"She better get over here and defend her honor :)"

Or at least post some pictures of herself looking outraged. Or thankful. Whatever.

I do like your name. I was a Tight End, too slow to be a wide receiver but not big enough to be much of a blocking TE either, so when I came in it was usually 3rd and 5, I would drag across the middle at about 6 yards, catch the ball and get hammered. Repeat that about 5 times a game and that sums up my football career.

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or washing her bike;)

Yes a few words where misspelled but if you look at it most where in fact typos where I missed a key. Also my use of the word "kinda" is not meant to be correct because I use that word daily. I use the same words and sentence structure as the way I talk.

Now if you guys where to take a picture of my bad writing and post it I would be pissed.

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yeah, but since when are you reputable?

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A few words WERE misspelled ;-)

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I am just replying because I felt left out and wanted to get in on the thread.

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Now that I know some of you guys look through the special needs bags for kicks, I'm gonna put some really weird stuff in mine. I can see it now. "What the heck was he going to do with a family pack of KFC chicken, a football helmet full of peanut butter, a 12 inch rubber dildo, and naked pictures of Bea Arthur?"

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[reply][b]If he's willing to post pics of your bike on a forum and then rip you that leads most people to wonder what else they might do.[/b]

I think he's just oversensitive, really. "Waa! He said my bike was dirty!" I don't think it's at all a matter of wondering what other devious, underhanded behavior that rat Demerly might try to pull. Who knows, though- the bastard might actually clean the bike.

I'm out. Peace.[/reply]

and you glossed over the rest of my post. Convenient.

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Yes but I wanted to point out that other mistakes where made.

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EDIT: I don't want to judge anyone. I was in a bad mood earlier. Sorry Tom.

Just when I think I'm out, you pull me back in.

I don't think I glossed over any of your post. I think I just quoted a representative portion to respond to, is all. You were saying that it's an issue of trust, and that if Demerly is willing to post pics of your bike on the forum, you'd worry about what else you couldn't trust him with, right?

I just don't think there's an issue there. What's he going to do, cut my brake cables? After all, he did post pics!

Now I'm really out.

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"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."

Seriously, it was pictures of a dirty bike without a name attached. No one could identify the bikes unless they personally knew the person. And if they did, they already knew the bike was dirty. Is that really such a big deal? Is there really some huge breach of trust? Was it wrong? Not necessarily. Was it the right thing to do? Not necessarily.

Simply put, no one got physically hurt. Some poor guy feels offended, but nothing got harmed. Now go to your rooms and let this thread die. This forum should be for bike porn and making fun of people like smartasscoach and tibbs.

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Now that I know some of you guys look through the special needs bags for kicks, I'm gonna put some really weird stuff in mine. I can see it now. "What the heck was he going to do with a family pack of KFC chicken, a football helmet full of peanut butter, a 12 inch rubber dildo, and naked pictures of Bea Arthur?"

Please feel free to weigh in on my Tom D. thread as well. I have set certain goals for it.

Oh for chrissakes, if he had a beef with Tom, he could have picked up the phone and chewed him out. The number's all over the internet. Instead he berates him for the lack of class and smears him at his favorite forum, anonymously then skips away with a smirk to watch the fireworks.

He got what he wanted.

[reply]Oh for chrissakes, if he had a beef with Tom, he could have picked up the phone and chewed him out. The number's all over the internet. [/reply]

And Tom could have phoned victorbike. Tom was showing off by showing up some guys with less-than-perfectly-kept bikes.

Wow, how do you have the time to personally deal with 1.2 million people per week, that is like 2 people per second. I can see why your customer service is so great indeed. I just cannot see your significant other being pleased with you loving every one of them:)

Seriously though if you are happy with all of your customers great, it is just not like that for everyone.

He's going to get that PhD in history and we are going to help. No doubt in my mind.

Yeah, Tom could have. But he fixed the bike and then showed it to us as a warning.

I swear, we all bitch about customer service and lack of initiative, then when someone shows some, we find some reason to crawl all over them. I used to work in a camera store, and when a customer handed me a camera, one of the first things I did was clean the lens. Just cleaned it while talking with the customer. Bet that never happens at the WalMart.

Oh come on Nome, looking at those facts wouldn't be any fun!

From their website:

With TriBike Transport, you can drop off your bike and an extra bag of gear (optional) at one of our partner bike shops a few days before you leave for your Ironman. You may also have it tuned up by the shop*, and we will take care of everything from there. We will take your bike, carefully load it securely, fully assembled, on one our trucks, drive it to your race, unload it and have it ready for you to pick up, ready to ride, at your destination.

*Contact your shop directly to schedule your tune-up

So, unless Viktor contracted directly with Tom (which we do not know), then Tom was doing work that he hadn't been asked to do.

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Does anyone else find it absolutely hilarious that this troll signed in, posted one time, and got everyone so spun up that 270 post and 2 days later this thread is still going strong? I'll bet he/she is sitting back laughing their ass off.

OK- I guess I'll get drawn into the silliness too... I believe that Tom's intentions were totally above-board, but I can understand how Viktor might have gotten his feelings hurt by this. Call me old-school, though- whenever I've had a grievance with a retailer I've always found it best to contact them and speak to them rather than hoping to resolve my grievance on an internet forum with a bunch of strangers. Regardless of Viktor's complaint this whole situation has deteriorated to nothing more than comedy, and Viktor, in his attempt to stroke his hurt ego, hauled himself out of anonymity and brought further ridicule on himself.

Viktor, at least come back and humor us with some more gems. It's not sporting to post one message and then disappear ;-)

Score:

Tom -1

Viktor -1

ST forum +10,000,000,000 in entertainment value

What did I say? Everyone go to your rooms.

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- Nick
Now that I know some of you guys look through the special needs bags for kicks, I'm gonna put some really weird stuff in mine. I can see it now. "What the heck was he going to do with a family pack of KFC chicken, a football helmet full of peanut butter, a 12 inch rubber dildo, and naked pictures of Bea Arthur?"

Waterski,
Ok, A bike store owner takes pictures of bikes in his posesion (not his bikes) and post them with out owner approval but no names of who the owners are.

One owner gets on line to complain.

I take that as a difference of appropriate behavior and a gray area in Tom's action. Tom even started the post saying some might think im a Dick for this.... So he knew he might offend some, but in his mind he was helping the better good.

Ya it would have been better if he had taken the pictures at a transistion area, then the owners could not yell their bikes were in a public area and they could not say I was gonna clean it before the race (not sure why victor added that).

But If I want to Judge character, Victorbikes direct acusation of not paying for services rendered are undisputably inappropriate and unless he has facts to support them, probably comments he could lose a court case over.

So if Im keeping score, Victorbike's comments are far more offensive and out of line then Tom's pics of the bikes.

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