CEO of a subscription-based bike sharing company talk shit about bikeshop, the place where you go to buy and own a bike. In LinkedIn too, i wouldn’t expect any other type of comment from CEO on there other than talking shit at their direct competitor or problem that didn’t really exists.
Can’t speak for anyone else, but I’ve never had this experience in any bike shop: Most places seem happy to get people into riding and are fine with a utilitarian outlook on cycling.
Same. I told them I wanted something casual and they had plenty of affordable options for me.
I guess if you’re a CEO, you might not deign those “commoner” shops worthy of your patronage. In which case, sure, you’re probably getting pedaled a fancy $10K carbon fiber racer from Snooty Rides ‘R’ Us.
Scott Murphy is so full of shit, his eyes are brown. This is exactly the bullshit I expect from a rent-seeking asshole CEO. He is literally marketing FUD in order to put subscription money in his pocket. This is one of the cases where you can determine the actual truth by assuming the opposite of what is being said. He beats on this trope of almost all bike shops being elitist when the exact opposite is true.
Notice how much he repeats that. This is called The Big Lie: repeat an extreme distortion of the truth enough times and people will internalize that distortion as true. There’s something that happens in our brains that causes this to work better with larger distortions rather than small lies.
