acme always has both 26.8 and 27.4 new silver seatposts in stock (not a hundred but always one or two) somehow i feel sure we are not the only lbs that does so peace
sarahgibson acmebicyclecompanydotcom kansascitymissouri
well behaved women rarely make history _ride yr friggin bicycle_
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 10:43:58 -0700
> From: gillies@ece.ubc.ca
> Subject: Re: [CR] [BOB] Nashbar haters
>
> Well, First I never liked Perforchina Bicycle shoppe, they seemed eve
n
> more 'fad driven' than the most fad-driven shops in the 1970's and
> 1980's when I was a young cyclist. That must be the place where
> Bicycling's "Style Man" was born!
>
> And if PerforChina Bicycle Shoppe cannot get it direct from a china
> factory, they won't source it AT ALL, because they want their
> suppliers to bend over backwards for them, they want those 370%
> margins you get from China's currency manipulation, just like
> Wallymart (which by the way sued an employee brain-damaged forever by
> a car accident and stole her lifetime living-allowance settlement.)
>
> If it says Campagnolo and it comes from Perforchina Bicycle shoppe,
> it's probably grey-market goods...
>
> But the elephant in the room is EBay. You can't get a 26.8 or 27.4
> seatpost at an LBS, or at Perforchina Bicycle Shoppe, or at
> NashbarChina any more, because of Ebay. Ebay has flooded the bike
> market with used parts. It has liquidated a supply of spare parts
> larger than most metropolitan landfills, and kept a lot of stuff out
> of landfills by the way ...
>
> So when you talk about the schism between PerforChina Bicycle Shoppe /
> NashbarChina, and the LBS, you are really talking about a 3-way race
> where EBay is threatening the existence of both of these penny anty
> businesses...
>
> - Don Gillies
> San Diego, CA, USA