Yet Another Bike Shop

Another PDX bike shop -- this one about a half-mile from my house.
http://www.oregonlive.com/business/i...uct_of_fa.html

If Portland were a dog, and LBS were fleas, the dog would die due to
blood loss.

-- Jay Beattie.

On 6/16/2013 7:35 PM, Jay Beattie wrote:
Another PDX bike shop -- this one about a half-mile from my house.
http://www.oregonlive.com/business/i...uct_of_fa.html

If Portland were a dog, and LBS were fleas, the dog would die due to
blood loss.

-- Jay Beattie.


I wondered how the heck a startup in a crowded market gets a
Bianchi dealership. Then I zoomed in. The green one's not a
Bianchi and I think that's his personal fleet on the rack,
not new bikes.

--
Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org/
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

On Jun 16, 5:41*pm, AMuzi wrote:
On 6/16/2013 7:35 PM, Jay Beattie wrote:

Another PDX bike shop -- this one about a half-mile from my house.
http://www.oregonlive.com/business/i...rlingame_bikes...

If Portland were a dog, and LBS were fleas, the dog would die due to
blood loss.

-- Jay Beattie.

I wondered how the heck a startup in a crowded market gets a
Bianchi dealership. Then I zoomed in. The green one's not a
Bianchi and I think that's his personal fleet on the rack,
not new bikes.

Yes, the guy's niche is "classic" steel frames and a cabinet full of
old and NOS stuff. Small stock so far. I stopped by to chat with the
owner and his son. They're trying to be both a specialty retro shop
and and a neighborhood shop with all the usual consumables. Their
primary line is Jamis -- all road bikes. The shop has an impressive
work area and assortment of tools. I hope they can pull it off . . .
but they're going to have to work the hell out of that niche, or
they're going to have to approach it like the shop less than a mile a
way to the east that is basically a run as a hobby from what I can
tell. http://www.ensellebikes.com/

-- Jay Beattie.

On 6/16/2013 8:35 PM, Jay Beattie wrote:
Another PDX bike shop -- this one about a half-mile from my house.
http://www.oregonlive.com/business/i...uct_of_fa.html

If Portland were a dog, and LBS were fleas, the dog would die due to
blood loss.


What they do here is a shop will get franchise rights to a brand or two
and that's what they'll sell. The shop I go to sells Specialized and
Cervello. There's another shop 1 block away selling Trek and another
not very far selling Giant. It doesn't help prices much as there's not
effectively any competition.

I prefer the old style shops I remember in the states where they would
have a few brands they specialized in but would order anything that you
want. Not sure if they exist anymore.

On 6/17/2013 5:51 AM, Duane wrote:
On 6/16/2013 8:35 PM, Jay Beattie wrote:
Another PDX bike shop -- this one about a half-mile from my house.
http://www.oregonlive.com/business/i...uct_of_fa.html


If Portland were a dog, and LBS were fleas, the dog would die due to
blood loss.


What they do here is a shop will get franchise rights to a brand or two
and that's what they'll sell. The shop I go to sells Specialized and
Cervello. There's another shop 1 block away selling Trek and another
not very far selling Giant. It doesn't help prices much as there's not
effectively any competition.

I prefer the old style shops I remember in the states where they would
have a few brands they specialized in but would order anything that you
want. Not sure if they exist anymore.

Still a few but not many. Manufacturers now want "tied" shops. Lately
the bikes I need to buy for the spousal unit and child-units aren't made
by Trek or Specialized anyway and I have to go to a shop selling the
second-tier brands like Marin, Jamis, or Redline. That's fine with me.
The tied shops are doing well selling the high-priced CF road bikes and
the other shops survive (barely) selling more functional products.

rain poured in sheets

streaming down the street

darkness

ahead, a neon sign blazed down a brick building

LBS LBS LBS flashed the sign

outside on the side walk

a tall man in tuxedo with long fangs for teeth...

On Monday, 17 June 2013 19:36:48 UTC+1, datakoll wrote:
rain poured in sheets



streaming down the street



darkness



ahead, a neon sign blazed down a brick building



LBS LBS LBS flashed the sign



outside on the side walk



a tall man in tuxedo with long fangs for teeth...

just new gurgling groops messin me about, testing postingh function./

Nah, it's no good, I've already fergotton where I grabbed the button.

On Tuesday, 18 June 2013 19:32:51 UTC+1, thirty-six wrote:
On Monday, 17 June 2013 19:36:48 UTC+1, datakoll wrote:

rain poured in sheets







streaming down the street







darkness







ahead, a neon sign blazed down a brick building







LBS LBS LBS flashed the sign







outside on the side walk







a tall man in tuxedo with long fangs for teeth...



just new gurgling groops messin me about, testing postingh function./



Nah, it's no good, I've already fergotton where I grabbed the button.

Ah, found it, is the turn over following page arrow. Stupid cnuts.

RAIN poured down the street gurgling toward the new LBS LBS sign.

Heavy rain, road surface frictionless we flowed along past 4 sea otters sitting on the curb eating shrimp take out.

Orange dots swarmed way down the street, rainproof fire flies.

A black Lincoln stretcher parking lights on parked opposite the tall tuxedo man blazing red red red under the blazing orange LBS LBS neon.

Tux held a taco ed wheel…a fiberglass rod spoked thru the hub wheel.

There was a sulfur smell from Mt Helens

Ronnie rolled up to Tux n said,
TRICK OR TREAT !
(Ron’s retarded)

Tux grumbled a deep throated laugh, “ I can use a Treat”

Ron asked: DO YOU RIDE ?

Tux, who was dry under a pouring rain, facto apparently unnoticed by Ronnie, who as I mentioned is retarded

Grumbling more deep throated laughter said,
No but my daughter does..

I jolted sideways leaving eardrums suspended as a jet engine screaming pierced out at us from the stretcher..

The thick plank LBS door ‘burst open’
A hobbling short aproned fatman holding a new fiberglass spoked wheel limped out under an umbrella

The EARPIERCING BANSHEE SCREAMING stopped…

Fatman said in a heavy German accent, ‘look, we have one in your color. Nice huh ? Jesus man, what was that noise ?

The Lincoln began SCREAMING again.

IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHIIIII IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII IIII….

NOT TO BE CONTINUED….

On 6/21/2013 8:42 PM, datakoll wrote:
RAIN poured down the street gurgling toward the new LBS LBS sign.

Heavy rain, road surface frictionless we flowed along past 4 sea otters sitting on the curb eating shrimp take out.

Orange dots swarmed way down the street, rainproof fire flies.

A black Lincoln stretcher parking lights on parked opposite the tall tuxedo man blazing red red red under the blazing orange LBS LBS neon.

Tux held a taco ed wheel…a fiberglass rod spoked thru the hub wheel.

There was a sulfur smell from Mt Helens

Ronnie rolled up to Tux n said,
TRICK OR TREAT !
(Ron’s retarded)

Tux grumbled a deep throated laugh, “ I can use a Treat”

Ron asked: DO YOU RIDE ?

Tux, who was dry under a pouring rain, facto apparently unnoticed by Ronnie, who as I mentioned is retarded

Grumbling more deep throated laughter said,
No but my daughter does..

I jolted sideways leaving eardrums suspended as a jet engine screaming pierced out at us from the stretcher..

The thick plank LBS door ‘burst open’
A hobbling short aproned fatman holding a new fiberglass spoked wheel limped out under an umbrella

The EARPIERCING BANSHEE SCREAMING stopped…

Fatman said in a heavy German accent, ‘look, we have one in your color. Nice huh ? Jesus man, what was that noise ?

The Lincoln began SCREAMING again.

IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHIIIII IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII IIII….

NOT TO BE CONTINUED….


I'm impressed. Cross between Burroughs and Tom Waits.