Grocery shopping (& Consumer Reports)

Griff · 07-13-2007, 07:05 AM

When I worked at a bike shop, the owner used to keep an old copy of CR around. It had a comparison of bicycles that hammered one that we sold. Unfortunately, it was a false comparison if you looked at the component groups and the fact that they'd apparently gotten an improperly tuned and assembled bike. Final assembly and tuning are done by the local shop not by the manufacturer, but CR had painted our product line as inferior based on a bad assembly.

Now I take everything they say with a grain of salt because they had no expert knowlege of bikes.

07-13-2007, 07:05 AM	#37
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	When I worked at a bike shop, the owner used to keep an old copy of CR around. It had a comparison of bicycles that hammered one that we sold. Unfortunately, it was a false comparison if you looked at the component groups and the fact that they'd apparently gotten an improperly tuned and assembled bike. Final assembly and tuning are done by the local shop not by the manufacturer, but CR had painted our product line as inferior based on a bad assembly. Now I take everything they say with a grain of salt because they had no expert knowlege of bikes. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

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