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I really bothered by Performance! I ordered shoes from them on Wednesday. Delivery was promised for next Monday, but they arrived today. What is this world coming to? Ribble pricing on the same several pairs of shoes I was looking at was @15% higher.

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Originally Posted by Rick@OCRR (Post 11547044)

Then you probably knew Manny Diaz, who was the manager at the Santa Monica store and Rob Taylor who was the top mechanic? I used to ride the Santa Monica mountains with those guys, plus I rode with Manny's girl-friend Meryl Bisberg, who was the Bikecology purchasing agent at the time; since we both had Sunday's off.

Fun times, and since I was in my 20's then, a whole different outlook on the sport of cycling and life in general!

Now, Sherman, where did you put that "Way Back" machine?

Rick / OCRR

Sorry, don't remember any names....but I do remember a lot of the routes in the Santa Monica mountains. Am always looking at some of the ride photos from Southern California and trying to remember rides.

The week I moved to LA I met a couple of guys riding along Mulholland Drive and we formed a small "riding group." One of the guys was in the film industry and was unemployed almost *all* the time, so he planned out weekly rides every Saturday (he'd work a few weeks a year and pull down a ton of money in a few weeks, and then spend the rest of the year riding his bike and looking for work). On Sunday's I'd typically ride along the beach down to Redondo Beach and back home. On weekday mornings I'd ride from Westwood to the Ocean and back.

In any case, I went to the Bikecology store a ton of times...

I recently had to deal with a vendor who simply would not ship to Hawaii and wouldn't use my freight forwarder in California, ShiptoHawaii, either for reasons similar to what Nashbar is telling the OP. I would have told them to F***off except they were selling a product I needed for $200 that everyone else was selling for $500. They finally agreed to ship it to ShiptoHawaii if I sent them a certified check for the order first. Fortunately my credit union gives me certified checks with no service charge so this didn't cost me anything beyond the $0.44 to mail the check to them. It was a pain in the a** but $300 is $300. Don't know if this would work with Nashbar, or if you have anything you want from them bad enough to go through this hassle, but I'm guessing they will ship it to any address you want if you give them the cash up front.

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Originally Posted by tsl (Post 11539991)

Nashbar is owned by Performance Bicycle. Performance Bike is owned by a private equity firm, North Castle Partners. (See here.)

Rumor has it that Dorel, owner of Cycle Sport Group (read: Cannondale, GT, Schwinn, Mongoose), is in talks to acquire Performance Bicycle. (See here.)

Thanks for the information. I did not know that. Well, as Kurt Vonnegut would probably say, "So it goes".

I had heard that at one point, REI had a stake in Nashbar. Any truth to that, or is that in the "urban myth" category?

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Originally Posted by trackhub (Post 11552881)

I contacted a freind who works at REI headquarters in Kent Washington.

REI has NEVER had any stake in Nashbar.