Bike One can go eat a wiener!

short post, been shopping around locally for my track crank. Have my eyes set on the Sugino RD crank 48t 130BCD that I found online, but wanted to see if I could find it anywhere in Norman. Well, the lovely fellows at Buchanans, who are extremely friendly and very helpful, ordered some track cranks and should be getting them in within 3 days...Not Sugino, but they said the cranks they are getting in are just as durrable if not more. I should have written down what kind they were getting in to do some research on em. Then I went to Bike One (which I will talk about in a minute), and I also went to Al's Bycicles (not always the best, but very affordable and just as friendly as they guys at Buchanan). Now the guys at Al's and at Buchanan were more than willing to answer any questions I had, were very informative...and my experiences were over all very pleasant.

Then there's Bike One. I walked in, and went straight to the counter and simply asked "Do you carry track cranks?"...One of the guys looked at me like I was an idiot, and then responds with "Track cranks?". Naturally I responded with "You know, like for a fixed gear, single speed...I was looking at a Sugino online, and also the Sugino messenger 46t." Then the other guy was like "We can order them, but you really don't need to buy one." Weird...I'm trying to give your business some money and you're turning it away? Huh! So, then the first guy procedes to explain to me that "you can use any chainring and crank arms for your fixie." So I explain to him that I am in the market for a completely brand new crank set, and that I am currently using a chainring and arms from a Peugeot which measure at a whopping 52t! The gear is just too much!" So the guy kind of looks at me and is trying to obviously end this conversation and turns to the other guy and starts to walk away, then the second guy tells me the exact same thing and procedes to point at the girl sitting behind the counter and says "we did it with her bike and she hasn't had any problems." So I repeat myself, pleading my case...and then the dude says to me "Well we can order whatever you need and have it in within one day..." FUCK THAT! You guys didn't even know what a damn track crank was! Why would I want to trust you with ordering one for me...hell...you guys were turning my business away and trying to tell me that I could keep riding around on my 52t chainring....NUTS!

With that said, I will be ordering my crankset this weekend. I could wait for Buchanans and even Al's, but if I'm going to be waiting, I want the crank set that I want.

GO EAT A WIENER BIKE ONE! I will never go in there ever again!!!