Bike parts prices

I did a long and boring response which even I couldn't bother re-reading pointing out the impact of various things. Bottom of the list comes profiteering. Companies like Wiggle were trading unprofitably (hence the merger with CRC) - 2018 was a golden age of zero inflation, over-supply, suppliers buying market share and so on.

Several of us here lived in the 70s and 80s where double digit inflation was normal. It wasn't all negative, because we got good pay deals sometimes, and sellers didn't always track inflation.  It's a bit more worrying this time because so much public spending is not simply recirculating in the UK as it did in  the 70s but going to foreign companies (often government owned) so public spending won't necessarily stimulate our own economy. One of the reasons my generation is better off is we had high inflation reducing our debt - once we'd got through Norm's Black Whateverday interest rates.

Yep, a neighbour has just purchased a full 105 group (rim brake) for under £500, which isn't much different to prices for 5800 pre-pandemic/Brexit