Originally Posted by
kingston
Like I said, it would basically be a donation..... everything else he sells is nearly double what I would normally pay. I recently bought a nitto dirt-drop stem from Outside Outfitters for $37. Riv wants $68 for the same exact stem. Just about everything they sell is like that. It's a bummer they can't make money selling cool retro bikes, but that's the way markets work. Life is hard.
Yep, it's too bad the little brick and mortars paying local people have to compete with warehouses on the internet.
That's why my LBS gets my foot in the door for cables, ends, ferrules, bottom bracket parts, h-bars and more even though I could buy them cheaper on the net.
It's a conscious choice some of us make so we can continue to have that resource.