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Bike Shops
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Toy Stores
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Train their people to match your kind of riding to all your
different bicycle choices. |
Their clerks are trained to stock shelves! |
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Carefully, proportionally fit your bike to you. This is
vital to your safety, comfort, and fun. Quality bikes are
built in many sizes to fit you OR a growing rider more
safely and longer. |
Bikes are “one size fits all!” NO frame size selection or
choice. (That’s like Nike™
making ONLY size 6 shoes to fit everybody’s feet.)
Ridiculous!!! |
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Provide you honest information, have more types of bikes for
different types of riding, and let you to test ride your
choices. |
Have few bike-type choices, no test rides, but MIGHT offer a
choice of colors! |
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Quality bicycles ARE repairable, worth repairing, and are
built with better, more durable parts less prone to
malfunction or need for repair. |
"Toy store” bikes often use un-fixable, off-brand,
“odd-ball” parts, and ARE OFTEN NOT WORTH REPAIRING!
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Bike shops have expert, trained technicians to build AND
repair bicycles.. |
Toy stores have none! |
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Correct, safe bicycle assembly by a bike shop takes an
average of an hour or more per bicycle and is FREE!
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Toy stores “throw together” 6 to 10 bikes an hour, and most
charge extra for assembly! (A bike shop would charge up to
$50 to re-build such a bike.) |
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ALL NEW BIKES need re-adjustment of gears, brakes, spokes,
bearings, etc. after an initial 15 to 30 hours of use to
operate properly and last. Bike shop warranties cover free
adjustments, parts, and labor if problems occur.
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Expect bike adjustments to cost an EXTRA $25 to $60...and
toy stores DON'T do them! DON'T overlook this "hidden
expense! And, they can ONLY give you another bike-in-a-box
when they sell you a "lemon!" |
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Properly assembled and maintained bikes last and last and
last… |
"Toy store” bikes often malfunction, need costly repairs,
and DON’T LAST! |
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Bike shops teach correct operation, safe use, and care, and
adjust your bike to you. ONE bicycle that fits, lasts
longer and "holds-up" through many riders' use (and STILL
has a re-sale value!) costs less! |
Clerks spend little or no time with you, and you get what
you pay for! Their bikes fall apart, are sometimes
NOT-fixable, are often disposable, and their frequent repair
or replacement COSTS YOU MORE!!! |
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You BI-cycle for years on bike shop bikes.
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You RE-cycle “toy store” bikes! |
