Shimano Factory Shut Down in Malaysia May Cause Additional Product Delays
Bicycle Retailer reports that the Shimano facility in Malaysia that has been shut down until 28 June could lead to further product delays in the cycling industry.
The facility had been operating at 60% capacity from June 1 due to local government regulations aimed at curbing a fresh wave of COVID 19 infections. However, these guidelines have now been extended and as a result, Shimano will be shutting down the facility until the end of the month.
Shimano said, "The Malaysian government announced a total lockdown from June 01 to June 14 considering the situation of COVID-19. However it was extended until June 28. Consequently, we also have to extend our Malaysian factory shut down until June 28.”
Shimano opened its Malaysian facility in 1990 and it generally manufactures their lower-end to mid-range products there, while its high-end products, such as XTR, are manufactured in its Japanese facility.
Cycling supply chains have been disrupted following a massive demand for new bikes and parts due to the COVID-19 pandemic. These issues have been exacerbated by factory shutdowns due to national lockdowns, restricted capacity due to social distancing, a lack of availability for shipping and even the grounding of the Ever Given in the Suez Canal.
The Malaysian shutdown is another factor that could lead to further supply chain issues. Not just for those riders waiting for aftermarket Shimano parts but for bike manufacturers who wish to spec their bikes with OE products from cycling's largest component brand before releasing them for sale. Several product managers indicated to us that this shutdown is likely to cause delays in upcoming products.
We will update this article as any more information becomes available.
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Rear tyre i like is out of stock, so will basically swap onler worn out tyres on all summer until they all go bald/torn!
runs for cover>
Agree, All those smug ‘quiver killer’ owners aren’t laughing now are they!
n+1 FTW !
Where I live 60% of the entire population (70% of adults) are currently fully immunized against COVID. However, 97% of our current COVID covid cases are completely unvaccinated as well as 94% of COVID related hospitalizations (vaccines don't work as well among immunologically fragile and elderly with frailty).
Our age adjusted crude vaccine efficacy (I just calculated today) was 91%. All of the published studies from around the globe even >6 months post immunization are >90% (including public health, academia, governmental, and pharma company).
In other words these vaccines are doing an amazing job at the moment!
They're giving us a million doses of the Morderna mRNA vaccine which IS legal in the USA and for that matter is one of four currently approved in Canada and has already been administered to the tune of five MILLION plus doses to Canadians. Pfizer's vaccine is past 18 million doses administered and AstraZeneca is about 2.1 million. The Janssen vaccine was approved but hasn't been administered yet because the entire batch received has been quarantined due to questions of quality control at the manufacturing plant in the USA (whcih was caught mixing up the ingredients in vials being made for the AstraZeneca vaccine which is produced in the same facility as produces the Janssen vaccine also)
Its going to hurt his brain
It's the most used vaccine here so what's up Dude?
I've had both jabs of the AZ vaccine, and look at that, I'm still here to comment.
And this is hardly an American specific thing. Plenty of people from other countries try to twist foreign troubles into a referendum on American foreign policy, consumerism, tourism, ignorance, callousness…
It’s a little weird to criticize someone for self reflecting on how their own actions are impacting others. As those hordes of foreigners love to remind us, our actions impact everyone in the world. Are we just supposed to sit idly until the rest of the world is screaming in pain, or should we be proactive?
Since you work in public health, what are your thoughts on ivermectin or hcq used with zinc and azithromycin, and budesonide? Have you heard or listed to Dr. Zelinko, Dr. McCullough or Dr. Kory or others who have successfully treated covid patients? Why do you think these cheap and effective drugs are not being used, but expensive and ineffective remdesivir are?
What is your response to the very high number of deaths and bad reactions reported to VAERS? Compared to traditional vaccines, the covid shots are showing an high rate of deaths and bad reactions. Do you support giving them to kids who are at a near zero risk of dying from covid?
@vp27: While you're reading about your woes of sourcing a new chain or cassette, there are people in very poor countries that are having trouble getting their basic needs to survive met due to these lockdowns. BTW, I don't watch foxnews. Perhaps you should turn CNN and MSNBC off and think for yourself.
@Baoas: go look it up. Average age of death from covid in most countries is around 80 with multiple comorbidities.
You live in an alternate universe full of dim-wits and conspiracy theorists, who are dim-wits. Come and join reality, it's not that bad.
If so, you're the one not living in realty.
Novavax filed for approval in the US and the UK for its Covid-19 vaccine but doesn't expect the UK approval to come until july. The results from Its phase 3 trials (announced 4 days ago) conducted in the US and Mexico showed 89.3% efficiency which is higher than the Janssen vaccine efficiency which is being widely distributed already in the US. Canada is donating that one because our government has early order options placed for it, but no longer requires it as Pfiizer's and Moderna's deliveries alone will be sufficient for every Canadian 13 and older to recieve two doses by the end of September. Many world governments placed orders with multiple vaccine makers simultaneously last year based on phase 2 trial results. It was just a question of who would finish their stage 3 trials first and get approved for production and distribution first, and then be able to fulfill those orders first. Pfizer's june delivery rate for Canada is 2.5 million doses per week.
In Canada, when they were arguing about the blood clots and pausing AstraZeneca distribution back in April, the statistics of contracting Covid-19 (as measured against the entire population) was about 1 in 53 and of then dying from it if contracted were 1 in 46. Based on current Canadian instances of blood clots, the odds of having gotten one at all was 1 in 55,000 based on the 2.1 million doses administered. They still haven't identified what in that vaccine technology is causing the clotting reaction but the Janssen vaccine (which uses the same underlying technology as AstraZeneca) triggers it also (though that one has only done it in Women) at a similar rate based on US results.
Seriously, try challenging your current views rather than being so dismissive because it's not an approved source of yours.
Interview with Dr. Kory (ICU doc who has treated covid patients):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMeP66gdc4o
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL9TUjJVoZo&t=145s
Interview with Sucharit Bhakdi, M.D:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyPjAfNNA-U
I'm signing out on this one. Good luck to all of you.
Because Pfizer is the actual manufacturer of the drugs, their name is on the labels of the vials. They are also responsible for the distribution of the vials. Also most people are just plain stupid and have less of a problem pronouncing and spelling Pfizer than they do BioNtech given how the later's logo makes it look like its supposed to be aiontecrl.
www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/thailand-books-20-mln-doses-pfizer-biontech-covid-19-vaccines-2021-06-11
the vast majority of those 600K were over the age of the average lifespan of a typical american. meaning, a decent portion, statistically speaking, would have died in that timespan anyways. Also, 600K is 1/10th of 1% of the pop. of the US. is that enough to sacrifce you liberties(the lord know the government is really good at relinquishing newly found powers!!!!)?
Interesting interview with the guy who supposedly created mRNA vaccines:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_NNTVJzqtY
I'll break the math down for a stupid person like you...
As of yesterday... Canada's total population was just over thirty eight million. We have had 1,407,269 confirmed cases of covid. That's currently 1 in 27 by total population. And we've had 23,023 deaths out of that 1,407,269 which puts it as currently 1 in 63. The death odds have gotten better for those who've contracted it since April because of increased vaccinations to at least 1st dose stage for more people, but the odds on testing positive for it all have gotten worse as more and more people have been contracting it and spreading it around.
and don't be a c*nt, c*nt.
Same people who believed Hlary and the democrats were running a child trafficing sex ring out of the basement of a pizza parlour... you know... the one built on bedrock which had no basement at all.
Although,something that's not a conspiracy... the US intelligence community IS now looking at the origins of the pandemic as an intelligence operation, trying to determine (hopefully with more reliable information than the weapons of mass destruction Iraq supposedly had) if it was something that escaped from a research labratory in Wuhan, China. The fact that Canada expelled some chinese researchers from a lab in Alberta last year who were caught MAILING samples of Anthrax and Ebola back to china... well... evidence like that and the discovery a bunch of chinese virulogist doctors were presenting at hospitals with a mystery lung infection during the late summer of 2019... are definitely lending credence to that particular theory. Its something they were researching... safety protocols weren't followed to keep it isolated INSIDE the lab.... and well we know what happened next.
On lockdowns, yes, these have very detrimental economic effects. I for one lost my job. However, without lockdowns, including in poor countries, you're allowing a very contagious disease with a significantly higher mortality rate than for example the flue, to overwhelm your healthcare system. That's the reason lockdowns exist. The poor are the ones who are worst hit as they have generally bad access to health care. Brazil and India are two clear cut examples and the same goes for the US if you look at mortality per ethnicity and income categories. Sure, the kids live, but their parent and primary earner in the family might be dead.
I can start pulling in data, but I'm just going to finish by saying that the people who developed the vaccines are waaaaaaaaay smarter than any of us keyboard warriors on the Pinkbike forum. Here's an article from the "failing NY Times!!!" www.nytimes.com/2020/11/10/business/biontech-covid-vaccine.html. Other publications are available on these people who I consider heroes of this pandemic. That goes for AstraZeneca, Pfizer/Biontech and Moderna. The same goes for the people approving them. I for one have faith in the Canadian and European governments and experts to get it right and the numbers bear it out. If my 9 month old was allowed to get one of these vaccines, I'd line up immediately. I'm sorry you clearly don't have the same trust in your country and information you're provided.
Please, please, please have an ounce of skepticism about the covid shots, especially before giving them to your children. Children literally have a zero percent chance of dying from covid (it's like .0007 or something). So giving them a covid shot offers no benefit, but has real risks. Look up things like absolute risk, relative risk and number needed to treat. You owe your 9 mo that much at least.
Interview with Dr. Malone, inventor of mRNA vaccine technology (prior link I posted to this was deleted):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMB1dRJNHe8
I'll quit since you think I have no place in society since I don't wan to inject myself or my children with experimental mRNA technology. That says all I need to know about you.
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So according to many a brand I won’t mention, this effects any 2021 bike up to about 6k then.
There’s zero “may” or “could” about it.
This coupled with 3 port closures in China, raw material shortages and myriad other factors means the worst could be yet to come.
Finally the, " plandemic ", will achieve it's ultimate goal - keep the plebs and peons off the trails and in the factories where they belong !
That's the only logical explanation !
From: Supply chain engineer on nightly calls with Singapore and Malaysia to assess priority of medical and essential equipment being ran over bicycle parts and vacuum cleaners.
The derailleur was out of stock everywhere, I only could find an item on Aliexpress.
Don't break your Shimano parts now folks!
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If you said to me today "please can I order a large Trek Remedy" I would be telling you its July 2023 before you can have 1! 2023!
I am after a Procaliber myself to start doing some XCO events but they aren't available until August 2022.
Brake pads are getting harder to find, chains are not available until October November for 9 speed and for my 12 speed Shimano.... March, April 2022 so I've grabbed a spare drive train just to have.
Hope Technology are currently working on 15 weeks for a set of Hope brakes.
Hope this helps all you guys out with understanding stock problems if you didn't know how bad it really was.
I think exacerbate is the word here.
Maybe Canada or Mexico?
Not covid related
Either way, the Asia supply chain has been absolutely wrecked for over a year. I don't see how, from a business perspective, that can go on for much longer before the supply chain is reorganized to become more regional/local.
In these times… considering environmental impact… Asian supply chain disruption… businesses really need to reconsider the global economy, and get back to local.
However, none of this changes the fact that if the EU/US expanded its manufacturing base, both would be much better positioned to handle supply chain issues in a world where global lockdowns appear to be a part of the foreseeable future. I simply do not see a future where you can have regular global lockdowns AND the status quo of the Asian supply chain is maintained. That's not sustainable. Now, of course, the other option is for global leaders, as well as ordinary citizens, to regain the sanity.
I hope that will occur, but I grow increasingly pessimistic on that front. So, if paranoia is our chosen future, then that signals the death of the old international supply chain order whether we like it or not.
The real shift in manufacturing will be the rethinking of the lean manufacturing methodologies currently in place globally.
But, here's the thing...a ton of people disagree with me and, most importantly, a ton of people in power disagree with me and a ton of people without power support those people in power who disagree with me. It would appear, therefore, that those who disagree with me will be steering the ship for some time. And, when I look at what they're seeing, I don't see a clear path away from frequent global lockdowns being our, at least, short term, future. Just as an example, we're probably going to see "covid" (I put air quotes around this because covid has obviously mutated (several times), yet we are still consolidating all "covid" as one) spikes this fall/winter. This is almost inevitable. There is no "end" to covid, as in an "end" to SARs viruses.
If the "standard" now is lockdowns (as it is currently), will we be locking down again every flu season? The new conventional wisdom would appear to say yes. Or, at the least, we don't know. So, OK, if that's our new norm, then the skittishness over capital investments starts to make less and less sense. It strikes me that industry (and a lot of folks) right now are banking on this idea that pre-covid norms are returning. OK, but, that might be wrong.
The question is, is "conventional" coming back? Industry is banking on it coming back. That's the million dollar question to me. The problem is that we've rejected prior conventional wisdom and set a new precedent that its "prudent" to initiate global lockdowns to combat respiratory viruses. SARs, MERs, etc., are not going away (the were here pre-covid). And, quite shockingly to me, we appear poised to invest BILLIONS into gain of function research. The only way this stops is for some sort of grand consensus that we were wrong with our approach to C19. But, is that going to happen? It strikes me that we're all in and there may be no going back. We're too invested in being right.
Smart businesses will take this along with all the other excellent reasons for local manufacturing into account. The time for cheap third world labor should be coming to an end... for too many reasons.
The point is, if we still have this level of paranoia about covid and lockdown obsession now (when the risk has been incredibly mitigated) what are they going to do come flu [covid] season? As you rightly point out, are they just going to say "woops, sorry about that whole 2020 thing, this time is different, because reasons"? Quite the dilemma, the solution for which is unclear to me.
I agree. Wise companies should at least be exploring SOME domestic/regional manufacturing capacity. This is not to say close up shop in Asia and GO USA!!! However, wise companies will take a hard look at Covid and come away concerned about the future of intl trade - at least as we know it.