Cargo Bikes

This is currently super common in the bike industry across the board with a lot of brands, from our experience it seems to be bigger brands that are doing this, largely ones who sell predominately in the EU and now have to come up with a new price for the UK. It seems the distros (or companies themselves) are coming up with a price just before shipping, based on the costs at that moment, to pass on to their stockists. I think it is because the delays on manufacturing and component shortages mean the wait time for bikes is longer than ever so the ability to estimate an RRP is harder (that's my guess anyway), particularly as Covid, WW3 and Brexit seem to keep pushing the price of moving anything anywhere up and up.

It's a bullshit position for bike shops to be in but many of the larger companies and distros have the attitude of 'well if you don't want it anymore there's loads of shops who will'. Some brands have also done things like last minute spec changes on smaller details like brake levers so the price stays the same but the quality the bike shop originally sold the customer has dropped.