State of the industry: a running thread
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Splatter Paint
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What a nightmare end.
bikeworkshop
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The nightmare for all us high Street retailers was listening to
"ten pounds? I can buy that from chain reaction for eight!".
That nightmare is over.
"ten pounds? I can buy that from chain reaction for eight!".
That nightmare is over.
bikeworkshop
Senior Retro Guru
And as a bonus, none of us will have to listen to engineers and software managers banging on about how they've linked their power meters up to their strava feeds on their horrible plastic tribikes
And as a bonus, none of us will have to listen to engineers and software managers banging on about how they've linked their power meters up to their strava feeds on their horrible plastic tribikes
I can't remember if I first saw it observed on this forum, perhaps this thread. But there is definitely something to the truism. How can you tell if someone is an engineer? They WILL tell you.
I think it was me that joked about “engineers”
Whenever I go to buy a bike from a 50-60 year old guy and he says “I’m an engineer” - that bike has some bodges that you’ve never seen before and are worse than the normal fix.
Takingabreak
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Once A Hero
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Too late for many independents possibly.The nightmare for all us high Street retailers was listening to
"ten pounds? I can buy that from chain reaction for eight!".
That nightmare is over.
My friend has just made the difficult to shut his shop of 9years as he feels the business is just not there at the moment, and he doesn't see that changing for the next 12months. Instead of making the investment needed to buy new stock in the hope that it'll sell, he's decided to get out now before he goes down a hole of borrowing money that needs to be repaid regardless of customers coming through the door.
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Well, yeah, but that's because we're right!
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