Trolls - Do They Visit Bike Shops in Person?
05-13-05 | 04:45 PM
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Trolls - Do They Visit Bike Shops in Person?
There are many threads on the efficacy, attitude, pricing and knowledge of the typical LBS operator. There are many comments/posts regarding whether one or the other of us is trolling with a post.
What think you? Do trolls visit the LBS in person? How many of the little bells or chimes ringing on the LBS front door actually signal the arrival of a troll?
Have you waited for a sales associate or a mech because their time was being occupied by a troll?
What think you? Do trolls visit the LBS in person? How many of the little bells or chimes ringing on the LBS front door actually signal the arrival of a troll?
Have you waited for a sales associate or a mech because their time was being occupied by a troll?
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05-13-05 | 05:11 PM
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Frankenstein never scared me......
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This is Africa, 1943. War spits out its violence overhead and the sandy graveyard swallows it up. Her name is King Nine, B-25, medium bomber, Twelfth Air Force. On a hot, still morning she took off from Tunisia to bomb the southern tip of Italy. An errant piece of flak tore a hole in a wing tank and, like a wounded bird, this is where she landed, not to return on this day, or any other day.
This is Africa, 1943. War spits out its violence overhead and the sandy graveyard swallows it up. Her name is King Nine, B-25, medium bomber, Twelfth Air Force. On a hot, still morning she took off from Tunisia to bomb the southern tip of Italy. An errant piece of flak tore a hole in a wing tank and, like a wounded bird, this is where she landed, not to return on this day, or any other day.
05-13-05 | 07:17 PM
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They exhist. I watch in agony as some guy ripped into my LBS owner over using metric wrenches. Of all the dumbass things to ***** about. The man refused to use metric wrenches on his bike and was chewing up his wheel nuts with a 9/16ths, instead of a 15mm, and was pissed he couldn't find an English nut to fit the axle.
05-13-05 | 07:45 PM
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Originally Posted by DieselDan
The man refused to use metric wrenches on his bike and was chewing up his wheel nuts with a 9/16ths, instead of a 15mm, and was pissed he couldn't find an English nut to fit the axle.
05-13-05 | 10:56 PM
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the worst I saw was a guy who refused to buy anyhting not american made, calling the other customers who had foreign parts fascist, then proceeded to rant about all this blah blah, then once the shop owner brought him some american made parts, he started whining about hte price since they costed more than the made in taiwan parts, and claimed it was a giant left wing conspiracy...
I was half tempted to talk to him in a martian voice.. "take me to your dealer!"...seriously, that guy had to be on something....however once he left everyone in the shop was practically rolling over it.
I was half tempted to talk to him in a martian voice.. "take me to your dealer!"...seriously, that guy had to be on something....however once he left everyone in the shop was practically rolling over it.
05-14-05 | 01:24 AM
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Originally Posted by DieselDan
There are two uses for a pedal wrench, one is removing and installing pedals, the other.....
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05-14-05 | 06:08 AM
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Originally Posted by DieselDan
There are two uses for a pedal wrench, one is removing and installing pedals, the other.....
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Trolls definitely grace us with their presence.
05-14-05 | 08:24 PM
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From: Beaufort, South Carolina, USA and surrounding islands.
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Originally Posted by Raiyn
Oh man did I need that
05-15-05 | 04:03 AM
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Originally Posted by operator
Guys there's a Troll in our midst... get 'em!
05-15-05 | 02:15 PM
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Bikes: '92 novara ponderosa, '74 schwinn le tour, Novara fusion, novara transfer, novara randonee(2), novara careema pro, novara bonita(2).
I don't mean to but I troll my lbs from time to time. I have an old bike and like to tinker with stuff like halfstep and so on so I go in and ask for things like 51 tooth chainwheels or close ratio, high tooth count cassettes and freewheels(like a 14-28), or the latest was a clamp on bottom bracket cable guide. (Nobody, not even the really old shops, around here have clamp on cable guides. GRRR)
I let real customers cut in though and never haggle over the price.
I let real customers cut in though and never haggle over the price.
