Originally Posted by
merziac
This will up your Big S game, never a bad thing, you've already got a great start. You can be the purple Big S whisperer.
As it happens, my co-worker did buy the Hardrock. I'm feeling rather chuffed about it.
I have an acquaintance who is also looking for a new bike; she's tired of her 35 lb Magna, so I steered her toward a LBS and possibly a Sirrus, also purple. She certainly seemed to like it, and the wrench who helped her turned out to have grown up in the same place she did, so they had a grand time. Different experience from the other LBS; they showed her $1000 bikes. Which reminds me, I need to email her.