quality sucks, but not bad for a cellphone 
this was an extra office in my building, but now will be bicycle central! soon the porn mirrors will come down and some pegboard for tools will go upā¦
sweet !
Thereās nothing wrong with pron mirrors! Put the corkboard on another wall!
I used to BMX like crazy when I was younger, I still even got my Holmes in the garage. but now I been looking into mountain biking. I wanna get myself and my girlfriend a bike to go riding. I dunno where to begin looking for bikes. I want something that can feel like a BMX but be able to handle mud, dirt, uphill, and downhill without a problemā¦ I seen those mountain / bmx looking bikes, what the hell are those?
i know the ceiling of someoneās bedroom needs those mirrors!! 
Iām assuming you want a dirtjump style bike, but a trail bike that you ride through single track is going to have different geometryā¦ probably a hardtail with a 4" forkā¦freeride style?
ya I was lookin it up on the interweb and its called āFreeride Styleā
seen a bike I liked alot āGTā brandā¦ fucker was $7000 
Iāll go out and buy a victory for that price
maybe something like this:?
What happened to the 2,614 moldy speakers we put in that room? I can only assume the ghosts moved themā¦:scared:
hahaā¦ i actually donated all those speakers to a church.
itās the rider, not the bike. the more expensive bikes will be a little bit lighter and have better brakes and shifters, but if you are just getting back into it, go buy a cheapo mongoose from toys r us and see if you like it.
I could do everything on my $99 dunhams bike than I can do on my $500 trek bike. The trek is lighter and easier to shift though.
true to a pointā¦ although a 99$ wallymart special might turn you away from riding b/c the bike sucks so much.
Yes, my $4800 Gary Fisher does the same thing my $300 1993 mongoose does, its just how you wanna do it.
ya the bank is badass, and is just about what Iād be looking for. but its probably over $1000. Iād be looking for something around $500 and under for my first bike with gears
What id doā¦ set aside some time, get out to dirty harrys, pro bikes, and Trek. Give them all your scenerio and see what they show you and what you like. Those are my 3 most frequented stores, dirty harrys especiallyā¦ thats who i bought my Hifi off of and who i spent my 4 grand at :tounge:
bigbangbikes is also a decent store in the south hills. thatās where I got my trek at.
Big bang is a sexy sexy shop, not a ton of mountain stuff thoughā¦ they did have a scott ransom i was stiff in the pants for!
wow dirty hairyās, that is a name I havnāt hear in a while. I remember growing up and the shop in verona used to sell, Dirt bikes and skateboard stuff as well as bikes. Gattos Bicycle was across the street. Then DH sold Quads and Bikes, and now just bikesā¦lol
Ah memories.
haha i bought a robinson gt from the one in verona a long ass time ago
I owned/ran a shop that has locations in Squirrel Hill and Monroeville for a long time. If you are considering getting back into ridingā¦donāt shoot for the top bike-wise. Itāll be huge waste of money, and in the sub-600 hardtail category the name on the frame doesnāt mean shit. Take Giant for example, they produce all the frame for lower end Trek, GF, Specialized, Schwinn, and several others. All that matters is how the componentry is specād. Look for things like a decent set of ball-bearing disc brakes, Shimano components (Deore or aboveā¦9spd groups and upā¦Sram is making a bit of a comeback as well), and a decent fork (over 120mm travel is tough to come by for an inexpensive model). Long travel forks and dual-suspension have their ways of making a noob rider hate them. Too bouncy for guys just learning to control the bike. Iāve been in the business for over a decadeā¦
Thats pretty cool manā¦ what was the shop(s) called?
Its one thing if you know what you want, but another if you are going off of like what color it is :tounge:. Its true, big bikes have there placeā¦ my buddy Flareside on here started riding a little while ago and I got him a deal on an Azonic Saberā¦ basicly a freeride bike that i talked him into trail riding! He has a GF Rig now that he loves and now I own the Azonic ;).
BikeTek co-owners are Frank and Angelo. I sold out my share, they closed down the Monroeville shop and moved the Sq Hill shop across the street, still on Forbes though. You could pretty much consider the two shops polar opposites. Ang and I ran the Sq Hill one, Frank ran the other one into the fucking ground, and seriously damaged his/our reputation. Not because he was incompetent, but heās socially unprofessional, and that kills business.
As far as a shop is concerned, 95% of the people who walk in are looking for a cheap fun bike to mess around on. Real riders donāt go to shops for stuff, they already know what theyāre looking for and where to get it. Aside from the pro teams I wrenched forā¦I rarely sold high-end stuff. I was an Airborne, Merlin, Felt dealer specializing in ultra high-end road bikes, but we donāt sell enough of them to keep the business afloat, same with higher end dualies and hardtails. Luckily we carried Giant, Raleigh, Diamondback (the shop specific models, not the Dick junk) to keep the moeny coming in. 90% of profit is generated by tubes, pumps, mini tools, helmets and labor.
One big discepancy is the actual building of a bike. You donāt just pull it out of the box and assemble it. VERY few shops have well trained mechanicsā¦shit half of them arenāt even over 18. I used to get guys from surrounding shops come in and ask if they can try out for jobs, I only hired one guy over the course of 8 years. If you canāt build, true, round, and dish a set of wheels, donāt even botherā¦