even though I am now a bike shop owner, I still check out SAC from time to time. Before the shop I was addicted.
Now when I look it's to check out what they are getting a hold of, and who is selling to back country, and whether or not the deal is all that great. It's just another form of addiction I guess. I did once buy some L and M lights on SAC that were closeouts. They were cheaper than I could get them for. I use them for our "demo under the stars" mtn bike demo's that we do here. (AZ in the summer means mtn biking at night or VERY early am).
I was however very turned off by a quite tasteless press release they sent out when they launched their mtn bike site huckandroll.
It basically called mountain bikers "scab pickers" and had a statement like "hikers and climbers don't know jack s**** about mtn biking".... Hmmmm how many people do I know that do all three?? Umm one WORKS for me.
I think they were trying to go for some cool, macho, we rule because we live on the edge vibe. But it didn't work for me.
So it cast a dark shadow on how I feel about them. I won't say I'm boycotting them, I'm just a bit jaded.





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