Quote Originally Posted by CorsairMac
more like "run-a-way" model!

I think having a bike shop right on a bike path is an Awesome idea!!

Lemond bikes are made by Trek so if you're going to carry Trek, you should have no problems carrying Lemond.

Specialized changed their "sales" tactic this year just as an FYI. My LBS was a Trek/Specialized dealer but no more. Spec is requiring all their dealers to maintain a certain amount of inventory and is dictating the type of inventory the LBS can carry. For some of the little guys like mine, it was too big a inventory to have on the books and Spec wouldn't work with them so they dropped the line and picked up Gary Fisher instead.
As I ride a Specialized and that is what my dealer carries among many others to cater as well as he can to the market, I asked a few questions. Maybe it is different in other areas or maybe they are getting down on the dealers that carry Trek but my dealer does not have any problem at all with them. He does not carry Trek, mainly because he wants the best selection he can give to his customers needs and Trek would not allow him that so his offerings in road, mtn, hybrid, & comfort bikes are: Specialized,Cannodale, Raleigh,Diamondback (a Raleigh Co.) Kestel, Lemond, Gary Fisher, Schwinn and maybe Univega for Hybrid.

In his honest opinion, with a Trek vs Specialized, he feels for the money you will get more value with the Specialized and from a catalog, he showed me a few examples.

Again, my research fell with this one dealer and it may be different elsewhere.

~ JoAnn