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I just came home with my new Electric Mint Mojito electric assist bike from Corning Bike Works. So absolutely pleased with the experience. Customer service is top notch. They held my bike until I had a hitch installed on my car, taught me now to attach the bike carrier, how to load my bike onto the carrier while assuring me throughout that it would be easy and quick. Guess what, it really was!!! Thank you, Margo and Tom, for helping me become a bike owner and rider again.
My "Go to place" for anything to do with bikes. My wife, also a Margo, rides a Trek three wheel recumbent and loves hers. My bike was my (now 50 year old) sons and I love it although it requires some attention, but is not one that would be first on anyone's list to steal. My wife's two wheeler is for guests to ride. Of if someone wants an 8 speed women's bike we can be accommodating.
More than happy to call Corning Bike Works (aka Margo & Tom) my LBS. I enjoy doing all my wrenching but I so enjoy all my trips to the store so much to stock up on stuff I need and stuff I don't need but must have. For me, it is the friendliness, warmth, laughs and stories we've shared over the years. I've bought a number of frames from Tom & Margo and eyeing another right now exactly as much as I need an 8th hole in my head. For much of the last decade, I have been away from home but I make it a point to stop in when I am back home to stock up on goodies. Tom and Margo do go the extra mile to find little things I need. Tom has helped me out in a pinch with a wrench or 2 (I hesitate to advertise this but for the fact that it highlights how much they'll stretch to be of service). Listen, stop by if you have a need for repairs, patch work, new frame, goodies, a chat about the area or want to marvel at their [humongous] cat.
Stopped in to add a bit of air to the tires after a 40 mile ride from Pennsylvania lined with confederate flags and was handed an air compressor line with the sarcastic comment "you do have a presta valve adapter?". I would have expected a bike shop to (at least) have a standard run of the mill floor pump handy... I almost never add reviews but the experience was fairly negative. The bicycle industry wonders why there is a diversity problem? ????
