An interesting description of the store by Garth Libre. I have to say I was reminded of some high-end jewelry stores where you ask for stuff and they trot it out. That would make a very amusing concept for a bike store - complete with black velvet mats where you could place the components that the customer was thinking of buying ... and maybe some nicely dressed females wearing some bicycle jewelry to show young males the bling ...
I have to say it jogs my memory of perhaps the OPPOSITE of Sol's Stuvessant shop, which is a modern place we have here in San Diego called "bicyclewarehouse.com". They aren't kidding - the place is in a 120x120 corrugated steel warehouse! And, they have a BMX test-track IN THE MIDDLE of the store and stations of helmets, clothes, bikes, MTB, road, wheels, tires, etc. around the corners of the store. But the test track is just SO unnecessary, especially here in San Diego where it never rains and the outside daily average temperature swings only 10 degrees over the course of a year ...
- Don Gillies
San Diego, CA, USA