"I put a new bike on lay-buy at Rundle Street "Euride" last week, but when receiving all my paperwork, it was a cross between the Euride documents and Mega Bike documents. The membership tag I also received at "Euride" was a…"

"Think franchise?  I suspect that is the more likely scenario.  And knowing Claude he may be the master franchisee (bringing 3 stores in with him) for either SA or possibly another State."

"Some sense in this discussion at last. I see it as a very sensible and positive move in an overcrowded market"

"I'm not sure if we are talking semantics in language (take over may imply some nature of unwanted force?) but you most certainly can buy a private company, private companies have shares and shareholders. Share can be sold, new shares can be…"

"Similar experience when dealing with Claude. Took my bike in for a fitting as I have neck and back issues and no matter what I told Claude about how I can't stretch my neck up, he insisted that I had to be like a jockey on the bike, long and…"

"I should point out that you can only 'take over' a publicly listed company with shares and shareholders."

"Just like an online store.  If people abandon the LBS and shop online for cheap bargains, then the Local Bike Shop is going to become the Local Bike Supermarket and one-on-one service is what may disappear first. "

"I have never had any probs with Mega bike"

"Great, you'll be able to walk into their store and not get any help!"

"EuroBúnníngs"

"So funny, did the same to me on my 1st bike which was too small, sold me shoes he later asked me "where the heck did you get these from, they are terrible" and than set me up so wrong, he accused me of changing posts and seat as no way on…"

"the 'Bunnings' of bike stores is forming?"

"Hmmm. I'm just putting 2 and 2 together here. Conspiracy theories follow. Given that Euride is owned by some particularly powerful/rich people, I would not be surprised if they started gobbling up stores left, right and center. "

"Chris: Mount your Ayups under the stem using a modified helmet mount.. very concealed and discreet.... heres a post i put up over on weight weenies showing…"

":) He missed out on the sale of the second bike to a rival store started by one of his previous staff members. Got him back in the end."

"Hang on. It was different yesterday. They've just changed that. So things really are different. Yesterday Bike Station and Mawson Lakes were listed as Euride Stores."