Perhaps it's the shop and the staff. There are several bikes in the big
manufacturers' lines that could serve as "sensible, versatile road bikes".
On 09/14/2015 06:42 PM, Anne Paulson wrote:
Here's the next step in the story of my online friend who wants to buy
a new bike to replace the $500 step-through bike she's been riding for
an hour to two hours every day for exercise. She reports:
I went to Richardson Bike mart again, told them my needs, told them my
last bike was a Trek step in around $500 and that I was ready to
upgrade to a really good bike. I told him my frustrations with the
Trek, my habits, my goals, etc. The guy pulls out another step in that
is $649 and offered zero additional features/benefits.
I was so irritated. I said, "wow, I was willing to go as high as $2000
for something really nice, but what you're showing me is basically the
same thing." So either he wasn't listening, or doesn't think I look
like a non-beginner, or he was just trying to unload a discontinued
bike.
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(this is Anne again:) Several people here disrecommended Richardson--
now I see why!-- and recommended she look at something like a Surly
Cross-Check at Oak Cliff Bikes. So that will be her next step. I don't
know if she wasn't taken seriously because she is a woman, or if the
sales people don't understand anything but racing bikes and low-end
shopping bikes because that's all their shop carries, but it's so
frustrating that bike shops can't sell people sensible bikes even when
the people ask for sensible bikes and are willing to pay for them.
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