’t get it to consumers. Looks like it finally got here and demand fell completely.
I am going to guess cassettes and cranks are excluded SKUs. Not a singe one to be found on discount 
I’m really hoping this doesn’t make its way across the border… I’ll be too tempted.