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Yes because production costs are the only driver of retail price
Knew you'd get there in the end Bob
They're having an online sale
http://shop.maxxis.co.uk/products.aspx?featuredsection=d#resultspage,1|resultsperpage,10000|
I still prefer to pick up second hand tyres others have ridden a few times before deeming them 'crap' or 'not getting on with them'.
Three bikes in our household are wearing a few ride old, £30 or less a pair tyres. I even have one generously given free pair.... I just permanently keep an eye out for a 'good' tyre, rather than a specific model.
I make my own tyres from discarded condoms and Play-Doh. They work every bit as well as the life-styling, so-called premium brands, but cost next to nothing to produce, I can't believe anyone spends money on mountain bike components, it's turning into a billionaire's playground.
In next week's instalment, I tell you how to make your own extra-wide rims from a discarded tumble-drier drum and ask the question, do you really need to buy a chain when you can find paper clips lying around the office doing nowt.
Reading page 1 of this thread and I was thinking Gwurk has to be trolling Mike, why is he so full of hate, when the other comment appeared telling Mike to stay down under Id assumed Gwurk had a second account and was trolling from this too! Staying with page 1, IMO Maxxis are pricey, buy Schwalbe...
Take a look around at the next race or trail centre you go to and tell me the about the demographic. I’ll bet you £10 it is predominately affluent, white, middle class males.
If you only look at trail centres and races you'll only see what you want to see, I see plenty of kids in my local town centre riding around on MTB's trying to bunny hop and jump stairs, equally when I go to the nearest spot which you can ride too, I see lots of kids on cheap bikes making kickers from mud and having a whale of a time. This is how I and maybe many others on here got into biking.
My opinion for why at trail centres and races you see more white middle class people is because of vehicle ownership and disposable income, smaller cheaper cars dont carry bikes well and Id guess most non middle class parents may be too busy to take their children to an overpriced car park and coffee shop whilst their kids disappears for several hours each weekend.
oikeith » Id assumed Gwurk had a second account and was trolling from this too!
He's had way more than one account over the years. Ban hammered a few times from memory.
oikeith - MemberId assumed Gwurk had a second account
He's not that subtle 
STW Forum member outraged by high-end niche products costing money... shocker.
It costs to fill up a T5/6.
Well wouldya look at that. They musta seen my thread 
http://singletrackworld.com/2018/01/maxxis-slashes-tyres-the-price-that-is
@DezB:
haha. Great!
Interesting to read this thread - and now the outcome
http://singletrackworld.com/2018/01/maxxis-slashes-tyres-the-price-that-is
In this case with, with the Maxxis 'DUBAI-pricing': yes, Maxxis went way too far. Production cost of a Maxxis tyre maybe £10 ?
If they sell them now for £60 : fair enough!
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Hopefully this is the start of the end of demand driven pricing. Most stuff,especially hobbies and leisure,seems to have a price point not set by production and distribution but by demand and media driven trends.
In other words prices are what they can be and not what it actually costs.
@crasher50:
what helps us right now: fierce competition in the bike tyre market.
The crazy pricing attracted new (and good) players.
Same happens right now with forks. The new SF18 Auron and new Durolux put a lot of pressure onto Fox...
Or drive train: look at the 2018 YT Jeffsy - they opted for 1x11 e*thirteen 9-46 and not for SRAM 1x12. (but at the same time: lots of media crap going on with YT ...)
The YT Jeffsy 2018 is 300 bucks cheaper than the 2017 version!
Too much "DUBAI" attracted new players.
Competition kicks in.
Great for us!
crasher, this is a market economy. If Maxxis is reducing its prices, it is because of its reading of the market (which includes their production costs and manufacturing capacity and their perception of where their competitors will be).
For me, £60 a tyre still seems too much, but maybe if I needed plus sized tyres I would have to bite the bullet.
Makes perfect sense on the Skimming idea, recoup some machining costs, if the product is selling at the higher price it will certainly sell at a lower one. Make something back for the next production run and if it doesn't take off then you have at least got something back on the production costs.
The other way with tyres is make something that falls apart and needs replacing way more often or has paper sidewalls.
@greyspoke:
Skimming: nice! Didn't know this expression.
"Checking what people are willing to pay..."
For me, £60 a tyre still seems too much
I'am not a downhill racer. Same as you: never paid £60 for a (trail bike) tyre.
Additional: love the softer, grippy tyres. Means I need more than one set a year...
Same as Hope have done then?
For me, £60 a tyre still seems too much
And SRAM and Shimano - they are a bit more subtle: Introduce new technology in the top of the range (XTR XO or whatever SRAM call stuff these days) and then trickle it down to the level most people purchase at (XT etc.). (Of course, some of it is just plain expensive to do and so stays for the top end only.)
Same happens right now with forks. The new SF18 Auron and new Durolux put a lot of pressure onto Fox...
I doubt a company who's forks seem, at best, to have elicited a 'meh' from the MTB community have much to do with Fox pricing. The rise of X-Fusion and return of Manitou alongside new-ish, smaller premium brands are far more liekly. List prices for Fox forks are still 'premium', it just seems that more grey-market examples have made their way to consumers recently.
Skimming seems a very likely explanation, especially for something as subjective as tyres, where people tend to find one they like and stick with it forever because it's trusted.
greyspoke - Member
Also, possibly Maxxis were "skimming".
They were chargint £100 in the UK for tyres that were selling for €70 in Europe. Nothing to do with production costs and everything to do with the UK distributor margin.
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