Bike Buying – post dated

This post was set as a draft, so it didn.t get posted when Jenn got her bike, so I figured I’d update the date and let it go out fresh today
So, originally Jenn didn’t care what kind of bike she got, she’d have been happy with anything. So before picking her bike up, we shopped around so I could show her why she should care.
I planned the trip to go something like this; First stop, to show her how a bike shouldn.t be made, Toys R’ Us, then Wal-Mart, then Canadian Tire. The second step was to then go onto Bungays to buy a decent bike.
After showing her the multitude of problems and poor workmanship with crap they had at Toys R Us, we went right to Bungays. Haha, I pointed out the shitty messy weld job, bubbles in the paint, the garbage parts, and the fact that they wanted 149 for something that would break in no time.
Yeah.. Hah, seriously, a dude I know bought one of their “tech trek” bikes as a joke, he rode it for 3 weeks till one of the welded seams that held his fork to his bike came undone. Haha, yeah, to say they’re unsafe is to say Dan Breannan might like the occasional sip of the old firewater.
Bungays didn.t really have anything that fit her right though, Jenn is a little short, so we went up to Canadian Tire, their stock isn.t that bad if you.re just looking for a bike that wont fall apart on you in the first month. Luckily we managed to pick up a decent CCM that they had just marked down, due to the fact it was last years model. The cool part was, it was 1/2 off, and wasn.t mentioned in the flier yet, so we managed to get one before the general public bought them all and left us with a rain check.
So lessons learnt from this trip? Never buy a bike in a mall, unless you are inbreed, too cheap to care, or too stupid to care.
But, the first action to take incase you have bought a bike at the mall and realize what a lemon you got suckered into buying by a 16 year old “salesman”, is to NOT tell anybody, or to brag about it. It’s like saying “Hi, I’m a cheap sucker, please, take me for what I’m worth, and leave me bleeding in the street”
There is one exception to the rule though. You can buy any bike you want at the mall, if your plan is to throw it/yourself off a high cliff. That shits just funny.