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Old April 15th 08, 06:02 PM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
Mike Jacoubowsky
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Default How to start your own small-town bicycle shop

| shops will say that insurance requires that customers wear helmets on
test
| rides, but even that's likely not the case. We require them because it's
| *our* policy.
|
| Even though all the properly performed population studies indicate that
| foam hats are ineffective for anything more than bump and scrape
| protection? Do you require gloves on test rides.


No, we don't require gloves, but we do require closed-toe shoes (assuming
we're not talking SPD-type sandals).

--Mike-- Chain Reaction Bicycles
www.ChainReactionBicycles.com


"Tom Sherman" wrote in message
...
| Mike Jacoubowsky wrote:
| [...] Some
| shops will say that insurance requires that customers wear helmets on
test
| rides, but even that's likely not the case. We require them because it's
| *our* policy.
|
| Even though all the properly performed population studies indicate that
| foam hats are ineffective for anything more than bump and scrape
| protection? Do you require gloves on test rides.
|
| Just as we explain that we don't allow customers in our repair
| area because it's *our* policy.[...]
|
| The last time I was talking to an LBS proprietor while he was fixing a
| bicycle, it led to the eventual sale of a $1K+ bicycle.
|
| --
| Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
| The weather is here, wish you were beautiful
|


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