Another article, this one from the New York Times, about how cycling is the new golf. Yes. I realize this article is two months old. I've been busy...
That Ms. Jargowsky spent the equivalent of a few years' tuition at a perfectly respectable state university to buy two bikes when she barely knew how to ride may strike some people as — let's be honest here — floridly insane.
Wow, and I can't dump $800 on a bike I'll ride every day without pangs of guilt, but I disagree with this...
It's no secret to anyone who has ever endured an encounter with a grease-stained, eye-rolling, heavily sighing bicycle shop employee that customer service in the industry has historically ranged from sullen to supercilious to overtly hateful. ("It's one of the few retail industries where a condition for employment seems to be utter contempt for the customer," said one industry executive.)
I doubt any of the Critical mass people pictured spent $10k on a bike.
Pretty dim view of bike shop folks. My every trip to Proteus has been a joy.
Posted by: taleswapper | December 31, 2006 at 05:07 PM
If you aggregate the cost of all of our bikes, it might hit $10,000...
Posted by: T. Paine | January 06, 2007 at 10:15 AM