Specialized products dumped by Performance

Performance Bike is dumping all of their Specialized and Giant products.
http://www.cyclelicio.us/2005/08/per...giant-and.html

Callistus Valerius wrote:
Performance Bike is dumping all of their Specialized and Giant products.
http://www.cyclelicio.us/2005/08/per...giant-and.html

That's interesting, even if four months old. While I've seen Giant
bikes at the Performance store in Carrboro, NC, the only Specialized
products I've ever seen there were shoes and accessories like water
bottles and helmets. If they had Specialized bikes there, I obviously
didn't notice them on display. Maybe it was a dealer-territory thing
though--there's an LBS, The Clean Machine, that's also a Specialized
dealer and is just a couple of blocks down the street from that
Performance store.

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Performance Bike is dumping all of their Specialized and Giant
products.
http://www.cyclelicio.us/2005/08/per...giant-and.html

That's interesting, even if four months old. While I've seen Giant
bikes at the Performance store in Carrboro, NC, the only Specialized
products I've ever seen there were shoes and accessories like water
bottles and helmets. If they had Specialized bikes there, I obviously
didn't notice them on display. Maybe it was a dealer-territory thing
though--there's an LBS, The Clean Machine, that's also a Specialized
dealer and is just a couple of blocks down the street from that
Performance store.

I heard many reasons, but what I heard is that Specialized wanted their
bikes promoted in the store, as the best bikes in there, with the most floor
space, etc. I didn't really notice until recently, when the Specialized
products weren't being replaced. Too bad, I like Specialized bikes, and
some of their products, but I don't blame the stores, I blame the
Specialized marketing dept.

Specialized is ruining their road bike line with the stupid elastomer
inserts and carbon stays. There isn't a decent Allez with rack mounts
anymore.

On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 11:45:44 GMT, "Callistus Valerius"
wrote:

Performance Bike is dumping all of their Specialized and Giant products.
http://www.cyclelicio.us/2005/08/per...giant-and.html

Dumping Specialized and Giant for Pacific is like a mall tossing out
Macy's and Bloomingdale's to make way for Wal-Mart. People who want
Specialized will just go somewhere else.

This should be good news for the bike shops, though.
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Werehatrack wrote:
On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 11:45:44 GMT, "Callistus Valerius"
wrote:

Performance Bike is dumping all of their Specialized and Giant products.
http://www.cyclelicio.us/2005/08/per...giant-and.html

Dumping Specialized and Giant for Pacific is like a mall tossing out
Macy's and Bloomingdale's to make way for Wal-Mart. People who want
Specialized will just go somewhere else.

This should be good news for the bike shops, though.

Wow, I really wonder who is doing the alienating. AFAIK Performance
dropped Jamis too. Now they are going to sell Schwinn, Mongoose, and
GT? I guess things weren't bad enough already when Performance started
carrying K2.

Maybe Snook realized most people just don't buy higher end complete
bikes, I dunno.

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On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 12:22:35 +0000, Callistus Valerius wrote:

Performance Bike is dumping all of their Specialized and Giant
products.
http://www.cyclelicio.us/2005/08/per...giant-and.html

That's interesting, even if four months old. While I've seen Giant
bikes at the Performance store in Carrboro, NC, the only Specialized
products I've ever seen there were shoes and accessories like water
bottles and helmets. If they had Specialized bikes there, I obviously
didn't notice them on display. Maybe it was a dealer-territory thing
though--there's an LBS, The Clean Machine, that's also a Specialized
dealer and is just a couple of blocks down the street from that
Performance store.

I heard many reasons, but what I heard is that Specialized wanted
their
bikes promoted in the store, as the best bikes in there, with the most
floor space, etc. I didn't really notice until recently, when the
Specialized products weren't being replaced. Too bad, I like
Specialized bikes, and some of their products, but I don't blame the
stores, I blame the Specialized marketing dept.

I think Specialized prefers to be sold retail-only, and Performance is
largely a mail-order company.

It does seem that stores who sell Specialized, sell Specialized
everything, right down to the smallest parts and accessories. So we're
stuck with those lousy Specialized inner tubes, with the valve stems that
pull out! I've been through at least a dozen of these in the
last several years, again and again because nothing else was available.
This lack of choice bothers me. Any dealer who puts their customers'
needs first and "just says no" to this is OK with me.

Next step -- getting bike shops to sell something other than Pearl Izumi
clothing. PI is fine (if a bit overpriced), but some choice would be nice.

Matt O.

Quoth Matt:

PI is fine (if a bit overpriced)....

Overpriced? My $50 Quest bibs have served me better than my $100+
Castelli bibs. And have you seen how much the Assos stuff costs? Over
$200 for bibshorts?!!!

D'ohBoy

Did I just log in through a wormhole?

I can't remember seeing a Specialized product in a Performance or a
Nashbar catalog in over ten years.

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I think it just goes to show that Performance, like Walmart ("The High
Cost of Low Prices"), is trying its very best to get EVERYTHING from
mainland China. Giant (Taiwan) and Specialized (Taiwan / America)
just don't cut it, i guess.

Take a 3-time bankrupted brand name like Schwinn - with no connection
to its past - and which now sells $100 MTB's at Walmart. Hey, if they
can sell to Walmart, what does that make Performance? Walmart's Ho?
I cannot remember a time in the past where ANY BRAND carried at
Walmart or XMart was sold by a mail order bicycle retailer, period.
This really is unprecedented.

- Don Gillies
San Diego, CA