GSAstuto
Maximum Pace
- Oct 11, 2009
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I'm putting together some bulk orders for essentials and propose a group buy if anyone is interested.
Mainly:
1) Veloflex. We purchase directly from Veloflex factory and since the orders are queued by dealer / team, it's best to get as many pre-ordered in a single time. Our spot is more or less fixed and expected delivery is February. I will order 23C Tubular Carbons, 23C Corsa and 25C Corsa. For any TCC'ers who want to join, then they can get 20% discount from the standard MSRP in Japan. This works out to be roughly 8500 yen total /tire (tubular) compared to 11,000 yen (Wiggle) or more than 14,000 yen (local) pricing. Minimum order per person is 2 tires. Veloflex is considered the best all purpose event tire and is 100% handmade in Italy in the same Bergamo factory since 1981.
2) Consumables. Like Cafe Latex, tubes, etc. We have account with most distributors (and growing). If the order qty is higher then we all benefit by better discounts at the factory level.
3) Carbon stuff. I think the target items here would be bottle cages, spacers and other small parts that everyone uses a few times each year. The more I pack into a box or space in between my rim / frame shipments saves alot of money on shipping.
This offer is for TCC members only as my general contribution to the 'club' and a way to keep jamming econo.
If you are interested - then post some 'wants' in this thread, and I can formulate the orders based on that. FYI Veloflex order will be finalized by next Friday - so time is of essence there. Of course I can order periodically, but due to the general season , any orders after first week of October get pushed farther into the season and you're likely to miss the spring races. As for other parts - I generally order from factories on a monthly basis - so those could be more or less ongoing. But again - the volumes required to make this happen are generally in the 25-50 pieces range per order. So, I wont be doing a 'Group Buy' for say 5 bottle cages - it needs to be at least 50.
Mainly:
1) Veloflex. We purchase directly from Veloflex factory and since the orders are queued by dealer / team, it's best to get as many pre-ordered in a single time. Our spot is more or less fixed and expected delivery is February. I will order 23C Tubular Carbons, 23C Corsa and 25C Corsa. For any TCC'ers who want to join, then they can get 20% discount from the standard MSRP in Japan. This works out to be roughly 8500 yen total /tire (tubular) compared to 11,000 yen (Wiggle) or more than 14,000 yen (local) pricing. Minimum order per person is 2 tires. Veloflex is considered the best all purpose event tire and is 100% handmade in Italy in the same Bergamo factory since 1981.
2) Consumables. Like Cafe Latex, tubes, etc. We have account with most distributors (and growing). If the order qty is higher then we all benefit by better discounts at the factory level.
3) Carbon stuff. I think the target items here would be bottle cages, spacers and other small parts that everyone uses a few times each year. The more I pack into a box or space in between my rim / frame shipments saves alot of money on shipping.
This offer is for TCC members only as my general contribution to the 'club' and a way to keep jamming econo.
If you are interested - then post some 'wants' in this thread, and I can formulate the orders based on that. FYI Veloflex order will be finalized by next Friday - so time is of essence there. Of course I can order periodically, but due to the general season , any orders after first week of October get pushed farther into the season and you're likely to miss the spring races. As for other parts - I generally order from factories on a monthly basis - so those could be more or less ongoing. But again - the volumes required to make this happen are generally in the 25-50 pieces range per order. So, I wont be doing a 'Group Buy' for say 5 bottle cages - it needs to be at least 50.