On Friday, March 8, 2019 at 12:55:18 PM UTC-5, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 3/8/2019 12:30 PM, Sir Ridesalot wrote:
On Friday, March 8, 2019 at 11:29:22 AM UTC-5, Zen Cycle wrote:
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I stick by my original assessment - he didn't have any kevlar tires, and was trying to make a sale by feeding you bull****.

Some bicycle shop employees are Masters of bull****. THere's a shop here in town that I went to in order to a seat binder bolt for the frame of my Columbus SL frame. I could not believe it when the shop mechanics told me that seat binder bolts were no longer made! I asked them what was I supposed to do then and they said buy a new bicycle with the separate seat post binder collar. Oh, to make the visit that much more enjoyable and to insure my future business, they informed me that do NOT like single speed bicycle! Needless to say I don't deal with that shop.

There are shops, and there are shops.

At one large LBS, I went in shopping for a folding bike. They had
several on the floor, but the employee didn't know how to fold any of them.

Same shop, I went in looking for a pair of classic mesh-back gloves. A
different employee asked if he could help me. They had none, and not
only did he not offer to order some, he told me disdainfully "Nobody
wears those any more."

Same shop, I had a $15 gift certificate given to me by my bike club. I
was fabricating an attachment for my Karrimor saddlebag, to allow
quickly moving it between bikes. The owner told me the only QR they had
in stock was titanium. I certainly didn't need that, but thought "What
the heck, it's free for me," and used my GC. But it turned out to be too
long, and since it was titanium it would be tough to extend the threads.
I returned it, and he said all he could do was trade it for a used steel
one. I asked "No refund?" He said "No refund."

Finally, he was interviewed for a newspaper article where he came out
strongly in favor of a mandatory helmet law.

I was quite happy when his shop went out of business. It was open less
than ten years.


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- Frank Krygowski

If that shop was that bad then I'm surprise you went to it that often. In my case that one visit to that shop I mentioned was the one and only stop there.

Cheers