Huge bike shop, limited women's cycling apparel

[shootingstar]

2 days ago we visited a huge bike shop for the first time (for me). Impressive inventory of bikes and different price ranges. MTB, road, hybrid, cruisers, etc. This store has 3 stories of inventory, alot of it devoted rightfully to bikes.

Accessories not bad.

And women's cycling clothing was nice, kind of expensive. OK. But no, lycra skorts?
Now this shop was on the edge of suburbs. Really, I doubt the majority of women living at that end of town, are into serious road riding, time trials, etc.

And of course for women's cycling shoes there was only 2 different lines for mountain biking (which I wear because I don't use clipless pedals) and all other 8 types of women's cycliing shoes were for clipless.

Meanwhile if you want a lycra skort you had better go back downtown to find them. Sheesh.

This is in a city of over 1.3 million. The people with income to buy stuff live both in suburbs AND downtown. Some of our local bike retailers had better evolve. It appears that the women's cycling clothing at that huge shop doesn't offer styles and pricing for women who would be just getting into cycling/can't afford to pay the $$$ but still want a plain jersey, etc.