Carry Everything with the new Salsa Anything Cage HD

Hmm, seems like a nice clean way to carry a tube & co2 for a non-bikepacker as well.

‘Course, I imagine there’s something even lower profile & more enclosed for that, that I haven’t seen yet.

Are the holes on the same spacing as regular cage mounts? That would let you use it on more bikes, although it would of course be a bit less stable.

That is pretty cool. We are working on a new product that will blow this out of the water and change the game….hold tight for details that we will submit to Bike Rumor.

@gamechanger

My wallet is cocked and ready. I’ll be here on Bike Rumor hitting refresh….

@charliegoodvibes – you must be an economist. I agree with what you’re saying, but the cost of materials and labor is only one, arguably less significant factor in figuring out an MSRP. The most significant factors are “What do similar products sell for?” and “Will people pay it?” If you get the right answers to those questions, who cares what material costs are?

charliegoodvibes: Mold production costs. Also, risk of investment and as ABW said, market value. Seriously, I bet that mold would cost around 20K to make considering it is “impact resistant” which I’m assuming has additives/reinforcement such as fiberglass, which must use harder and more expensive steel to make. Up front cost. Then include shipping and labor and packaging and printing and don’t forget to give a little margin to the LBS (sure- Salsa will make more selling direct, but if they undercut the LBS by 20% then it would be hard to stock them).

But let’s play a numbers game. Let’s say delivered cost to a shop is $5 bucks. So if they’re making $30 off of each unit sold, they still have to sell about 650 of them just to brake even. And that’s not taking into consideration the opportunity cost of other things that could have been done with that 20K. And this is in a niche market. If it were a larger market, they would have more of a guarantee to sell more of them, and could lower the price. I’ve totally made up the numbers, but just wanted to show that there could be much more of it than the $.05 of material that went into it.

One last note: the bike industry hardly where large profits are made (relative to, say, the medical industry where you can really hide costs and up charge customers), so I’ve made the decision to give companies the benefit of the doubt when it comes to things like this…

Er… my condolences to those looking for entertaining bikerumor soundbites! I entered into essay territory…

@-s

yes, it will hold a growler.