Outspokin Bike Shop, Woodstock, Georgia
As the people who see me a lot will know, about a year ago a friend of mine nearly killed me by taking me Mountain Biking at Blankets Creek. I don’t know if it was the endorphins from the near death experience, but I was hooked. Oddly enough I don’t blog about cycling much for some reason. I guess it is because I would rather spend my time riding than blogging.
After borrowing and breaking two of my friend’s bikes, I decided it was time to get my own. I purchased a Specialized Rock Hopper from Outspokin Bikes in Woodstock, GA. I have been riding a couple of times a week on average for almost a year now. Now I take my friends out to the trails and try to kill them.
Anyway, this post is supposed to be a post about Outspokin. As much fun as Mountain biking is, some days I just don’t have the time in my schedule to drive the half hour across town to the trails, so I wanted to get a road bike. This way I could just take off from the house and ride. I went up to Outspokin and talked to Josh, who showed me through the different price points, and talked about the different frames, components, etc. They really know their stuff.
In the end I found a bike I liked (Scott Speedster S20), but they couldn’t get it in my size anymore for this model year. They ended up making me a good deal on a Scoot Speedster S10, the next model up from the one I liked. They did this just because they wanted to keep me as a customer. Which is probably the biggest thing I like about Outspokin, the way the treat their customers. They create a sense of community through great customer service, much the way all business was conducted prior to the invasion of the big box retailers.
Outspokin is on Main Street in Historic Woodstock, and in my opinion you won’t find a better shop in our area. Check them out.
July 17th, 2008 at 10:16 am
I got my mountain bike at Outspokin right after Christmas, and I couldn’t be more pleased with them. They really do know what they’re talking about, and they were really good at “dumbing down” the bike geek verbiage so I would understand what they were talking about.
One thing I really think is cool is that when you buy a bike from them, they will adjust it for you for free for a year. I’ve had them adjust my brakes and shifting several times. Each time, they’ve seemed glad to see me, and they got started right away on getting my bike fixed up.
I bought street tires for my mountain bike recently, delaying my need/want of a road bike, but when that time comes, I’ve already decided that I’m going to Outspokin to buy it.