Originally Posted by
matt92037
If i was one of those dealers i would dump the brand to if i carried Trek, Giant, Specialized or other big brands.
Maybe, maybe not - it depends on the type of business that they do. The online, deal-sniffin' bike nerds of BF are not the norm. If a shop is competing primarily on price point, yeah, a seller like Excel could be trouble (I got my R3D frameset from Excel), but for upscale products there are going to be people looking for upscale service. This is kind of where I was going with the Conte's thing - they're fine, but they're not a place that would come to mind if I were considering a higher-end product from a lesser known (to the masses, at least) manufacturer.