Sunday, January 3, 2010

29 Dec 2007 - Buying my first Mountain BIke


Now I don't have the best track record for sticking with things, (in fact I'm king of the unfinished project) so I thought that when buying a bike I better not spend too much money just in case it spends the next few years gathering dust in the garage. This pleased the Minister for War and Finance (aka my lovely Wife, I'll call her "34C" and leave the rest to your imagination) who is always willing to remind me that I am prone to the odd impulse buy.

I visited quite a number of bike shops around Brissie and was pretty bloody surprised how the "newbie" wasn't actually made that welcome about 75% of the time. Now I'm not an overly sensitive bloke but I was astounded by some of the people, (assistants to owners) who I dealt with who, when they discovered that I didn't have 5 grand in my pocket really didn't want to know me. Pretty short sighted really because I'm not exactly in the poor house and I'm traditionally a very loyal customer if shown a bit of courtesy. I honestly would have imagined that with interest rates, fuel prices and grocery bills all on the rise that any business would be insane to treat a potential customer with anything other than courtesy and respect, (is it possible that all bike shop owners are all millionaires?? Probably not me thinks...).

My mate Galps (who rides an older Merida) and I thought, why not try Anaconda. They have plenty of specials and generally have decent quality products. So we rolled into Anaconda at Springwood and checked out the Fluid brand of Mountain Bikes. So about a month after being abandoned by my mates at Burleigh, I found myself on a brand new Fluid Momentum for the conservative sum of $450. Not bad... the bike seemed to have all the main components I needed for a bit of social riding around the trails. Actually as it turned out.. it wasn't such a crash hot purchase..

More to come...

Wellsy

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