morsecode
07-22-2006, 08:08 PM
So my husband and I have been going to the TE website everyday to make our entries for the Tour de France contest (he actually won a couple of days ago - the day of Floyd's big comeback :D )... I've known about TE for a long time and have ordered from the site, so I can't believe that I didn't realize that there was a forum here.
Anyway, my name is Karen. I'm from Buffalo, NY (actually I'm not from Buffalo, but that's where I'm living now) and apparently I don't look like the kind of person who rides a high-end bike :mad: :( :confused: (this is all part of the story of how I realized there was a forum here)...
Since it's the weekend, hubby and I decided to go to our local Trek dealers to do the Tour Mania scratch-and-wins (we won a PowerBar :rolleyes: ). When we were browsing around one of them I noticed a sign about a new program for test-driving saddles before you buy them. I was so happy because I desperately need a new saddle (numbness in the soft tissue regions pretty much every time I ride). As directed we found a salesperson to ask about the program. When we did he looked at us and said that the program was really only for high-end saddles, and then went on to clarify in a patronizing way, those saddles for high-end road and mountain bikes. :eek: oooooh... that made me so mad. :mad: Granted we don't have bikes that cost thousands of dollars, but we don't have cheapy bikes either (I have a mountain bike, Trek 4500 - the women's version, though after the fact I realize that the men's version would have been a better fit for me). Needless to say, we aren't buying anything from them in the future.
[After the fact, this actually seems a bit funny. The salesguy getting all snooty with me when, you know, this isn't the store that all the "high-end" cyclists in the area go to, in fact, they just started carrying "high-end" stuff in the past two years (since the last time I went in the store), and they don't even have the alot of the really "high end" stuff (no time-trial bikes, etc)]
Sorry for this long story...
The whole point was that this incident made me refocus on my need for a new saddle and when I started doing websearch I happily happened across this forum previously unbeknownst to me :)
I'll probably be lurking around the forums quite a bit now that I know it's here. I'm recently got back into riding after 10 years. I'd love to get a road bike, but honestly I can't afford one and cars make me a bit jumpy. :rolleyes:
I'm hoping for some guidance on the saddle situation, though I do realize that different saddles work for different people.
Anyway, my name is Karen. I'm from Buffalo, NY (actually I'm not from Buffalo, but that's where I'm living now) and apparently I don't look like the kind of person who rides a high-end bike :mad: :( :confused: (this is all part of the story of how I realized there was a forum here)...
Since it's the weekend, hubby and I decided to go to our local Trek dealers to do the Tour Mania scratch-and-wins (we won a PowerBar :rolleyes: ). When we were browsing around one of them I noticed a sign about a new program for test-driving saddles before you buy them. I was so happy because I desperately need a new saddle (numbness in the soft tissue regions pretty much every time I ride). As directed we found a salesperson to ask about the program. When we did he looked at us and said that the program was really only for high-end saddles, and then went on to clarify in a patronizing way, those saddles for high-end road and mountain bikes. :eek: oooooh... that made me so mad. :mad: Granted we don't have bikes that cost thousands of dollars, but we don't have cheapy bikes either (I have a mountain bike, Trek 4500 - the women's version, though after the fact I realize that the men's version would have been a better fit for me). Needless to say, we aren't buying anything from them in the future.
[After the fact, this actually seems a bit funny. The salesguy getting all snooty with me when, you know, this isn't the store that all the "high-end" cyclists in the area go to, in fact, they just started carrying "high-end" stuff in the past two years (since the last time I went in the store), and they don't even have the alot of the really "high end" stuff (no time-trial bikes, etc)]
Sorry for this long story...
The whole point was that this incident made me refocus on my need for a new saddle and when I started doing websearch I happily happened across this forum previously unbeknownst to me :)
I'll probably be lurking around the forums quite a bit now that I know it's here. I'm recently got back into riding after 10 years. I'd love to get a road bike, but honestly I can't afford one and cars make me a bit jumpy. :rolleyes:
I'm hoping for some guidance on the saddle situation, though I do realize that different saddles work for different people.