Originally Posted by
garysol1
To call a kick ass bike that any bike geek wants to mess around with and maybe someday own a lure is silly. The bike is there to be purchased but until that happens if any buyer wants to see what a flagship bike is all about I will gladly show it to them.
I'm saying that a shop knows its clientele, and if it knows that it's a slim chance a customer will walk through the door looking for an $8000 bike, then it's pretty stupid to put an $8000 bike on the floor. You guys think that all a shop has to do to be more successful is cater to your whims.
Sure, come in and test ride our bikes. That's what we're here for. Even better, buy one someday. But don't tell us you're not going to by a Madone 5.2 because we don't have a Cervelo S5 to compare it against. We're still trying to sell our last 2011 S3.