Re: The Nashbar Story

Donald Gillies wrote:
To my way of thinking, recently we lost 2 great mail order shops :
Bike Nashbar and Bikeology/Supergo.  Since the Nashbar paper
catalogues turned to Performance-like Icon-Garbage in 2004-5, I'm
guessing that Bike Nashbar was "fixed" by the Performance management
team in 2004 or 2005.  

The Nashbar "paper catalogues" went glossy well before 2004-5. It was
more like the mid '80s.

It's common knowledge that Performance bought out both Nashbar and
Supergo a few years ago. But I still find better prices and more down
to earth products at Nashbar. Let's face it, cycling in general has
gotten more glossy and glitzy in the last ten years. But I've bought
plenty of $12 tires, etc. from Nashbar in recent years. And their
closeout prices on components are sometimes spectacular.

I also deal occasionally with some of the smaller, less-known bike
part dealers for the more obscure items I need.

Art Harris


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