[johnbryanpeters]

https://www.nj.com/bergen/2021/10/body-found-inside-offices-of-high-end-bicycle-retailer-cops-say.html

UPDATED: Suspect in custody after employee found dead at Jamis headquarters

NORTHVALE, N.J. (BRAIN) — Prosecutors say a suspect is in custody and a homicide investigation is underway after a body was found at the Jamis/G. Joannou Cycle headquarters here.

www.bicycleretailer.com

 

[stevew]

jamis is high end...

 

[Changleen]

jamis is high end...

We live in a highly rarified atmosphere… Easy to loose sight of that.

 

[Westy]

We live in a highly rarified atmosphere… Easy to loose sight of that.

Yeah, I grew up dreaming of being able to own a bike from an actual bike shop and not something from Kmart.

12 year old me would be pretty exctatic to see what bikes I have in my basement, really disappointed in everything else.

 

[6thElement]

really disappointed in everything else.

12 year old you wasn't into desiccated crack baby corpses?

 

[Westy]

12 year old you wasn't into desiccated crack baby corpses?

More into candied crack babies. I've lost my sweet tooth with age.

 

[mykel]

jamis is high end...

They have a couple of interesting bikes.
A kid I have ridden with has a Hardline, and it is a nice well spec'd bike.
After a quick spin I was quite impressed; it was not what I was expecting.

 

[ALEXIS_DH]

jamis is high end...

My road bike is a Jamis. You are hurting me, man

 

[Changleen]

I seem to remember they had what would probably be described today as a downcountry full-sus frame that was pretty good looking a decade or so ago, kind of on the burly end of XC. Can’t recall the name…

 

[ALEXIS_DH]

Yeah, I grew up dreaming of being able to own a bike from an actual bike shop and not something from Kmart.

Same thing.
I remember one vacation in the States I was browsing some magazines at some sports store... and saw a magazine with a review of a $3,600 carbon/kevlar bike (Circa 1995, me being 11).
I was like totally blown away in the awesomeness of that bike.

My mom bought me a "made in USA" Kmart bike, that I brought back home with me.

 

[rideit]

What, no ‘Best’ back then from Peter (Mongliardi)? I guess those were late 90’s/early oughts?

 

[ALEXIS_DH]

What, no ‘Best’ back then from Peter? (I guess those were late 90’s/early oughts?)

That was 1995, I wasnt even 12.
There were 1 or 2 bike shops in Lima, I didnt know they existed and my mom/dad were completely oblivious to $1000 bikes.
I got an aluminum DiamondBack in the states in 97, and then a dual suspension aluminium Mongoose with some elastomer rockshox fork in 2000 from some big box sports store in new york... and I was hot stuff in my hood when I brought it back.

I got my first real bike shop bike at age 17, in 2001... I was already in college in the States and got a GT Agressor.

Pd. I forgot. I got a sweet aluminum argentinean-made bmx race bike, with sweet plastic covers over the wheels, presta valves and pirelli tires at age 7, 1990. That was my first bike. I think that was a bike shop bike my mom got in Argentina. A car run over my bike, shortly after. Mom didnt get me another bike until I was like 11, which was promptly stolen.

 

[jdcamb]

I had a Jamis Dragon. Full first gen XTR. Seatpost and everything. It was a cool bike.

 

[johnbryanpeters]

https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/two-lower-township-cops-accused-of-theft-of-bikes-in-cape-may/article_6be8dc40-3697-11ec-81e1-8767b6088069.html

 

[CBJ]

I had a Jamis Dragon. Full first gen XTR. Seatpost and everything. It was a cool bike.

When I lived in Florida they had a copy XC full suspension design using a Turner design that was cool and I used to think the 853 Reynolds frame was nice. That was the 90s.

 

[DaveW]

My road bike is a Jamis. You are hurting me, man

Counterpoint;
You ride a Jamis road bike.
You are hurting yourself most of all.

 

[JohnE]

Years ago when I was a shop monkey I rode a Jamis Dragon. That was a bad scoot for the time...

 

[stoney]

jamis is high end...

Compared to Huffy, etc. They are second/third tier, but light years above Walmart brand.

Jamis® Portal® 130mm Trail Bike

With 3VO’s unique virtual pivot characteristics, we combine the efficiency of a hardtail with a precisely-controlled active suspension. This is how every suspension bike should ride.

www.jamisbikes.com