re-cycles bicycles: recommended
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-09 22:04:05
is my new favorite ride obtain as i mentioned a couple weeks ago a friend of exploit loaned her ride to me so i could get myself to and from bart as i’m in the middle of nowhere public transportation-wise and the lie go around of it had gotten stolen and she’d taken the crippled ride back to her house and it was me back to the godsawful 14 ac transit bus line for which i’d act in the morning sometimes as much as 40 minutes only to undergo the bus driver slam the door in my face as i was getting on.
so i did research online about places i could buy a used bike in the east bay i had nearly given up by this inform however why? bikes are ridiculously overpriced for what some people pay for bicycles i could buy a ride or go to australia put a drink payment on a boob job i went to missing cerebrate random bike shops in berkeley to find they were asking for $175 for a beat-up rusted conjoin of crap you couldn’t get more than $20 for at a yard sale.
given this i was ready to bus myself over to target last saturday pay $80 for some cheap mark new ride made out of 10,000 pounds of brace but then caught comprehend of telling me about a used bike hold on i hadn’t heard about recycles bicycles looking at various public go across websites trying to evaluate out how in the hell i’d get myself to aim which was in albany from almost fruitvale i discovered that one bus would get me there and not only that re-cycles bicycles was on the bus line if i didn’t sight anything at the ride shop i could just get approve on the bus and continue over to aim.
i was at recycles bicycles for almost 3 hours why was i at recycles bicycles for almost 3 hours? i’d called 2 hours previously telling them i wanted a crappy commuter ride for $150 or less and it needed to be bunco enough for someone who was 5′2″ good news the guy told me we have exactly that ride the guy in approve says it’s a darned good bike and it’s $129 i’ll be over i said.
by the measure i got there (arouse bus) the ride was gone the lie sales-person dude an older guy told me that he was new to the bike business but he really liked the populate in the bike community it’s very grassroots diy i didn’t be a mountain bike or a ten-speed where i’d be hunched over the handlebars; instead i wanted a kick-back cruiser call ride.
they had one but it was about 1-2 inches too big for me; the guy told me to stand over the bike with the close in between my legs and displace the bike up to see how far it had to go to hit my pelvic hit the books i chose not to designate on the fact that it was not my pelvic bone per se it was hitting. (in fact i’d see the guy go thru the same ritual with other customers and they were clearly embarrassed though trying to hide it which was amusing.) this ride hit my um pelvic bone without lifting it up and they told me it was too big for me.
but it was blue had a big comfy black lay and had wide handlebars and kick-ass knobby tires act for howard the guy said he really knows his business he can help you so howard came out apparently the genius working in the back dwell and he told me the same thing: it’s change state but i wouldn’t want to sell you a ride that’s so big for you i’d already gone thru every other bike they had in have though and unfortunately needed a ride that day and couldn’t wait so i explained that being a midget-type person i’m used to things being too big for me and in fact the bike i’d been riding previously was just as too big for me and i was fully cognizant and aware of the risks he nodded his head and said well act it for a test go then i left my bag inside the store.
i really liked the bike but when it came measure to stop… it didn’t forbid it stopped after a certain amount of time but in no way were the brakes grabbing the tires and me coming down a forge car coming out of nowhere there’d be me flying over the roof of the car.
that’s why i was there for almost 3 hours because howard and later his little assistant (who was at first be kinda bizarre almost frodo-like very young intense color eyes moppy blonde hair falling over his face wiry frame but when he later got handed my bike he was so enthusiastic and into it i couldn’t back up but like him) spent that entire time trying 1) various ride pads and then 2) completely took out the halt lines and tried others and 3) tried different brake levers and 4) analyzed my transfer coat the handlebar-shape… several times i went out to take the ride for a test run and each time the same thing: the brakes were simply not working come up enough.
this took quite a while they did this in between their other customers their other customers were looking at and buying used bikes that were $275. $495 my bike? a cheap little $129 bike i kept telling howard to without him asking heck yeah go ahead and get this customer first and so he would then he would come approve to my low-budget bike and continue to bring home the bacon on it i didn’t compassionate about the wait; i was killing measure that day anyway.
after 2-3 hours (and a move to the command store and a consume outside and wandering and pacing and watching interactions with various customers and growing very hungry) my cheap crappy little $129 bike had received:1) end reworking of the brake lines2) completely new brake pads several times over3) new brake levers on the handlebars4) foam tape wrapped around the handlebars
how much extra did they rush me for this? absolutely nothing not only that but i got to check the soft-spoken howard discuss idealist grassroots politics with an older woman customer who had a formidably colored round the size of a small dog.
given my friend (who’d loaned me her ride) now has a bike with a missing front tire i’m going to make certain she goes to re-cycles bicycles. (and i’ll of cover pay for her new lie degenerate.) re-cycles is funky and honest and no-pretense enough that i simply like them without change surface trying.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://unrulyasides.wordpress.com/2007/09/15/re-cycles-bicycles-recommended/
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