October is the worst time to have your bike nicked. The 2010 stock is nearly out and we are still waiting for the 2011 stock to come. Anyhoo, my favourite bike shop was out of stock of my chosen new bike so to vanilla evans we come.
That's just it. Evans is very vanilla. The service though nice was vanilla; boys though cute-ish, were vanilla. Knowledge was ok, nothing to rave about. No whosh, bang, swoon feeling associated with this place. Well I guess not everyone can elicit a strong feeling. I just feel that if my bike was delivered to my favorite shop I would have been about 500 times more excited and re-enforced their idea of me being "totally mad". As it was I matched Evan's vanilla-ness with a equally vanilla reaction to having a super cool, as fast and as manly as you can get open frame girly bike to knock them boris bikes on their back.
I must say for such a "trust worthy" and "well known" chain, my bike wasn't best built and the front mud guard is wonkers (SO annoying when you look down and nothing is straight) and a bit's fallen off the back mud guard on delivery. But then I did find the cheapest, crappiest website on the land and got £100 off via their internet price promise so I guess I can't complain much.
It was just like expecting the world's most amazing hot fudge sundae with sparklers, belgium chocolate sauce, caramelised nuts, proper brownies and tuille in a bloody crystal glass with a nice long silver spoon whiles abercombi and finch boys fan you gently with ostrich fans and getting a plain walls vanilla ice cream instead. In a paper cup. With nary a flake in sight.
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