Originally Posted by
Lady82
my understanding is that all bikes come with something, including paperwork. The dealers just choose not to provide you with anything, unless you specifically ask not to throw anything out (if you actually had a bike in the box and built for you after pre-order). Otherwise they keep nothing. I bought my bike from the showroom, so it came with nothing.
I once bought a bike for my child. It came in a box and I had to put it together. There was quite a bit there and that was kid's 20-inch bike.
Our dealers will also not sell you a bike in a box.
Specialized has a large envelope that ahips with the bike and is supposed to contain your owers manual, other pices of somewhat useless paper and warnings, and sales paperwork. The LBS also usually takes the sales stickers and stickers from the box with the serial number information and stick those on the envelope as well. That is pretty standard. It is pretty lame to not give you any paperwork at all.