Is that a QR Redstone in the background?

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Suffer Well.

It's going to be 75 and sunny all week here (we had our A/C on two days ago). Top that! (I need to pick my battles on this one)

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http://www.austinTRIcyclist.com
http://www.Cannondale.com

Attn : Fatdoggy - hint for life at ST...if you have a complaint about a shop such as yours - take it up in a PM. Dan catches wind of your posts and you may just get banned.



Kudos for R&A calling him on it.



FWIW...I think that if anyone goes into a LBS and happens to have Performance, Colorado Cyclist or any other mail order only brand clothing on they should be ignored at an LBS (not saything that is the case here).

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What if the Hokey Pokey is what it is all about?

yup!

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All the best,

Al Cabbad
R&A Cycles
al@racycles.com

This post proves it to me...the Caliente has it all over the P2C in the flash department. Both bikes are badass...but I'm glad QRs fit me better...

hi 40s low 50s and rain here- you got us beat on that one!!!!

;-)

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All the best,

Al Cabbad
R&A Cycles
al@racycles.com

This does not look like inventory is turning over man... ;-P

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What if the Hokey Pokey is what it is all about?

Good call Don, we had to come up with something.

OH and how about we have better Mexican food.

When they were new we had probably upwards of 20 or so redstones in stock. One or two left is a pretty good turn over I would say for this bike!

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All the best,

Al Cabbad
R&A Cycles
al@racycles.com

Do you have any Trek Y-Foils? Size 54???

t~

just a few 48s nos. Sorry!

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All the best,

Al Cabbad
R&A Cycles
al@racycles.com

lets not forget, r/a [i]is[/i] also a mail order business...

Yes, this is Jens Voigts bike, but we had to move it for the QR night as we needed the space for chairs. It is normally displayed in full sight!

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All the best,

Al Cabbad
R&A Cycles
al@racycles.com

[reply]This looks like a bike shop wang hang between R/A and Austin TriCyclist![/reply]

Not really, because a customer was tooting ATC's horn while here RAC is tooting their own horn...

Yes, just like the other big shops, we do have a large internet and mail order business, but we started as and still currently a true bicycle shop. Although high end is our bread and butter, we still serve the community with children's bikes, and price point mountain and hybrid bikes as park slope in brooklyn is still a family community and we support the community!

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All the best,

Al Cabbad
R&A Cycles
al@racycles.com

I found, too, that R&A has a very unappealing approach to sales. It's almost like they don't want anyone's business. At a certain point, I decided that I would never make a major purchase there, and when I was in the market for a new cervelo, I went so far as to buy the bike online from excel sports and got it finetuned elsewhere in NYC.

And by the way, I am not trying to be a jerk and rain on this parade. R&A has a beautiful inventory, as you can see, and it seems like some bad but truthful feedback could be some good medicine. If they took some of the criticism to heart, my sense is that they'd have a bigger business in the NYC area. It seems like some very silly attitude problems stand in their way of doing an even better business.

I had said the same thing about a Chicago area shop...got blasted and posts deleted....

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Again,

Rundhc, I apologize for any unsatasfactory service that we may have given out, but a lot has changed and we are working hard and being the premier shop around, I invite you to R&A and again I will personally help you to make your visit a great one!

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All the best,

Al Cabbad
R&A Cycles
al@racycles.com

Any chance, if I were to come in, that I could dry hump a few of those frames? It wouldn't take more than a few minutes each, and I'd bring my own tissues.

Al, I spotted the display card about it in your earlier post, I had to take my contacts out to be able to read it but read it I did.

Very nice.

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"How bad can it be?" - SimpleS

Al,

Two questions, is the DeRosa you focused in on in one of your pictures the 50th anniversary edition (was it called King?). If not it's still a beautiful bike.

Is Kuota offering up Stadler's custom paint job for the general public, or is this his frame from Hawaii? Not interested personally (a little effeminate if you ask me!), just wondering.

Thanks!

Chris

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"I do not hurt on the bike, I punish."

Damn Al, u need to lay off the coffee or something.. those are some sweet pics, but they are kinda blurry from all that camera movement.



Paul

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Paul..

Yea the Cinqunta 50th (derosa) is a King with special campy parts!

The Kuota is actually a special limited run of Norman's bike, but not his personally. We ahve them in several sizes!

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All the best,

Al Cabbad
R&A Cycles
al@racycles.com

A shop actually has multiple sets of Lightweight wheels in stock. good lord.

So, how much of this stuff is bought by gazillionaire stock brokers because it's the most expensive available? (not that there's anything wrong with that).

great pics.

a good amount! lol

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All the best,

Al Cabbad
R&A Cycles
al@racycles.com