Originally Posted by
Chi_Z
you said it yourself, people who builds their own bikes would not walk into a bike shop, so of course all the people you see are buying full builds. Also just in general, the prices from Chain Reaction, Merlin, Ribble etc makes buying anything from LBS very hard.
Huh? I said 1 out of every 75. We'd do 300+ walk-ins on a Saturday. So that's still about 3-4 people a day.
People who build their own bikes absolutely walk-in to a shop, they're just far less than people looking for full builds.
In many cases, the prices from the UK retailers (especially with regards to Shimano) are actually better than the price shop employees got on stuff. Plus there was no limit!