Originally Posted by Thrush
Originally Posted by b19bal
it will cost min 800 mate, do ya need suspention though
as its all ell for looks but a better bike for the money without
Are you completely off your rocker?
Why would you pay a minimum of £800 for a bike your gonna use for a charity cycle?
Don't be daft - you can hook yourself up with a good, fully working well specced bike nowadays for less than £300 - I know cos my bro has been running a mountain bike shop (see actual SHOP Ginge
) for the past 8 years
mmm thats imteresting info there
dont wanna burst ya bubble vut a full sus bike for
300 quid is shite
think of it logically, 300 quid for a full bike, shippingm distibution and then selling in a store, remeber that cycles have a MAX profit of 30%, that means the bike costs about 70 to 100 quid to make, thats for R&D ect, mate your talking crap, you can not get a decent full sus bike for 300 quid, you can get a pretty bike for that, with cable (
) disc brakes that LOOKS the part, just like ya can make a 1100 saxo look like a real power jap style machine, shame its all bolt on bollocks and actually SHITE
now ya bro RUNS a bike shop, whats the name of the one he runs, i only ask as i was managing a cycle shop from the age of 16 and i left the game as there NO MONEY in it unless ya own a shop, but its alot of work due to being busy in the summer and bored in the winter
now due to the fact that ive prob delt wioth most cycle shops in central london as ive been working around em since the age of 13 when i first started as a saturday boy i think im slightly more than qualifed to comment on the situation, the reason for me leaving halfords was i was STUCK in the cycle section and i didnt wanna be there but due to my knowlage i couldnt move untill there was a replacement, now that would never happen due to the shite wages the company pays
now if ya would like to know the specs of all 11 of my bikes feel free, not one of them was purchased from halfords OH and not one of them has any suspention as i have found i dont need it
oh and i had one of the first 10 gt lts frames in the country when they was first released due to my then relationship with carrati, thats how much i was involved in that game, just after a while ya discover that women are more fun to ride than bikes and my sunday training turned into nursing a hang over
dont judge people based on what you see, some people are very good at some things but choose not to talk about it as it bores the pants off most people
still i would like to know the shop your brother runs, would like to now what stuff it sells and what his yearly takings are to discover if its a REAL bike shop or not
boxxer works for a REAL bike shop, but hes fooking good and knows more than me these days
