ron s.
Canyon is not the only maker that has proprietary (sp) parts and or can just be ordered on line. Most of you reading this are connected to the concept of buying online and often at the high end spectrum, if it was “what you wanted”, it would be no big deal. The fact that someone does not like that concept (does not want to purchase / work on such bikes) is just her / his choice. Granted the fact that a person with that leaning decides to post to this yellowjacket nest full of expert advice does make for the usual attacks. She has said what she thinks. Instead of preaching on and on, just buy where you want and let things find the balance. There are way more important things to consider in most people’s lives than what you think about someone choosing to work on a certain brand of bicycle. Do your thing (practice your religion) and let others practice theirs. Man….. I cannot believe this is taking place when people would be out riding hard, thus allowing the endorphins to make things seem pretty much OK. So now I have kept this shit going…..sorry folks.
ronnie
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From: Michael via OBRA
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2018 5:23 PM
To: RickCJohnson1@gmail.com; Joe Cipale
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Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] Question, Canyon bikes
Also, it’s not they don’t use totally normal parts and components top to bottom. 95% of the parts and components on ANY modern bicycle are readily off the shelf items, or can easily be replaced with an off the shelf item quickly. There’s absolutely no reason to not service someone’s bicycle. If it was 25 years old and you had no idea where to get parts, that would be one thing, but a brand new state of the art bike? Your just losing revenue and turning away customers, that will be much less likely to come back for other items like tubes, tires, gels, chains, etc.
From: Rick Johnson via OBRA
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2018 9:25 PM
To: Joe Cipale
Cc: Obra email
Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] Question, Canyon bikes
It will be easier to just watch and see which bike shops are still around a few years after they announce they'll discriminate based on the product choices of their customers.
On 7/23/2018 4:22 PM, Joe Cipale via OBRA wrote:
Tell ya what Justin,
Open up your own bike shop as you imagine it should work and get back to us in a couple of years.
Joe
On Mon, Jul 23, 2018, 8:38 AM Manville via OBRA wrote:
1) what “liability”? Would West End bikes work on my Breadwinner or DeSalvo?
2) Canyon has a huge warehouse in Chico, CA. Parts in 2 days is my guess.
3) Bike shops live and die off of service; not sales
I don’t own a Canyon but the price point makes them very attractive. The bike shop might need to reimagine itself; not a bad thing IMO.
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