Only $1800 for reproductions!It's a throw away, you could get someone to make a complete brand-new replica set for that much.
Not to defend what Spesh have done, but Mike's new owners also own Santa Cruz.That's a really shitty move. Surprised it's legal to cancel customers existing orders due to a change of ownership. Seems hugely unprofessional in the least...
Very big! An incomplete list of their cunty action is here...no mention of Stratos!Specialized really are the biggest cunts.
Or the S works pink body painted "models".
Heel clearance
Such a shitty move.Mike's Bikes
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Not the first Douche move by the SPESH....Such a shitty move.
I wonder when (if..?) this decision get overturned...?
Surely it will. Seems like a bizarre line to tow, although I'm well aware of some of spesh's fuckwittery in the past.
Never ever lusted after a spesh bike, although I must say the latest enduro does look pretty mint in the flesh. Still, no fkn way I'd ever buy one.
No I know they've made a habit of douchery over the years.Not the first Douche move by the SPESH....
Specialized withdraws action against Cafe Roubaix in trademark dispute
Specialized Bicycles withdraws legal threat against Canadain cafe that used 'trademark' Roubaix namewww.cyclingweekly.com
They lost anything I had left of them with that one.Not the first Douche move by the SPESH....
Specialized withdraws action against Cafe Roubaix in trademark dispute
Specialized Bicycles withdraws legal threat against Canadain cafe that used 'trademark' Roubaix namewww.cyclingweekly.com
They make fantastic bikes for sure. But they need to realise that people don't forget this kind of crap.They lost anything I had left of them with that one.
They must not have had enough funds in the war chest to take on a French town so a Cafe had to be next in line.
A gold plated chunty move.
That'll buff out though.
They have made some good things but have had a lean to proprietary 'innovations' that make be spit my coffeeThey make fantastic bikes for sure. But they need to realise that people don't forget this kind of crap.
No push bike is worth $20k. It's just madness. But that conversation is for another thread.They have made some good things but have had a lean to proprietary 'innovations' that make be spit my coffee
I do wish them well with their $20k+ bikes too. Take a kidney now!
Back a few a bikes a stumpy was on the radar, test ridden and a viable option. I wanted to upspec brakes but shop told me they weren't allowed, it had to go out the door as per build sheet. They also sold Norco and they would mix and match parts no problem, just pay difference in cost price. Could be they had to build the Norco but had the stumpy built up and didn't want to double handle, there was no bike in the right colour on the floor though. No idea if that was true but it made me buy something else. Ended up elsewhere and the bike I bought had shifters and brakes swapped with better items and wasn't a Spec.They make fantastic bikes for sure. But they need to realise that people don't forget this kind of crap.
When you read the other thread, it goes deeper.Such a shitty move.
That almost certainly has to do with warranty. Full disclosure...I work as a mechanic for a shop that sell Specialized, but I am not a FanBoy to the point that I will defend everything they say, do or produce. But.....Specialized Australia recently had a delivery of 400 bikes, that were destined for Italy origianlly and Australia managed to nab them. None of those bikes would be released to the shops (and certainly not the customers) until the brakes had been swapped back to R-front, L-Rear.Back a few a bikes a stumpy was on the radar, test ridden and a viable option. I wanted to upspec brakes but shop told me they weren't allowed, it had to go out the door as per build sheet. They also sold Norco and they would mix and match parts no problem, just pay difference in cost price. Could be they had to build the Norco but had the stumpy built up and didn't want to double handle, there was no bike in the right colour on the floor though. No idea if that was true but it made me buy something else. Ended up elsewhere and the bike I bought had shifters and brakes swapped with better items and wasn't a Spec.
Fair enough, I wanted to swap sram for shimano and it was no, ultimately I swapped Hayes for shimano and while the derailleur were xt the shifters were slx so I upped them to xt.That almost certainly has to do with warranty. Full disclosure...I work as a mechanic for a shop that sell Specialized, but I am not a FanBoy to the point that I will defend everything they say, do or produce. But.....Specialized Australia recently had a delivery of 400 bikes, that were destined for Italy origianlly and Australia managed to nab them. None of those bikes would be released to the shops (and certainly not the customers) until the brakes had been swapped back to R-front, L-Rear.
One of those bikes was my Turbo Levo SL. I said to them, just send it up, I'll swap the brakes over myself, I fit brakes all the time...obviously.
Nope. They wouldn't send it out until it was changed by them. I was swapping the brakes out anyway, from SRAM to XTR, so it made no sense to me?
My point being, the shop you looked at the Stumpy in was almost certainly, just doing what they were told to do by Specialized. If you don't, as a shop, you are straight into their bad books...