Originally Posted by scott967

But what has always bothered me is that I can go to a running store, and they have like 50 different shoes, and there is always someone with some good knowledge of them, plus typically they will have some sort of fit clinic now and then for more advanced help such as orthodics. Now granted for LBS the bike is much more important than the shoe, but I've never seen more than a couple shoe styles and not much help on selection. I'm guessing the mark up on things like shoes is pretty good so I don't understand why they don't push them more. I suppose they argue they don't turn the inventory enough to justify it, but it could be lack of marketing is why the inventory sits there. Probably the same thing for saddles. I hear about "test saddles" but have never seen an LBS market that.

scott s.
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