Originally Posted by Marcus_Ti

And even before this...it isn't like there was that much of a demand for groupsets/parts from LBSes. The entire bike-industry successfully weaned almost everyone into accepting bicycles as pre-built systems. After all, for a small collection of bike parts--even online you can buy an entire pre-built bike system. It isn't like this is going to make money or increase sales off parts for the LBS.

Just another FU to the fringe bike-builders.