Performance Bike..I miss it
01-11-23, 06:18 PM
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When I worked in shops, mail order houses like Performance were the bane of our existence. People would come in and check out stuff, then leave and order the parts for a price we couldn’t compete with. If we suspected that scenario, if they came in to have the part installed, we might have been a bit too “busy” to get right to it.
That was SoCal, where every town had a bike shop or two. When we moved to Wake Forest 16 years ago, there was no LBS in town. So my son’s first good bike came from a Performance store.
That was SoCal, where every town had a bike shop or two. When we moved to Wake Forest 16 years ago, there was no LBS in town. So my son’s first good bike came from a Performance store.
01-11-23, 08:01 PM
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I lived in Denver when they were popular. I never bought a single item at full price, I just walked in not knowing what I wanted and looked through the sale items.
I never got anything great but my budget was alarmingly small.
I never got anything great but my budget was alarmingly small.
01-11-23, 11:45 PM
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I used PB mostly to buy cycling clothes as they were a bit cheaper than other stores. Also bought tubes and a few other items there. I came back to the US while they were going out of business and closing all of their brick and mortar stores of which there were about four not far from me. I bought a lot of items over the last two weeks they were still around including gloves, four pairs of their gel shorts, more tubes, and a whole host of other items.
01-12-23, 08:40 AM
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A big problem with REI (at least the ones nearest me) is they change into ski shops during the winter months. Bicycle stuff gets pushed to some dark, neglected corner of the store and the former bicycle area gets filled with skis, snowboards, and clothing & accessories for those activities. The bike repair shop becomes a ski & snowboard tune-up shop.
