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Originally Posted by ikeus685
or, is this some crazy supply-demand scenero. I really have a hard time understanding this wide spread depletion of inventories without replacement coming thru the supply chain..
Anyone please help shine some light to this.  |
It is a crazy supply-demand scenario thanks to stimulus checks. Last year, China shut down everything for a few months thanks to their virus. Then, came the stimulus checks. which wiped out the supply of bikes already here. Eventually, production resumed and bikes became available. However, even without Chinese factories shutting down (strange how they never got a 2nd, 3rd, or more wave), once stimulus checks started getting sent out, more and more bikes were getting bought up.
You also have to realize many factories manufacture in batches. It's not like, say GM, who have multiple factories all over, and can simultaneously produce different model cars. Motorcycles are made in batches. Even the big companies, like Zongshen, from what I understand, don't have assembly lines for all their models to be produced simultaneously. They probably do have the ability to make multiple models, but not all their bikes at once.