Originally Posted by
jonpear6
To be fair here, Amazon has now contracted with many LBS' here in Seattle (and I think the US in general) to pay for professional assembly of all complete bikes purchased online. Yeah, Amazon may be murdering a certain segment of the cycling industry, but my shop here gets paid the full rate for assembly of bikes ordered via Amazon. That's a pretty good policy for a multi-national corporation.
All that being said, seriously go to your LBS next time. They will make this process take all of 30 seconds with a pair of calipers.
I'm new to the area, so still trying to figure out what shops I can trust to figure that kind of stuff out. I tend to get frustrated with bike shops finding / measuring parts. For instance, I went to a shop last week for a BB, and the guy in the shop insisted that the BB spindle was the crank.. not part of the crank, it was the crank
Then when the BB came in, they told me there were mounting bolts inside the box for sure, and I opened the box, and there weren't any in there. That kind of stuff drives me crazy.
As far as buying from Amazon, what people forget is that it is a distributor of finished goods. Distributors have suppliers, and guess who the suppliers are? Bike shops ! Like Nashbar for instance. I guess you could argue that Nashbar isn't a bike shop, but for me, 2 of my bikes are on the older side, so invariably bike shops want to order me a part because it doesn't fit modern bikes. I could keep going, but that's probably enough of my whining lol. The techie/manufacturing side of me likes to look at specs and figure things out anyways
Just my rambling 2 cents.
Profile called today and confirmed their product shipped with the wrong directions, and that the BOA is good for a 25.4mm stem. The Dimension stem does look nice too (i'll admit nicer than the profile even lol). I tend to go with brands that I know more. Thanks for the 2 cents everyone.
Dave