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In the winter is when my shop sells the most ss/fg bikes. This is due to the easy maintenance when dealing with the disgusting roads of upstate NY. Road salt, slush, snow, dirt, ice. It's terrible here. Utterly terrible.
Knowing this is the time when we sell the most ss/fg bike our Cannondale rep dropped off a Capo to the store for a test/demo bike. Of course i was called in to play with this bike. we have NEVER had a capo in the store. Langsters (never the "city" models), Raleigh One-Ways and this year the Rush Hour (which is a really nice looking OTP bike for the price).
I put on set of my wheels and took it out for about 20 minutes. I fucking hated it. HATED IT. It was alreadya size down, so i had to adjust to it, but i ride bikes too small all the time. The langsters are susually 2-3 sizes smaller than i ride when i am fucking around at work. But this bike just felt so wrong.
I got a phone call from the rep pissed because his friend, who happens to be another dealer rep, heard me talking to the other employees about how much I hated this bike. "it's not even teh right size" "why wouldn't you wait until the srping to ride it?" "what if customers heard you talking about the bike?".
well yeah its not the right size. get me a 58 in the store to ride then. then take it back because we won't sell it.
why would you call and tell me to come check out the bike if you didn't want me to ride it yet?
and this si the best question. first. it's winter and we have NO CUSTOMERS IN. no one would hear me say shit. besides, when i go to sell bikes this year, this bike feels like shit. so i't already at the bottom of my list when showing people bikes. if they ask should i getthis or a bianchi (which we don't even sell) i'd say honestly get the bianchi. it's at least a bike you're going to ride and maybe you will bring it back here to get serviced/buy tires/ someting.
basically i'm just bitching about this bike and the huge dissappointment it was.