this ain't no advert, this ain't no disco, this ain't no foolin' around...(file under: TriSport)
Submitted by Out of the Void on Thu, 04/06/2006 - 13:17.
okay kids... stumbled across a great bike shop that just moved from upper blackstone, (darn near Friant,) to Friant and Ft. Washington...-right near da Park known to all the Joanne's and Johns as Woodward... (....that just didn't sound right, did it..? oh well..)
Tri-Sport Bicycle just had a killer sale, -but stopping in today has revealed that said sale has kind of fanned out (a lot of good stuff fer sale,) --and an overall discount going on with most of their stuff at 30% to 40% off...
---totally fab bikes that can do street, mountain, and the ever so popular '...jump a ramp over running lawnmowers and a 20gallon tank of goldfish, (the shark couldn't make the gig... had to improvise...)
Dealings with these folks, (one of which is a bona-fide ska musician,,,playing Sat Night at weekend at Clovis Hook and Ladder...)
-has been a blast... very helpful,,,
-even their stuff that is not on sale is at a good price,,,
-service and repair at a great price,,,
-and parts and supplies at -you guessed it,,, -great price.... (Don't let the fancy-schmancie neighborhood fool ya..)
They even had some decent grunge tunes playing on the overhead when I was standing there drooling at the new cruisers...
(and whether you wear those faggy black and dayglo tight pants,,, sweats, or cut down jeans,,, they welcome you... (in several languages, with FULL buffet and German oom-pah band...) -okay I made the languages and buffet and oom-pah band stuff up... But they are quite friendly and know their stuff...
So GO OUT THERE, buy a decent bike, (or bring yours in for a check-up,) grab a path, and just take it... (you spoiled west coasters... no bugs in your teeth,,, where's the fun in that..)
(*say really fast in a lower register* '...previous announcement not paid for by tri-sport bicycles, the word grunge not referring to personal hygiene, Joanne Woodward not affiliated with said park, jumping over goldfishes and lawnmowers not endorsed by any abovementioned people -whether fictitious or actual, faggy pants can be, in NO way salvaged in any sociological sense whatsoever, ---some assembly required...')
Location: Tri-Sport Bicycles, Friant / Fort Washington
Starts: 2006 Apr 6 - 10:50am
Ends: 2006 Apr 6 - 10:50am
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...ahah! I knew it...
...see, I had a FEELING about this...
You cannot be a rockabilly and be uppity about rich folks and bike geeks... --Greasers simply are NOT built that way...
Rockabilly's have, (well,,, questionable, grooming technique,,,) but waaaay better tattoos, usually can wrench on anything and get home each night in one piece,,, --and can make a person who has been dead for three weeks dance like a house-a-fire ---and still find a decent date... (they will also help you if you are broke down in a pouring rainstorm in the middle of east bumswank at 2am...)
(....Remind me to tell you boys about a guy who I was, who used to get his hair cut down on Naudain in 'Philly by the originator of the D.A. (...may he rest in peace...)
Ska is a noble cause,,,
--but Rockabilly...
(..there was this KILLER 41 willy's pick up in red primer down at Chicken for the Mentally Ill (Polo-Loco..) on Blackstone tonight,,, Just begging for a cammer, stacks, and sewer pipe weedburners, bucktoothed and snotrocked with an econoline straight axle, twelve spoke altered skinnies in front,,, and white wall cheaters in the bedboards (polished or unpolished kidneys, ---you decide)
... ooooooh honey... walk like that ppppplllllleeeeeeeaze...)
--that will make those little fart-pipe hondas implode on First into Second... (..sounds like bubblewrap, tastes like chicken...)
-Put that band together soldier,,, (-and that's an order..)
metal heart, you aren't hiding, metal heart, you aren't worth a thing... I once was lost, but now am found, was blind but now I see... (CatPower)
I've got some buddies that are mechanics over there. If I lived on that side of town, I'd probably go there. But here in Tower we've got Stephens bikes, and (more importantly) Re-Cycle, so I'm good to go.
Actually the bass player for my forthcoming and ass-kingingest rockabilly band is a wrench monkey over there.
au contrare (contra-air? contrail?)
...well, maybe you caught them on a bad day,,,,
I initially wandered in with a need for tubes and tires for a twenty-some odd year old Nishiki CitySport (totally outdated bike,,,) and the guys were like my new bestest buds,,,,-and I was buying the cheapest tires and tubes they had,,,-cause that's what I could afford... AND it was like, a little past closing time,,, and repair dude behind the counter (who was trying to determine the tire size, without the rim being there) was like, in no hurry, and even showed me some pretty snarkin' new Trek Rail (basically a sweeeeet RatBike 3speed that looks like an old school fla-blak cruiser...)
Second visit, lined up for some spoke work to be done,,, another dude helped me set it up so that it was same day, (and repairs are going to be under twenty bucks... ---and homie slid me a couple of free window stickers when I asked if I could buy them... (?!)
Even today,,, Ska-dude was there again, (he looks a little like Jack Black,,, but it's a reach, and I could have been hallucinating from the ride next to the quarry,,,)
But, again, totally cool, very friendly, and no 'uppity t'all... (and believe me, I don't look like a charity case, ---and also far from looking like a High End customer,,, my pickup resembles an abandoned tetanus experiment (way not from the right side of the tracks.....sorry 'bout the oil stains in the pkg. lot..)
...I'd give them another try...
metal heart, you aren't hiding, metal heart, you aren't worth a thing... I once was lost, but now am found, was blind but now I see... (CatPower)
Tri-sport attitude
I bought a couple bikes at Tri-sport. They have good selection and knowledgable staff. But I think they have a bit of an "uppity" attitude, like they treat their "cool bike enthusiast" customers with more regard than joe average.
It's good to know they moved, there's not a lot of bike stores I'm aware of.
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