with them. I think I stopped in the shop 10+ years ago, but don't
recall much from that time. I'm in a different borough, but I have
recommended at the time. And the fellow who did the work (named Yee)
I appreciate that bike every day. Like today, on a ride in the
park. :)
> On Oct 20, 2012, at 6:20 PM,
gep71...@gmail.com wrote:
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> > I'm sure NYC has lots of good bike shops, or at least a handful---I of course wouldn't know---but I have a thing for Dave Perry, and kind of a long history, although it's all recent news to me. He attended my book talk when I was in NYC and was super gracious, really nice. He introduced himself and I recognized him barely but knew his name from his Bike Cult book of many years ago. I hooked up with an old Bstone cow-orker now living in Brooklyn, and we were walking in that part of town (lower east side, I think it is) and saw the same purple Zeus bike that I'd seen earlier outside the place I spoke at. It was outside a bike shop (BikeWorks NYC), which Dave said was his, so we went in and ----- if the do sell aluminum or carbon, I didn't seen any. It's small, but a really good shop. I talked to Ben and --- either Willard or Travis, sorry, another mechanic--and Dave, and I asked him where he grew up and he said Redwood City, CA, and then for me (maybe won't be to you) it got interesting. He said he raced, and I knew of a Dave Perry (2x district champion on the road), and it was him. We know lots of the same people.
> > The thing about Dave is, he is SOOOOOOOOOO unracy, or at least not racy in an annoying way. He knows that world and those bikes and I doubt there's anybody with a broader range of bike knowledge than Dave. But you'd never know it, because he's so low key, as is his shop. It's like finding Bob Dylan owning a record store and working the counter, stocking the bins.
> > I like NYC and I've always thought it would be good to have a dealer there, so I have been talking to Dave about it. He has no room, but he likes the bikes, and we sold him that Sam so he could get a feel for them.
> > It seems like a good fit, but I have too much respect for Dave and for myself (and too much pride) to beg. We aren't looking for dealers at all, anyway. WHen we sell to a dealer, we cut our margin to essentially nothing so the dealer can make the money--the alternative being to raise the prices to make room for us AND the dealer to make money, but then a $2300 bike would cost $2600, and when our normal way is to sell direct, it just doesn't make sense.
> > Still, I hope he becomes a dealer, and he is the only dealer in the country we don't have that I really pine for....but whether he is or not, I totally recommend him--as do others, I see.
> > He grew up in Redwood City, CA, about an hour-by-car from here, and we raced at the same time. There were some overlapping years of it, anyway. I
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> > On Thursday, October 18, 2012 7:37:08 PM UTC-7, Jimmy Hutch wrote:
> > I spied my first look at a beautiful Sam Hillborne while visiting Bikeworks NYC this afternoon. Bikeworks NYC (
http://bikecult.com/works/) had a new Sam with double top tube, albatross bars, bar end shifters and cork grips on display. It was only the 3rd Rivendell I have seen up close, the first being my AHH, the second an Atlantis belonging to a guy from Pittsburgh who was in NYC for the 5-borough bike tour. I had to buy my AHH having never seen a Rivendell, so if anyone is in the market, I highly suggest stopping by to see the Sam in person.
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> > I dropped my AHH off for some routine maintenance and they were very accommodating. I'll report back on the quality of service when I pick it up.
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> > -Jimmy
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