i never shop at walmart and prefer to toss my money around at small businesses as a matter of course. I know the cheesmonger that sells me cheese, the farmers i buy produce from, the milkmaid i buy dairy products at.

grant's enterprise leaves an unsavory feeling with this member of the proletariat.

Maybe he makes sense with the bourgeois gentilhommes in the bike world, i prefer to avoid such postured pretence.

his vent about a dissatisfied customer in his summer 06 reader further disgusted me. i did pick it up yesterday, so my dislike was fresh....

are stock rivendell framesets really that good to wait four months for? I'd say, emphatically, NO, no off the shelf frame is worth partial payment in advance to help the owner cover his bottom line and a four month wait.