Thus spake Just zis Guy, you know?:
> On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 19:51:47 +0100, "Paul B" <[email protected]> said in
> <[email protected]>:
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>> Caversham is served by AW Cycles but my initial visit didn't
>> impress. Like restaurants, it takes more than one meal to form
>> anything approaching an informed opinion so I won't swear an oath
>> that I'll never return.
>
> AW is actually very good. I use it frequently (it being close to
> home). It has a whole floor of road bikes, for a start.
>
> Guy
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> May contain traces of irony. Contents liable to settle after posting.
> http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk
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> 85% of helmet statistics are made up, 69% of them at CHS, Puget Sound
"This carbon riser bar is very good value at £69!"
"Great! I'll take it. I'll carry on looking round to see if there's any
other bits I need."
Goes back to till a few mins later, "Sorry it's £89, not £69."
"In that case, are you willing to give any discount?"
"No. We don't do discounts."
Not the exact words, I'm sure. Ironically, I'd just rejoined CTC online that
very morning. The reply was so emphatic, I didn't even bother mentioning it.
One advantage of a shop this big is the range of sizes (of practically
anything) they carry compared to the average LBS.
iBike in Crowthorne have a 50/50 of road to off-road & even Mountain Trax
have sold road stuff for a number of years now. My memory of Cycology
(originally a few shops away from iBike) was very much MTB only. A very
single straw poll of French bike shops from some friend's experience in
Brittany is that you are far more likely to have your road bike needs
catered for than for velo de montagne!
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Basically, I hate people who preface nearly every sentence with the word
'basically'!