Originally Posted by
Severian
Learn to spell, learn to not make ad-hominem attacks and next time someone starts a thread about your company kindly keep your advertising out of it.
You're behaving like a 13 year old.
And when I say that the Dawes frame is crap I mean, when compared to most other IBD brands. When your bikes get reviewed on a regular basis by cyclingnews.com, velonews, bicycle magazine, bicycling.com and you get actual mention on BRAIN then I'll take your company seriously. Until then I will maintain, and continue to support the notion that you're just in it for the money. Otherwise you'd have a storefront and actually interact face-to-face with your customers.
I'm glad there are happy customers of bikesdirect.com and I wish them the best with their purchase.
In the long run I believe that your company does a disservice to the bike industry as a whole.
Kind of like Wal-Mart.
And I'll say it again... I think that this is the wrong subforum for a review of a bicycle where 2/3 of the review is a cut-and-paste of text from the purchasing site. If a review was truly the intent I would have preferred that the reviewer put the bike through a year of riding under actual commuting conditions and then return a review that answers concerns about the bike as a viable commuting rig. This should include discussion of the addition of accessories such as racks, fenders, and lights and how well the bike as a system held up. As well as how well the component choices made by the OEM held up and whether the frame handled an actual winter or not.
Then I'll take you seriously.
Just to set the record straight:
I can not spell. However, I did go to school and got 3 college degrees; including a Ph.D. And I did teach as a professor for 10 years in two different universities. So I do not feel too bad about my lack of spelling ability.
Dawes frames are not crap. They have the same QC in the same factory as thousands of frames that end up marked Trek, Specialized, and Cannondale.
Motobecanes have and are reveiwed all the time. This year all reviews are on the new Ti models. We never submit Dawes bikes for review; as that is not part of my long term plan.
BRAIN needs news articles and would publish whatever I sent in. But that is inside baseball stuff and would not help in my long term plan.
I do have store fronts. I do not know why you think I do not. I sell thousands of bikes in my stores. For at least 10 years I was the largest dealer in the USA. Now I have more focus on internet sales; which I feel are serving many cyclists in a way that they can not be served in stores. Many customers buy bikes from us that they can not get anything like in their area. And many buy to save money; and some of these feel they have saved over $2000 on a single bike purchase.
Thousands of our bikes have gone way more than a single year of commuting; and hundreds of people have posted all over the net about that. Including mant coast to coast rides.
I am sorry you object to the fact that the exact same quality bikes sold by LBS are available to consumers on the net at less money. I am sorry you do not see that several requirements of cyclists that can not be meet locally are indeed easily meet on-line.
Welcome to the future. A future of choices for consumers
I like choices