the formula for a bike shop is building a riding club around it, so you build a loyal client base. This is where you hire young riders to run the weekend rides and sell bikes during the week. Their technopassion sells, and they're the guys who make the dumb antique comments. When I was a teenager, I thought 40 was almost dead.
the formula for a fly-fishing shop is the shopping district in a tourist town, and devote at least 70% of the floor space to women's accessories. I could be a heck of a businessman if I didn't have so many ex-wives. On Friday, June 28, 2013 9:50:49 PM UTC-5, Peter M wrote: > > My lbs is awful, all of them. I am my own lbs, no shame in my game. > On Jun 28, 2013 10:38 PM, "Michael" <john1...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> I use the LBS I have always used. They seem to be able to take care of >>> everything I have needed. They have always respected my Bleriot and never >>> tried to sway me from steel bikes. In fact they even tried to help me know >>> what size bike to look for in steel since they knew I was into that, but >>> they don't sell them really. >>> >> >> They have commented on how nice the Bleriot is and pretty it is. One guy >> said "Isn't that a Rivendell bike?" >> They were nice after my accident and went over it 3 times to make sure >> everything was ok - and it was. >> They rebuilt my rear wheel when I got in an accident. They actually have >> a Velocity distributor. Though they were surprised when I told them it was >> a 650b wheel. >> >> Some funny comments when at my LBS with my Bleriot I have heard: >> "Oldie but a goodie", or something like that from a customer, and, >> "Those are some FAT tires!" when an ultracyclist customer sat on the >> Bleriot and looked down at the Nifty Swiftys I had on there. >> "Obsolete technology", about my Paul centerpulls. >> >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to >> rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> >> . >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
