Originally Posted by Aeroplane
You know they are serious about bikes if they have a full-suspension bike with bar-ends on it. That's how all the expensive bikes at X-mart are set up.
I was once at Dick's sporting goods, curious if they had any nice road bikes (they didn't). There was a middle aged man exclaiming to his friend how the dual suspension mtb's with disc brakes were "cutting edge technology!"
For who? The 1/100th of a percent of cyclists who ride down dry ski slopes in the summer?