I loved painting that mural on the wall at the bike shop. I got to sit up there and listen to some Ca-Raaaazy stuff.
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I loved painting that mural on the wall at the bike shop. I got to sit up there and listen to some Ca-Raaaazy stuff.
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Thar ain’t nuthin’ worse than a cheap bike.
Okay, maybe a cheap mountain bike is worse than a cheap generic bike. You trust your life to mountain bikes, as “a fall” can mean “…from 15 feet in the air”.
Which is why I don’t currently have a working bike. Saving up for the grail.
My wife bought me a cheap mountain bike. I think it must have been the Kamikaze model, all I got was one crash out of it.
Yep. It’s the same all around. I finally got a couple of good bikes, but my wife – who doesn’t ride like a crazy person- has a TarMart special. She says she likes it, but it feels wonky to me. The kids have good bikes, but they outgrow them, and you feel crazy buying another set of ‘spensive bikes.
See if Kickstand Cyclery has any Grow Bikes left.
I work for a company that sells gear and apparel for outdoor outfitting. I get this all the time: “But I can get almost the same thing at X for way less.” Then they go to X, get the cheaper, poor quality version of whatever it was and end up coming back to us anyway. It’s the same with everything. If you don’t want it to break, but quality gear!
My father sold guitars. He used to tell a story I liked. It had this general gist: Lady comes in to buy guitar. Freaks out about prices. Says she ‘just wants to get a guitar that her grandson can learn on’. Asks why the guitars in my father’s store were so much more expensive than the ones at Sears. My father explains that he sells guitars and Sears sells toys disguised as guitars (My terms, to make the story shorter) He explains that her grandson can’t ‘learn’ on a toy guitar, then ‘move up’ to a real guitar. Woman leaves. After Christmas, woman comes in with junker Sears guitar. She wants to get it ‘fixed’ and re-strung. Turns out, you can’t ‘fix’ a toy guitar with the neck twisted out of shape, and there’s no reason to re-string it because the neck isn’t strong enough to tune the thing with real strings.
You tell that story to people that run bike shops/ outdoor shops/ etc., and they nod and say, “Yep. Seen it.”
That happened to me too, but then we ended up buying proper bikes for the whole family (all six of us). Made good friends with the shop owners and got pretty good discounts anyway.
By the way, do you have any recommendations for a good fold-up mountain bike? I’m Australian, but go travelling fairly often. I just got back from a round-the-world backpacking trip, and in so many places, I just though. “It would be so awesome to have my bike here”.
I’ve only seen two folding bikes in my life, to be honest. The first one belong to some Swiss friends to whom it was a perfectly normal sort of thing. I was an American kid who thought the whole idea was too cool for school. The latest one wasn’t that long ago, but it wasn’t the sort of thing I’d want for an extended trip.
Anyone reading got an inside line on folding bikes? Let’s hear it!
This reminds me of someone I know but I’m not going to say who because I’m married to her and would like to stay in her good graces.. if you know what I mean…
My comment was to the comic strip, not the comic artist… but taken in that context, I nearly wet myself laughing after reading Greg’s comment then mine… 😀