Originally Posted by
WhyFi
Stock issues - I regularly buy cassettes and chains at REI, it's not unusual for them to have the best price locally, but their 11s stock has dwindled to virtually nothing in the last 12 months.
11 speed stuff has been hard to get. We couldn't get standard (non-SL) 11 speed chains for a while. But, we really stocked up early on, so there were only a couple of weeks of only having the $100 chains.