September 12, 2020

No Shimano indefinitely

I like Shimano parts. GRX is great. XT is great. I love to sell them to you guys to build up your new bikes.

But Shimano can’t keep stuff in stock, and can’t seem to handle backorders in any coherent way. I’m spending too much time chasing around to try to get the right parts, often finding that they’re not in stock when they say they are, and then receiving odd packages of parts I ordered months ago and canceled.

So, until further notice, I will not order you Shimano parts. It sucks, I know. I would love to be able to say I know when this will change, but it’s been 6 months of nothing but problems. I can only spend so much time on it, so for now, it’s SRAM and Campy (and Microshift) only if you want a build kit.