IEatRice4Dinner said:
buying bikes at dpt stores is what puts real bike shops out of business.
oh please! that is not true... anyone that would purchase a dept store bike is
one that is just trying out the sport. Anyone that has bought one of those
dept store bikes would tell you that if they had the money to afford one of those expensive bikes they would have gotten one...
there is also a problem in the industry alluded to by one of the earlier posters.
You can't get a "good" road bike anymore thats affordable. I have a trek 7100
hybrid bike that I purchased from the LBS and I got a good deal. why can't they
have a road bike model with similar components for that?
it seems that at the bike shop there are two types of vehicles. the SUV version
i.e. hybrid or the sports car version and nothing in between.
well, I drive a saturn because I couldn't afford a Lambourgini (not that I would really want one of those anyway) and I don't want an SUV.
really, I think thats what the choices would be if the auto industry followed the bike industry... so I don't feel particularly sorry for the LBS, if I can find
an affordable "road bike" somewhere else.