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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. |
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Yet Another Bike Shop
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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Yet Another Bike Shop
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... |
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Yet Another Bike Shop
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. |
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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. |
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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…. |
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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. |
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