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no they don't coogan, people who say they own boutique bikes only take them out on sunny days, and even then they can't larf, because you can't smile and look cool at the same time. Miserable is the look. or pouting.
I sometimes get it wrong and look miserable and pouting when i'm on one of my none boutique bikes or look happy when i'm boutiqued up.
It's so difficult knowing what look to pull on each type of bike. 🙂
I hope this thread has helped!
Not really.
Maybe I could get charliethebikemonger to make me some toptube stickers with instructions on. That way if I got confused I could just look down and seek the advice of someone in the trade.
What I don't understand is why something like a cotic is not considered boutique. You hardly get them in mainstream bike shops and to me 'boutique' = niche
Ooh, but are Boutique and Niche the same thing???
I think Anti-Boutique is the new Niche...
Bouniche?
Or Nichetique.
I may be wrong on your planet. On Earth, giant bikes are not of a higher quality than anyone elses. Earthly fact.
Really? I was having a look at an Apollo bike the other day. If you genuinely believe that Giant bicycles are not of higher quality then I suggest you visit your nearest branch of Specsavers, without delay.
I kind of think if anyone has ever heard of the bike you're riding, it's not boutique enough. 'Boutique enough' is a new concept I just invented to take some of the black and white thinking out of the whole boutique debate.
Under the overall concept of 'boutique enough', bikes can range from 'just boutique enough' at one end of the scale to 'much too boutique enough' at the other.
A Jones, for all its rarity and beardy weirdy heritage is somewhere in the middle, 'just about boutique enough in a dark cellar' if you like.
If I were to tell you what bikes I owned, you'd never of heard of them because they are all, without exception, 'much too boutique enough'.
Hopefully this'll help you frame the debate within more helpful parameters.
Wun...
Hollyhocks. 😡
The main purpose of boutique bikes is to make the buyer feel they are somehow superior to others; that their own choices and taste are more refined and discerning than the Common Herd.
So, person what buys boutique bikes = insecure impotent inadequate individual, basically. 😐
(Runs off to exchange bikes for bog-standard Spesh Rockhopper...)
elfin, make sure you wear you Naomi Klein "No Logo" T-shirt while you're at it to emphasize your utilitarian ideals.
I'm wearing a very exclusive top-quality Limited Edition BBB T-shirt right now. It's ok though I'm allowed to. 😀
But elfin, nobody knows what boutique means.
I was just starting to think a similar thing actually.
I'm suspecting that boutique means liked by elitist asshats who would shop at places like velo refined.
I'm glad my turner isnt considered boutique.
Googles velo refined.
Looks like they only sell plastic roadbikes or do they have a custom mountainbike frame builder in a shed out the back. 🙂
what if you've got a 10+ year old frame made by a boutique brand, but the decals have worn off, you deliberately leave it like that so only true aesthetes will recognise it, and when they mention it you say "Oh, this old thing?"
Understated-retro-boutique-sandbagging-niche****ery?
Or just laziness?
Stu, they'll only let you in the "showroom" by appointment. I'll bet their shop assistants are "consultants" too.
High level tossbaggery.
Stu, they'll only let you in the "showroom" by appointment.
I take it they wouldn't let you in then? 😉
Maybe you could wind them up by making appointments and not turning up. 🙂
isn't it the same fools that had poshbike on titnerweb, you know, 30 quid for a carbon reservoir cap for xtr brakes that's heavier than the originals 😆
Never been, never tried, never will.