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I do not see it as Discrimination and I disagree with you that I should.
My words were in direct response to the last sentence of your paragraph where you said about bike companies providing bikes for people of your size:

"I hardly expect every company to do so."

I responded: you should.

It wasn't meant as a judgment, sorry if it came across that way. Where or when you see discrimination isn't for me to judge--I was not talking about what you should see as discrimination. I was talking about business decisions made on the parts of bike companies that affect you the consumer that, in the end, affect the chain of supply and what your options are as a consumer.

Yeah, I am happy to order anything for a customer without ever stocking it. That is simply instant profit. I risk nothing. But investing in it by putting it in my inventory and, in a shop's case, on the floor where you can test ride it and talk with me about it before you are obligated to buy it means (in my mind) that you matter as much as my other customers for whom I provide many options.

I am oversimplifying, but I do believe that speaking up about what we want and need as consumers makes a difference.