Originally Posted by
Maelochs
If you don't sell your house, spouse, and children and give all proceeds to the local bike shop, if you don't enter into indentured servitude, a lifetime contract guaranteeing them all your time and energy for lodgings in a dog house out back and daily rations of a can of dog food, if you don't also convince your friends to do likewise ... then You and you alone are responsible for the death of "cycling culture.
That's my thought too. I get it that a LBS is nice, but there are other things I value more. That Canyon was $900 cheaper than any bike I could have gotten in a LBS. On top of that, they would have had to order it anyway and the color options where meh. Even if I did have an issue with the Canyon, I could have paid to send it back the the manufacturer or any other bike shop in the world and still be out ahead.