All of the bike shops I've been in have a pretty wide selection of bike styles and full-on road or mountain bikes are just a small segment of the stock on the floor. However, yesterday I was taking my wife's car for an oil change and happened to spot a bicycle store I didn't know existed. Since I was 30 minutes early and almost to the car dealer, I decided to stop and check out the bike shop. I have NEVER seen such a wide variety of bikes in a shop. He had the typical road bikes, mtb's, hybrids, comfort bikes and cruisers but he also had a lot of odd-ball urban style bikes like one would see in Bicycle Times or Momentum. Lot's of brands I've never heard of making steel bikes. He even had backs with the equivalent of Bosco bars on them! Heck, he had at least 5-6 tandems in the store! The biggest surprise was rows and rows of steel framesets hanging from the ceiling. There were numerous brands there but the lion's share seemed to be Colnago. Lot's of chrome lugs hanging from that ceiling. In talking to one of the employees I found out the owner loves old steel bikes. I might have to go back when I have more time and take a better look around.
On Saturday, May 18, 2013 6:24:48 PM UTC-5, PeterG wrote: > My wife had to go out of town for the week. Bored, I decided that I would > spend the day riding my Hillborne and then visit a few local bike shops and > see what's selling out there these days. I haven't really been to many bike > shops in the last couple of years (Rivendell has been my "go-to" place for > most all my cycling needs lately). I ended up visiting three shops here in > Reno, NV. I felt like I was in a weird sort of parallel universe. All of > the stores had their racks filled with carbon race bikes with the > handlebars wayyyy below the seats. When I asked to see bikes where i could > get my handlebars at or above the seat I was told at each store that they > don't make them that way... unless I was interested in a beach cruiser type > bike (single speed). It was explained to me that people want to go fast on > road bikes, so they need to be hunched down to prevent wind drag. When I > asked about seeing steel frame bikes, all of the salesmen told me that > steel bikes haven't been made in years.. .....WOW! At the last stop I made, > a young kid that worked there (maybe 19 years old) whispered to me that > there was a local shop that did indeed sell two steel bikes, gunnars and > surly's....but he couldn't remember the name of the store. Not sure if that > is true or not, but I give the kid credit for at least trying (his boss > tried to sell me a cervelo race bike two sizes too small for $7900 for > weekend solo riding). Is Reno an anomaly or is this happening everywhere? -- 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?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
