{"id":209,"date":"2005-07-19T12:32:31","date_gmt":"2005-07-19T19:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2005\/07\/18\/considering-a-motorcycle\/"},"modified":"2005-07-19T12:52:16","modified_gmt":"2005-07-19T19:52:16","slug":"bike-buying-stupidity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2005\/07\/19\/bike-buying-stupidity\/","title":{"rendered":"Bike buying stupidity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2003, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fisherbikes.com\">Gary Fisher Bikes<\/a> offered about 40 different bicycle models. Most available in 4 different frame sizes. In 2004, the line was about 20% different with 43 bikes offered. In 2005, they are offering <strong>58 different basic models<\/strong>; 1\/3 of their line has completely changed since last year.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that they ONLY sell mountain bikes<\/p>\n<p>Gimme a break with all this marketing crapola. I know that it&#8217;s all about going into a store and having the salesman put you in the bike that is &#8220;for you&#8221;. It gives you that warm fuzzy feeling that allows you to plunk down three grand on a bike.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it&#8217;s all big business&#8230; If they sell one of every bike they make per year, there&#8217;s (58*4*$2000) $5 million dollars in retail sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2003, Gary Fisher Bikes offered about 40 different bicycle models. Most available in 4 different frame sizes. In 2004, the line was about 20% different with 43 bikes offered. In 2005, they are offering 58 different basic models; 1\/3 of their line has completely changed since last year. It should be noted that they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}