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I'm with Toaster here. I work with a lot of LBSs and the pressure they get
form the big boys to sell this stuff is unreal. They think it's cool,
therefore everyone else should.
What happens if you are the sucker that buys one of these "new" standards and
it flops. We saw so many suspension types fail that the bikes become useless
after a couple of years. I work at a co op where people fish through crates
for a part for some (at the time) innovative fork. Now people are forking out
thousands for something that might not even be around in a couple of years.
But that LBS salesman has to move it, so he'll lie through his teeth to get
rid of this dust collector.
The biggest causality will be the LBS. Plus now they have to train staff and
mechanics on all this crap.
April 25, 2015, 5:50 p.m. - Mark Friis
#!markdown I'm with Toaster here. I work with a lot of LBSs and the pressure they get form the big boys to sell this stuff is unreal. They think it's cool, therefore everyone else should. What happens if you are the sucker that buys one of these "new" standards and it flops. We saw so many suspension types fail that the bikes become useless after a couple of years. I work at a co op where people fish through crates for a part for some (at the time) innovative fork. Now people are forking out thousands for something that might not even be around in a couple of years. But that LBS salesman has to move it, so he'll lie through his teeth to get rid of this dust collector. The biggest causality will be the LBS. Plus now they have to train staff and mechanics on all this crap.