Peloton addresses shipping & wait times – Bike+ order delays expected to extend into 2021

Peloton is in a position most of their competitors would love to be in – they can’t keep up with demand. Wait times for the new Peloton Bike+ are currently 10-12 weeks. We recently covered how issues in the Port of Los Angeles were further contributing to delays.

Last week during Peloton’s Q1 2021 earnings call, Peloton CEO John Foley dedicated a portion of the call to addressing the delays. He noted that the Bike+ in particular had a number of factors contributing to the delay. These include the issues at the Port of Los Angeles, stronger demand for the new Bike+ than they anticipated or forecasted, warehouse shutdowns due to COVID-19, and then in some specific areas, further delays due to forest fires and hurricanes.

However, Peloton plans to take a number of steps to try to get things back under control. John Foley mentioned 4 specific steps they would be taking:

  1. Adding manufacturing capacity & increasing production. This is partially being accomplished by swapping some product lines over to make Bike+
  2. Paying for expedited shipping from their factories in Asia to the US, both by adding air freight, and using expedited service by boat.
  3. Scaling their customer support team to handle the increased call & chat volume
  4. Making sure to clearly communicate on their website expected order time by product

Those were the steps being take in the next few months & quarters. However, they made sure to highlight some other changes that have been in work over the past year+ as well, including:

  • The delivery team has grown from 900 to over 2,200 members
  • Peloton now has more than 700 delivery vans across the US
  • The number of last mile hubs or warehouses has grown to 47

As a result of this, Peloton notes that they have been able to get the lead time on the original Peloton Bike down to 4-6 weeks. They hope by the end of the year to have this back down to their goal of 1-2 weeks.

However, Peloton expects the new Bike+ to have extra long wait times & backlogs for at least another quarter or two. This means it will likely be until the Spring of 2021 before the Bike+ shipping & order delays are back to normal. They attribute this due to both the higher than expected demand, as well as it being a new product, which means it has new components. The new components require a new supply chain, and it takes additional time to be able to scale and speed up those new supply chains. At time of publishing the Bike+ delay is currently 10 weeks – over the last few weeks it has been fluctuating anywhere from 10-12 weeks.

As part of their longer term goals to add manufacturing capacity, a new Tonic factory will be brought online by the end of the year (Peloton acquired Tonic last year). Peloton President William Lynch noted during the call that the factory timeline was still on track, but it will take some time to get it operating at full capacity. The new factory will have the ability to flex production levels between different product lines as necessary to meet surges in demand.

Finally, Peloton noted that they believe that issues with the Port of Los Angeles will continue for the foreseeable future. This is due to more shipments coming in through the port in the near term (being sent by all US based companies, not just Peloton), as well as there being staffing issues at the port due to COVID-19.

One other interesting fact is that it was mentioned that Peloton has been investigating adding some US manufacturing capacity. No other details were provided, and it wasn’t specified whether it would be for entire Bikes or Treads, or instead just for manufacturing smaller components that might be used for service calls & repairs, or accessories.


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Chris Lewis is the creator & founder of Pelo Buddy. He purchased his Peloton in 2018, and uses all the different devices: Peloton Bike, Tread, Row, and Guide. He has been involved in the fitness industry for more than a decade - previously co-founding the websites Mud Run Guide & Ninja Guide. You can find him on the leaderboard at #PeloBuddy.

11 Comments

  • Shira Ariel Gabry-Kalikow says:

    the problem isn’t just that it takes a long time. I ordered my bike (not bike +) on september 29th. It was supposed to be delivered tomorrow and then i got a call at 6pm tonight saying it won’t be delivered tomorrow and the earliest can be delivered is december 21st (though this isn’t garunteed either). i’d love to see peloton address these issues and the fact that they don’t offer more tha na $250 discount when they’ve already profited from my sale.

  • Bexxinco says:

    10-12 weeks is a made up number. My latest delivery date is 17 weeks from order and that’s not even a guarantee.

  • Cheryl Brown says:

    I recommend others to go elsewhere. We are making these undesirable rich and i been payin on thi product for 3 months with interest and yet again they cancel my delivery date for the 3rd time. I am trying to contact any news outlet and my cousin at CNN to do an investigative report on this.

  • David Zullo says:

    The estimated times are not even close. My delivery was supposed to be mid November, no one showed, no one called. When I finally got someone I was told the end of February (maybe). I ordered the old bike not the latest model.

  • Shelly says:

    From my experience, the wait times are at least five months now. This is unacceptable.

  • Lara Denmark says:

    They are also not delivering fairly. People who ordered in September are still waiting, while people who ordered in November already received their bike.

  • CJ says:

    The problem is people who have paid in full and have been rescheduled several time are still waiting while others who ordered after are enjoying their bikes already.
    Understand this; We do NOT want to complain, or bash your company, we want to ride, and tell everyone how awesome are experience was. As for me (a cancer survivor) I want to start my healthy lifestyle change because right now your company is playing with my health. Enough is enough. Fix the problem. Stop jumping the line.

  • Heather Reeve says:

    I have been waiting since August for my bike. I have not even received a new delivery date yet. And I’m seeing in the Peleton groups on Facebook, people that ordered in Nov/Dec have received their bikes. Unacceptable.

  • Alison Mayer says:

    I ordered my bike at the end of November and was scheduled for delivery on 1/14/2021. I waited all day and never received a call. No delivery. I received emails and texts from Peloton confirming my delivery. I wish they would have at least contacted me to cancel. That was so frustrating. I was told after hours on hold that there is no bike so they couldn’t deliver.

  • Scooby says:

    I ordered the bike+ in mid November. Date of delivery I finally see on the website is mid April. 5 months. Not sure where the 10-12 weeks comes from. Certainly not true. I previously emailed No reply. I call, no response. Really terrible customer service. I get this is a pandemic. A little basic competent customer service and honesty would go a long way. Thinking of just canceling order going with Echelon. Thoughts?

  • Russ says:

    Same exact story. Chatted with P the night before scheduled delivery, showed as on schedule to deliver, no call from XPO night before, reached out to P the next morning, delivery day, and was told, sorry, no bike for you!! Got run around on when it would be ready. Told to call XPO and got run around there. No answers on when, where, or how it would show up. XPO, told me March 30th with original date of Jan. 19th and and order date of Dec. 4th, 2020. 4 months total time to get product. All I want, honest communication from company on when it will arrive.. Not the run around.

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