£400 to Get a Bike - Where? What?

miro_o [quote]asm nigel,

Um a word of warning - if you plan on road testing a bianchi pista, don't go to evans. I saw them hand a complete newbie a bianchi pista with no brakes and shitter than shit flat pedals for a test ride. That bike has a stock gearing of 48x16, which is higher than I ride with a brake and toe clips. I was in the evans for about half an hour and the dude didn't come back in that time...

^that was the evans on the cut by the way.

That is amazingly illegal. Someone posted about getting a ear-full from Evans staff when they brought their brakeless into the shop![/quote]

This was before the uppity anti-brakeless guy worked there. It was a lazy midweek afternoon, and the only 2 people on the floor were younger than me (and i'm 19).

Nigel - Edwardes is just up the road in camberwell. Good shop, good range of bikes. Not sure exactly what they stock though. You'll (obviously) have to go to condor to test ride a condor pista though :)