Originally Posted by
bikingtotown
They won't let you leave the parking lot on test ride? that would be hard to tell much.. isn't there some similar older bike they would let you take just get the feel of it? Bike shops around here talk ppl into taking the bikes out.
Bikingtown, this is what I meant by can't ride it. I don't know honestly I did not ask I just assumed that if you need to test something they won't let you drive off with it to an ideal location. There is a very large (huge) parking lot in the complex we could certainly take a spin around at least 1/4 mile to get around the whole shopping center but the streets are too busy I'm not going out there.
What would you do? I don't know what is the standard expectation a consumer has to test ride or what is the general rule of bike shops?
To be fair on our first trip we were just starting to get info and not interested in riding anything yet so it didn't come up.