Originally Posted by nycbikes
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Your problem is we identified the potential product liability lawsuit in the bike ridden in by the delivery guy, but failed to point it out to one so knowing as you?
Your point doesn't seem to be that we f'ed up your cog, but that we failed to tell you your hub was f'ed up. And I'm sure if we told you that you had a screwed up hub you wouldn't have come on the forum the next day to say that we had tried to tell you your hub was f'ed up in order to sell you one of our crappy asian ones. That's the joy of running a bike shop. As for pedaling asian sh#t, you racist a*s. I suppose all your components are american made for purity? Oh that's right, you couldn't build a bike with all american parts, and american manufacturers don't care to make parts (at least ones that most americans can afford).
Thanks to all who came out to our warehouse sale, we had a lot of fun, and it was a pleasure to meet more people. For those who wish to challenge, or question, or give us a try beyond the occasional reverb of this forum my email is
will@nycbikes.com. I get a bit of email, but I try to respond to all in time. For those who wish to ask questions about how to convert to ss or fg, or who wonder what we do, I'd love to hear from you. I did something as objectionable as design a frame and have it built, rather than branding an asian manufacturers design. If i could get it built here I would, but like most of the large brands I had my design built at a price american consumers would bear.
There's nothing wrong with trying to build a bike on the down low, pulling parts from here and there, getting a bike you can afford to build, and afford to lose to that NYC thief that elsewheres can't imagine. That's how I started building bikes, that's behind my parts sourcing, and that's what makes something like this warehouse sale as fun for me as it was for those who came by this weekend. There is something questionable, however, about imagining it is your right, and complaining that someone isn't handing it to you.
And Evan Dando deserves more than you as a tribute.
so the product liability lawsuit required you to say "we can't turn **** into gold" about the guy's bike and generally be rude? And it also required high pressure sales techniques, which you guys are notorious for, on the headset? As for asian parts, how does knocking quality of the cheap **** you peddle make me a racist? that's quite a stretch and pretty offensive, especially considering my girlfriend is asian. my complaint, if you read correctly, is that you're selling cheap **** for premium prices. $800 for your city fixed? wtf? any one of many off the shelf track bikes have far higher quality for $200 to $300 less. Anyone can tell you a stock pista will run circles around that bike and comes with much better parts. same with a base iro mark v or angus. and to actually get either of those bikes built up with nice stuff you're still looking at $100 less. same goes for a pake, base spicer, rush hour, etc. hell, the bike i'm building now will top out only a 100 or two more with hand-built deep v's on formulas, sugino 75 crank, zen messenger ring, deda pista drops, selle italia flite, etc, etc. and fyi, i don't think anything is my "right," i've been riding my old pos ross for over a year, first as a ten speed, then as a low budget ss/fix conversion and saved my ass off to buy my new bike.
And yes, my point IS that no one told me my hub was stripped. Without brakes, i would have been ****ing dead or seriously injured. I missed a sliding into a car by about 3 feet and only because i happen to run a brake. this isn't some "oops i forgot to oil your chain" kind of silly thing, the drive train of a fixed gear bike is ****ing life and death and your guys' incompetence could have cost me mine if i wasn't running a brake. i think that's a pretty valid complaint.
anyway, as for your high and mighty bike on the low ****, i came in with my ten speed months ago wanting to convert it and "pull parts from here and there" and your guys told me that "as a shop, we have decided not to deal with old bikes anymore. its just too much hassle." so yeah, you're really keepin' it real man...
p.s. if you want to attack every guy that talks **** about your shop, you're gonna be pretty busy. type your name in the search field when you have the time, you'll see...