Originally Posted by
Jabba Degrassi
You never figured it would be such an ordeal to get a bicycle shop to lend you a bicycle for a day or two? You ever ask a car dealership the same question? Or a motorcycle shop? Or just about ANY business?
It's not a bicycle library, dude.
There are car dealers that will let you take a car home overnight and try it out.
Bike shops could do the same if it wasn't for the average mentality of "new"-crazed consumers - (a credit card and a license should be sufficient). Unfortunately, and this is certainly true in the US, people have been conditioned to think an object that is barely used is of nearly 30-50% less value than its right-off-the-production-line counterpart. People are afforded the luxury of having OCD-like traits about scratches and dirt. In places where appearance trumps functionality, you'll always find colder shoulders.