If you had told them about the upright bars, they would have loaded you on a lumbering city bike with 900-g tires and 3-speed SA at best. When you buy 10,000 widgets at a time, you can't afford for your customers to be individualists - what, they think they're special? You want your bike to be comfortable? Then you want a Comfort bike. We can sell you anything we have here - just what you need, right?
On Sunday, February 2, 2014 9:47:52 PM UTC-6, LeahFoy wrote: > > Well, I'm disappointed. Since Grant advertised some small bikes (like the > Saluki), I was hoping she'd opt for that. A well-made small bike is > supposed to be a treasure - G says most small bikes are designed "wacky." > (Pretty sure I have that right, but if I've misquoted, show no hesitation > to set me straight.) > > When it was my turn to bike shop, I ALMOST fell into the bike shop trap > and was *this close* to purchasing a Specialized Ruby that was somehow > going to work for my bike commuting, shopping and pulling a trailer. Carbon > was the best, I was told. A salesman said to me (wink, wink, nudge, nudge) > that he could tell I was going to be a racer someday. If you knew me, that > would throw you into fits of hysterics. > > I'm happy she has a shiny new bike, but I'm highly suspicious her best > interests were the top priority for the bike shop. Maybe I'm an anomaly, > but until Rivendell, I never got offered what was best for me. I got > offered what the bike companies said was best: high-quality plastic, low > bars, "cutting-edge" this and that. I was made to feel less important > because I desired usefulness on the bike instead of lightness and > swiftness. I kept thinking, "You know those upright bars on my old > childhood bikes? Wow, those were nice..." I'd have never admitted it to the > bike sales guys, though.... > > My son begs me to read The Berenstein Bears The Bike Lesson most nights. > The cub receives a shiny red bicycle with fenders, swept-back bars, and a > wide, sprung saddle. Warms my heart :) I hope she loves her Trek, really I > do, but you be there for her when she realizes she has a "wacky" bike for > trail-riding, Anne! Maybe, just maybe, there will be a tiny Saluki left in > Grant's collection of small bikes. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
