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Do you remember at the beginning of this coronavirus pandemic we were all a little surprised at the demand for bicycles?
That demand has never let up and the supply is still a struggle. I received an email from Chain Reaction Bikes in Redwood City stating that bicycles "are the new toilet paper."
Wait, what?
"We’ve been at this for 40 years," Mike Jacobowski of Chain Reaction Bikes said. "I’ve actually been in the business for 46 years and what we’re encountering now is like nothing I’ve ever seen before."
Jacobowski said he normally has 260 Trek bicycles in stock.
"I was shocked at the inventory they didn’t have," Milligan said. "For adults there was nothing left in the stores."
She found one on Amazon, finally. Chain Reaction had one kid’s bike on hand, and it was used.
"It’s a good thing in that there is an awareness that bikes are a way to get out and do something, that people have this thing in the back of their minds for bikes," Jacobowski added.
The few bikes left here are mostly priced over $2,000.