Bicycle Shop---last minute TRADITIONAL Christmas gift

Where has the traditional gift gone????

Is it still alive and well?????????

I am going to say YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They are still out there---yesterday at work, while finishing up a meeting on customer service I asked the employees what the top 10 selling gifts were all time.

Answers as followed--

Iphone

Nintendo

Ugly Christmas sweater

Socks

So I stopped them and I said think bigger, think further back in time..

Atari--one person said, he was my age 44.---Good answer I said. But not in top ten.

Radio flyer wagon, slinky, yo-yo, slinky, chemistry set--were from way back when. games where you had to put in effort and you had to get off the couch....Are those gift telling us something, hint hint. 

But what was striking was no one said a bicycle--

Yet, on a Esquire top gifts of all time a BMX bike made the list---1982 hottest item.

As I look over the list electronic item after item takes the cake--but the bike is very cool to see.

So as we look back and look to the present(no pun, but good timing) may be a bicycle is the gift that keeps on giving all year around--Like Clark Griswolds jelly of the month club.

Three shopping days left---give the gift a bike, a bicycle, cruiser, road bike, cycle cross, TT bike and I know the person whom received it will enjoy that gift 365 days till next holiday season.

I am a evangelist of local bicycle shops--they offer more than bikes. They offer friendship, community involvement and kids and adults alike can ride with them on group events. 

So it is not tooooooooooooooooooooo late to hit them up---give the gift of tradition, your kids will think you are weird, as if they don't already--but they will thank you for giving a gift that no other kid received. 

Bicycle shops -- the art and craft of putting customers first.

Here we are just 12 days till the big jolly man comes down the chimney..

But I want to talk about the traditional gifts, the gifts that have been placed under the tree for years, centuries even. 

The one gift that seems to test father time is a present of 2 wheels.

I have been raving and ranting on for years about the importance of giving the gift they will use over and over--not until they are bored.

A bicycle is that gift, we are living in  society that is boooooooming in the cycling scene--not just the road bike or cycle cross, but mountain biking is back and in full force.  Commuting  to work is in, riding to the bus stop; loading the bike on the front rack and riding to work is fun and easy --plus it saves on gas.

I thoroughly enjoy my local bicycle shop--above is a simple picture describing the image that takes place--putting customers first.

Here they are around back giving the customer their knowledge, their passion and not afraid or shy of taking care of the customer after the sale has been rang up.

So with Christmas here in a few--stop buy your local bicycle shop.

Visit them and see and feel the zest......