New Bike Shop

Anyone know anything about a new bike shop going in at 4912(ish) N. Elston?

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Permalink Reply by Paul Fitz, Scrabblor on October 8, 2011 at 6:31pm

actually there's a tag on most complete as-is bikes that very cleary states the bike is not functional. the 'as-is section' is intended to serve the folks looking or a build rather than a bike. I usually call our bikes refurbished instead o restored as we overhaul + replace pars as needed without too much concern for period correctness.

Why dont you say hello? I'm usually downstairs...

h' said:

Sort of. The 'old' philosophy was to get the bikes reasonably functional, and it was kind of the buyer's responsibility to take it any further.

Sometime in the last year or two, the focus shifted and now it seems the goal is to get the bikes working well, with pricing increased accordingly. I think you could reasonably argue that they're "restored."

I noticed yesterday there's a separate "as is" section of bikes that make no claims to functionality.

James BlackHeron said:

Working Bikes can't always do everything that an old bike needs and still get the bikes back out on the street while still being affordable to the buyers.

They aren't unsafe -but a few of them will eventually need a bit more work if ridden every day. And there is nothing wrong with that. They are WORKING bikes -not restored bikes.