That's odd. My Specialized dealer sells EVERYTHING. Specialized, Cervelo, Guru, Gary Fisher, Orbea, Trek, and several others. And they are able to get other bikes in by special order...like Colnago, Watford, and a few others...even though they're not official dealers and don't have any models on display (actually, I think they have one Waterford and one Colnago at the store).
What I think happens is that bike manufacturers try to bully smaller volume shops into selling only their stuff. But they can't bully large volume stores...this store is a pretty large volume store...
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Pretty much all the shops here sell more than one brand, but most of them only sell one of the "big" American brands - Specialized, Trek, Cannondale. My LBS sells Specialized, Bianchi and Serotta, and also carry Time and a probably a few others. There's also quite a few stores that carry Surly in addition to their main big brand (Surly is local, after all).
When I was in high school the shop I worked at sold Cannondale, Trek and Schwinn, with about equal floor space for each, plus a plethora of other brands via special order. I guess those days are gone.
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