Well, the shop is no longer new, it has been open more than a year, perhaps two. But it is new for me--RX Bike Sports and Fitness!
I usually went by before opening heading to a rendezvous, or on the opposite side of the busy street nearing home on my return at the end of a ride, so I did not actually stop by until a few months back. When I did, I was pleasantly surprised that it was not just a "Specialized" shop but seems to have a decent variety of components. They had a carbon fork with a lot of clearance for a road/gravel bike that looked like a potential replacement for the 15 yr old Reynolds Ouzo Pro fork on my titanium travel bike.
They have a full-time mechanic who looked like he knew what he was doing. And one sales staff. Upstairs, there is an exercise studio with trainer bikes all set up. And there is a framed certificate from the Guinness Book of World Records certifying his end-to-end Japan cycling record. I just checked it out and bought a tube for my tires. Last Friday I went back and bought some tires for the upcoming Okayama 1200 ride. I thought it was a lot closer to my house than, say, Nalshima, or a Y's shop, or Positivo. Again, I was pleased with the choices. They generally seemed ... like the kind of tires that would be chosen by someone who wanted to ride a long way, fast. And there were plenty I had not seen nor tried before (Challenge, Goodyear, Donnelly, and more, as well as standards such as Conti 5000). And plenty of them were marked down to a price I consider reasonable.
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