New bike store near Porter Square, Cambridge

[lentower.livejournal.com]

New bike store near Porter Square, Cambridge
Open a week.

She's knowledgeable.
Only repairs & services bicycles she sells.
Slowly building her inventory.

http://www.bicyclebelle.net

Comments

[ron_newman]

The store is in Somerville (though very near the Cambridge line)

[lentower.livejournal.com]

Cool to offer this help,
but it's also clear from the address on their web site.

[ron_newman]

I posted that only because you have 'Cambridge' in the subject line.
Specifically, it's at the corner of Beacon and Oxford streets.

[lentower.livejournal.com]

sigh.

[pklemica]

I can't even begin to understand why you appear to be trying to shoot down helpful facts here. Not everyone's gonna click through to the website.

[lentower.livejournal.com]

This trivia that the shop is actually in Somerville is only important to a person,
if they want to visit a bike shop near Porter Square, Cambridge.

If they do, they will click through.

So posting it here is not helpful. Just clutter.

It be fair more useful to those who don't click through, to say something about the shop.

E.g. this shop specializes in bikes and accessories for urban street riding.
Not recreational bicycles.
Not mountain bicycles.

[pklemica]

Yeah ok, this is actively offputting. You may want to consider how your actions affect the promotion of this store before digging yourself in further here.

Look, you posted on a Somerville-based discussion group. If anything, mentioning that it is in Somerville defends the post being made to the community, which is NOT purposed for Porter Square, Cambridge. Moreover, people can comment with whatever they want to, they have no requirement to add helpful information to your promotional post.

[lentower.livejournal.com]

I don't agree with what you posted.
We obviously have very different views of the world, the Internet and livejournal forums.

FTR, I have no interest in this shop, so I'm not "promoting" it. I'm unlikely to buy anything there.

It's a new store that could be of use to people who live near Davis Square, which is on average, less than a mile away.

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

and when I did click through to it, I found it was not fully baked.

[courtney o'keefe (from livejournal.com)]

Is it common for someone to only work on the bikes they sell?

[elements.livejournal.com]

Since she's only selling specialty bikes, I think it makes sense - she might be willing to work on the same model she sells even if the person didn't buy from her. Also folks with those bikes sometimes have a harder time finding repair shops that know what to do with their bikes, so she could be reserving her repair hours for people who might not have as many other options (since this shop is definitely meeting a growing niche need).

[ron_newman]

What comment was deleted?

[lentower.livejournal.com]

Had the same off-topic star trek gif.

[lentower.livejournal.com]

The poster is obviously a Troll.

He has posted quite a few off-topic taste-less posts in this thread,
now deleted.

And has reminded me of why I seldom use live journal anymore,
& why most people I know have moved elsewhere.

[wobblymusic.livejournal.com]

That explains how you missed my post in late May (http://davis-square.livejournal.com/3203192.html) about this store. Ha-ha!

[lentower.livejournal.com]

Nothing wrong with an update, with more information.

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

spam.