Bicycling

2768 readers

2 users here now

A community for those who enjoy bicycling for any reason— utility, recreation, sport, or whatever!

Post your questions, experiences, knowledge, pictures, news, links, and (civil) rants.

Rules (to be added on an as-needed basis)

Comments and posts should be respectful and productive.
No ads or commercial spam, including linking to your own monetized content.
Linked content should be as unburdened by ads and trackers as possible.

Welcome!

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

What's the deal with bike shops that don't have bike parking? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

13 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I've been to a few bike shops that don't have any bike racks outside. It's bizarre. Like, you have to bring your bike in the shop just to pick something up or to have a look around.

I'm not even talking about one place that does this, I have at least three in the area where there are no bike racks at all.

Is this normal? Why???

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

This might work fine if you just have a pretty standard regular bike.

However, imagine you're visiting a bike shop while on some kind of cycling tour and you have an 80 pound fully loaded rig with you.

It just seems silly that you have to haul all that shit inside of a store just to give them business. It's kind of disrespectful to the patrons.

I've had plenty of situations where I might be running errands with a trailer hooked up, and that would even make it difficult to bring into a store. There's just so many reasons why it's a bad idea, and almost none for why they shouldn't have a bike rack outside.