Bright side: Had a wonderful series of excited phone calls from a wonderful lady from Tampa today. She has been looking for a road bike that will fit her demure size, and has been searching high and low, in and around her area. As with so many of us today she is working within a budget. And until today, everything she has located so far was well OUT of that budget. Until she discovered us. As it turns out, Adam was in the process of restoring an older Fuji ladies road bike we got from one of our more proliferate scrappers last week, and it was the perfect size, as well as being lightweight cro-moly with aluminum components. Well the excitement didn't stop there. As Adam was hitting a couple of walls getting it done, I stepped into assist and we double teamed it to get it done in time. She arrived about a half hour to early, but was very pleasant in her repose, and her and her daughter hung around the plaza to "get into trouble" as we worked. She was quite charming as she expressed her joy in our being here, and to use her own words "this is the coolest store, EVER!"
WOW. We are honored!
She further expressed bewilderment as to why there are not more shops like this around. Well we have our theories as to why that is, derived from the info we gather from various other dealers and bike groupies. Seems you can't do what we do.
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And you can't make money at it.
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Well, where it's true we will never get rich, at least we can pay our bills. And nowadays that IS something to be VERY thankful for!
But, as to the "Stupid" part. Working on the bikes requires one to on occasion (or more often then not) squat.
Apparently I had forgotten my injury. But upon standing back upright, I WAS reminded!
OY!
Apparently my dim wittiness has seep into my nerve endings and ceased all communication with the receptors in my brain.
Either that, or I have been sniffing to much paint fumes!
ANYWAY!
Another fantastic day has blessed us. The lonely Huffy "Daily Banger" that has been sitting here FAR to long finally found a home with a weary traveler, recently suffering from (or benefiting from. depends how you look at it) from catastrophic vehicle failure. Dressed in what seemed a very uncomfortably warm shirt and tie, he needed to make it to work on time, and was none to happy at the prospect of walking the distance, so we cut him a deal and sent him off happy.
Gentleman came in looking for a brake for his BMX, and realized that we had one similar to what he had, and the whole bike was cheaper then ordering a new brake set. So he rode off with it and can use the other one for spare parts! And just as we opened a young man being rewarded for finishing Job training picked out the Old School Mongoose we had out! Way to go, man!
And to all the re-pairs we serviced today, thanks to all, as usual for your trust!
And we got some Humdingers of sweet buys today. The tippest toppest being the swEET Dawes Hybrid you see below! Well worth the scratch I laid out!
Well, i am back to work as I want to help Anthony finish up HIS Fuji before I leave!
NIGHT!
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