Amazon and slow twitch classified (bought a lot of new mountain and road tires from classified - must be from hoarders who eventually realize they will never used all their tires).

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Andrew Inkpen

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Not a coach. Not a FOP Tri/swimmer/biker/runner. Barely a MOP AGer.
But I'm learning and making progress.

I just bought GP5000s on Amazon for around 30% less than my local shop.

eBay and Amazon

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ECMGN Therapy Silicon Valley:
Depression, Neurocognitive problems, Dementias (Testing and Evaluation), Trauma and PTSD, Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

1) bike tires direct - great deals when I was in the market and great service
2) bike closet - solid communication when items were backordered
3) backcountry/cc mostly for other things but solid service (gear heads 😀) overall

Besides the usual places, as an American sometimes I purchase tires from bike24.de when they don’t yet have them available in the US. For example, no US distributor was going to have the new 35mm GP5000 All-Season TR available until end of August. I purchased them from Bike24 back in July.

Wherever is the cheapest I can find what I want. I got deals from Merlin Cycles in the past, Chain Reaction Cycle too. Ebay for specific finds. My LBS if I need to pay retail.

LBS, either what they have in stock or they will order if necessary

Another vote for biketiresdirect.

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Let food be thy medicine...

Bike Tires Direct
Amazon

Hands down ebay.

Merlin UK shipped to Canada.
For GP 5000, their price - $49 Cad
My LBS price in Canada - $114 Cad

all yours plus

Excelsports (best deal on Vittorias at times)
MerlinCycles (always have the European Pro stuff first, was getting 26mm Vittoria Corsa Tubulars from them)

Same here.

bike24.com in Germany
I've been buying from them for years.
By far the best price on German tires anywhere. Continental and Schwalbe

20 euros for shipping, I normally buy 6 to 10 tires at a time.
No VAT
I have my order normally within 10 business days. Sometimes a little more or less.

They even have 650C Schwalbe tires.

anywhere is usually 30-60% cheaper than local shops...

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The entire event (IM) is like "death by 1000 cuts" and the best race is minimizing all those cuts and losing less blood than the other guy. - Dev

I usually go on Google shopping search and look for the lowest price. Usually I also manually check a few additional sites (such as amazon, bike24, bikeinn) if they don't appear on my Google search.

My local bike shop, and I have them mount them tubeless with sealant for me as well.

LBS and Amazon

biketiresdirect 90% of the time..

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T. Guertin / Spocket

Same…BTD. They generally have what I want, good prices, good service and I’m a sucker for rewards points…

Biketiresdirect
Backcountry / Steep & Cheap
Jenson
Chain Reaction Cycles

Backcountry
Bike Closet
Bike smiths via Ebay
Excel Sports
Tree Fort Bikes

The trend here is LBSs that sell via the internet, often below prices seen in my local LBS.

I tend to avoid Amazon as the prevalence of junk products and rumors of counterfeit products has exploded in recent years. Amazon has also been said to comingled product in warehouses from different vendors if it's the same product, which make it impossible to ensure your product is genuine, even if you order from a reputable "store".

Ebay