shootingstar
03-15-2010, 05:03 PM
Geez. So glad that some bike manufacturers give detailed specifications on their bike models, per YEAR model on their web site. Thank goodness for the Internet.
I nearly drove a bike store employee to distraction, when I phoned to inquire about a particular bike model and their price. I didn't need to visit the store since I went to a competitor's bike store elsewhere and tried out the bike, had a long discussion, etc. The employee on phone and I had to juggle between similar sounding model codes. But I had a similar problem when I visited another bike store in person. People were tripping verbally over the similar sounding model codes.
MU XL sounds similar to MU SL ..over the phone. :rolleyes: And then the difference between MU XL sport. Well, you know what I mean. And the difference among MU XL 2008, MU XL 2009 and MU XL 2010.
The real test of bike store employee's knowledge is if they have detailed knowledge of the differences amongst different year models, etc.
And yes, at one store, I had a bike store employee who said, "the models are basically all the same". :mad: I'm sorry, they are not. For a short, petite person, a couple millimetres can make a difference, etc. Nor did he explain which models one could bring the whole handlebar set closer to me vs. another model.
I nearly drove a bike store employee to distraction, when I phoned to inquire about a particular bike model and their price. I didn't need to visit the store since I went to a competitor's bike store elsewhere and tried out the bike, had a long discussion, etc. The employee on phone and I had to juggle between similar sounding model codes. But I had a similar problem when I visited another bike store in person. People were tripping verbally over the similar sounding model codes.
MU XL sounds similar to MU SL ..over the phone. :rolleyes: And then the difference between MU XL sport. Well, you know what I mean. And the difference among MU XL 2008, MU XL 2009 and MU XL 2010.
The real test of bike store employee's knowledge is if they have detailed knowledge of the differences amongst different year models, etc.
And yes, at one store, I had a bike store employee who said, "the models are basically all the same". :mad: I'm sorry, they are not. For a short, petite person, a couple millimetres can make a difference, etc. Nor did he explain which models one could bring the whole handlebar set closer to me vs. another model.