This here...is quite a bike.

Yesterday (8/23/15) we had a very successful Giant Bike Demo at Camel's Back Park, with many riders getting out on multiple bikes. Thanks to "Giant Demo Driver" Brad Pastir and everyone who showed. 

The surprising revelation of the day: Most people who thought they wanted a 5.5" travel Trance Advanced, and then rode a Trance and a 6.3"-travel Reign in secession, came away saying, "Well, the Reign pedals just as well with more travel...it's overkill for here [in the Boise foothills], but that's the bike I want." And guess what? No one was missing 29" wheels. All day. 

To each their own, 29-inch wheels make a ton of sense to a lot of people and on a lot of terrain, but if you have yet to try out 27.5, we think you owe it to yourself. Luckily, both models will be part of our in-store demo fleet very soon.  

Absolutely DO NOT try to insult the
Justice League right now, Drunk Aquaman

As for the "Stories" part of this Stories-post, I don't have a picture of the guy, because when he arrived the queue was substantial and we were busy getting people out on bikes, but let me paint a picture for ya. Imagine it's about 8:30am on a smoky Sunday and the Giant truck is posted up at the end of 9th street; the backside of Camel's Back. As we're unloading bikes, a man stumbles out of the woods with a duffel bag. He's quite fashionable with some designer jeans, a button down shirt, and suit-style vest. Problem is, he's not fit, neither the shirt nor the vest are buttoned, and he's having trouble negotiating how to get over one of the least formidable wooden fences I've ever seen. 

It takes him a handful of minutes but eventually he makes it over to the demo area to start chattin us up about bikes. At least, I think that's what he though he was doing. We fielded a barrage of questions relating to what we were doing setting up shop near his hallowed pond in the first place....until a green cab pulled up. Don't know if this was pre-arranged or what because dude didn't have a cell phone. He throws his bag in the trunk, slaps his face to dust off his beard, asks us for a light [that we didn't have] and away he goes. Weirdest thing I've seen in a while, but "too weird to live, too rare to die," I guess.

The Liv bike demo is next week, Monday the 31st. Hope to get all the ladies out for that one. Call us at 208/336-3854 to reserve your bike ASAP.