pwebb
Senior Retro Guru
...sounds perfect to me, my 'LBS' is so far up its own backside that they will never see the proper light of day and I am constantly amazed they are still in business - and then there is Wilmslow down the road where the choice is Pinarello or the 'electric bike shop' - both full of massively overpriced junk. I have been in a few bike shops in Cheshire and Derbyshire lately and was universally appalled by all of them, since the owners were rude and ignorant ( not in a funny way) and prices were laughable. Fwiw, if anyone wants to come and peruse my workshop in Alty, I will probably bore them for hours on the topic of steel frames, but at least smile and buy them coffee, but there will be no suspension anything, no carbon fibre anything and nothing from China, other than the rather agreeable refugee folks from Hong Kong who are eking out a living in the same premises.It's definitely not us
We have nothing over £2k
Loads of bikes in the shop are dirty
We don't stock new xtr/dura-ace or di2, although there's quite a bit of pre-owned kit kicking around.
Our stock is so mental that one of our psychiatric doctor customers said it was like the inside of his head.
No epos, no marketing, no hold music, no free parking, no polo shirts, no name tags
Oh and we are closed Sundays and bank holidays
The work diary is actually paper!
It can take me a week to answer an email.
I'm incredibly opinionated, (although my colleagues arent)
We may respond to rudeness with rudeness, although it rarely gets physical.
It's more Open all hours or Black Books than Harrods or Apple iStore, that's for sure.
Tom
