"Man with no pigs." wrote in message
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> It's old, worn and unfashionable, but it is mine.
> When I take it to a bike shop for service or parts, those shops whose
employees
> snigger at it are put on my boycott list.
> Does anyone else have these feelings to bike shops?
I am sorry that you have no pigs. That is surely cause for great concern.
As far as bikeshops go, my pet peeve is when people at a bike shop (or car
dealer, or mechanics generally for that matter) treat you as an idiot simply
because you're female. I race road bikes, and am fairly knowledgeable about
my bikes. I do my own maintenance because I don't trust anyone else to do
it. I find it extremely frustrating when I go into a bike shop to buy bits
for my bikes, having carefully researched (usually via the net) what I need,
only to be treated like an idiot because I want a such and such, and to have
to explain to some pimply teenager why I want it.
Like most people, I've found a couple of local shops (or more accurately a
couple of individual people in local shops) that know me and my bikes, and
actually offer useful advice when I ask for it, rather than patronising
****. As a result of this, these shops get pretty much all my money, which
is not negligible, as I have a fairly serious biking addiction.
Regards,
Suzy