Denver’s bike shortage continues. If you enter many bike stores across the metro area, you’ll see a lot of empty store racks. The problem isn’t just local. It is impacting much of the country, as orders are taking months to fill.
In 2020, due to supply chain shutdowns with the Covid pandemic, supplies and bike parts started to take longer and longer to arrive at stores. That was coupled with an increase in demand for bicycles as gyms closed and people sought to exercise outdoors. The hope was that bike inventory would improve by 2021.
The Denver Channel talked to James Sharpe, owner of TriBella.
“It has changed, and it has not changed for the better.” Sharpe’s store specializes in custom bikes. For them, not getting one bike part is detrimental. “We do so many bikes over $12,000, and, oftentimes, it is one single part, one $20 part we can’t find anywhere on the planet and that holds up the sale going through,” Sharpe said.