Buying a bike from Super Mart X..

"...the process of buying and maintaining [a bike] is worlds away from buying lawn furniture, which is exactly how the mass merchant treats the process." Our X-wrench Colin sent me this article (thanks!) Did you know 13 million bikes were sold through mass merchants in 2003? The authors got to wondering how does the average consumer go about buying these bikes, and then went on to find out first hand. Hilarious.