Having not owned a bike for Many years I made the decision arrived to participate which includes mates in the village and find out from the gym and into the outside, all of them persuaded me that cycling was the simplest way to get fit, move out inside the countryside and as a vintage dodderer I had been also told it turned out low impact.
I went towards a newsagent thinking I’d buy a magazine, read it from cover to cover start the pc and order one within the net in fact what might be much better to buy and put together than the usual bike?
Nearly 30 lighter I went home with a pile of cycling, mountain biking, Road racing, trail hugging and dirt magazines ( I never realized simply how much bike porn was on the market), however, having sat down and leafed through them I quickly realized that basically would purchase the right machine next , i couldn’t just use glossy publications or even the internet I desired to see an authentic shop to be able to gain a nice bike frames .
My nearest shop was only 14 miles away so I took myself off to Rutland Water Cycling. The first thing I did was to walk in to the ground floor and saw 5 bikes near the entrance and a few more dotted around the clothing and accessory displays (I was thinking this is another case of big adverts and sod all stock), eventually I did an un-manlike thing and asked an assistant (the spitting image of Dale Winton) who (in a camp way) suggested that I followed him upstairs! I was going to say that I was blown away but given my previous comments I feel that overwhelmed is a more appropriate comment.
The sheer scale and variety had me scurrying from one end of the display to another and the salesman helping me was superb. No condescending attitude, just helpful advice that enabled me to narrow my choice down very quickly, having sat on several he even offered me the chance to spin them round the Rutland Water car park. I then decided that it would be best if I purchased from the store as so much effort had been put into my sale it seemed rude not to have done so (in fact I worked it out that the saving I might have made would have been outweighed by the blunder that would have been as the bike I chose was a completely different style to the one I had in my head when I walked in).Rutland Cycling, you are heroes.
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