Just got back to full time at the bike shop, spring is around the corner and people are buying. Of course things are not as bad here in Canada as in the US especially on the west coast. We're pretty sheltered in the capital city as well.... government, education, science and technology as well as military are the big employers here, those are all pretty stable jobs and those people are the ones carrying the service industry. In the early months of this year high end bike sales were decent. Now people are come out of the wood work for the low end bread and butter bikes. All signs point to a more or less "normal" season in the bike shops.