cool bike shop: trek bicycle store, chattanooga, tn
While I was on vacation in the mainland (I live in Hawaii) I wanted to check out some actual Niner bikes. The local Niner retail store on Oahu doesn't actually stock anything. While in California I went to a store near sacramento that was listed on the Niner web site (http://ninerbikes.com/dealers) as having demo bikes, but when I got there all they had was a single frame hanging on the wall.
After we visited the aquarium in Chattanooga, TN, we wanted to find a health food store, for some particulars, and the one we found happened to be right next to the niner dealer in Chattanooga: Trek Bicycle Store (http://trekstorechattanooga.com/). This store is not actually owned by Trek, and they do carry other stuff, like Niner.
They had an Air 9 and an M.C.R. I finally got a chance to test ride a couple Niner bikes! It turned out that what they had there was perfect for me since I just bought an E.M.D. (the aluminum frame) and the Air 9 and M.C.R. are the equivilent in scandium and steel. They were exactly the bikes that I wanted to check out.
If you want to check out one of Niners full suspension or single speed models, I guess you're out of luck. But from my experience they've got *way* more stuff to check out than any other "Niner dealer" that I found. That is to say, they actually have demo bikes you can test ride.
Thanks Trek Bicycle Store!
