OUR LOCATION
We're located at 1362 Asheville Road, Waynesville, North Carolina 28786. It's on the Northeast side of downtown Waynesville, one block North of the Board of Education, where North Main turns into Asheville Road in what was formerly the Suburban Gas building. Click for MAP & DIRECTIONS.
HOURS
Our winter business hours are Mon-Fri 2:30-6:30PM. Occaisionally those hours wander a bit so call just to be sure.
CONTACT
RollsRite Bicycles 1362 Asheville Road, Waynesville, NC 28786 828-276-6080 rollsrite@bellsouth.net
ABOUT US
RollsRite Bicycles is located in Waynesville, North Carolina on the Southeastern edge of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, a few miles North of The Blue Ridge Parkway and 25 miles West of Asheville.
We're a small to medium size shop factory authorized to sell & service Fuji and SE Racing bikes. We provide expert service for most brands and our major suppliers, Action Bicycle USA and Quality Bicycle Products provide just about every part & accessory on the market.
We believe a leisurely ride around the block is every bit as important as the Assault on Mt. Mitchell or the Tour de Georgia and we have the bikes and expertise to accommodate either pursuit.
My mission as the owner, besides selling a few bikes, is to promote bicycling as a routine every day activity for regular folks, not just 'cyclists'. I've lived in Haywood County for over 35 years, started RollsRite Bicycles in 2001 in the garage of an old house near Highway 209, moved it to a funky building with a mean driveway in Clyde for a few years then to our present location a few miles away near downtown Waynesville.Some good reasons to buy a bike here are:
- You won't find a better bike at a better price. I encourage you to shop around.
- You'll get all the help you want deciding which bike will best suit your needs for the least amount of money, which ones won't, and why.
- You'll get all the time you want for thorough trial rides before you decide which bike is right for you.
- You'll get a bike that has been put together with care and precision, as if I were going to ride it myself.
- Adjustments are free, as often as you like, for as long as you own the bike.
- All of our bikes come with a solid warranty that covers parts and labor.
- We ride what we sell and know what these bikes are good for and what they're not
- We'll be here to take care of your bike.
FREE TUNE UPS!
Every new RollsRite bike includes free Minor Tune Ups for the first two years and free adjustments for life. I’ll adjust shifters, brakes, wheel hubs, headset and bottom bracket bearings & tire pressure as often as you want-with no charge.
What’s the Catch?
You have to be the original owner, bring the bike to our shop and possibly be without it for a day or two.
Parts, if needed, are not free. Minor wheel truing (adjusting the spokes) is included with the Minor Tune Up but not with free adjustments.
Crud and grunge removal is not free. The biggest problem with many of the bikes that come here for service is dirt, crud and corrosion which prevents the pieces and parts from doing what they're supposed to do. The Minor Tune Up includes washing the bike, cleaning the chain, gears, brakes and cables but if parts have to be removed for cleaning, and this is often the case, there's a fee for that.
Adjustments are useless if the working parts aren't reasonably clean. Keeping them clean can be a bit of a pain but deep cleaning them after the gunk has built up and bonded with the bike is nasty, tedious work and is not free.
Avoid this by keeping your bike clean and having regular tune ups.
Tune ups won't always fix everything, eventually other problems will develop, but regular tune ups will go a long way towards keeping small problems from becoming expensive and dangerous ones.
How can this be free?
It’s free because it’s important to me that the bikes I sell perform as they’re meant to, not just when new, but always. A well tuned bicycle makes you want to ride and the more you ride, the happier you get. Happy riders make good customers.
FUJI BIKES
Fuji has been making bicycles since 1899 and is a major player in the worldwide bicycle industry. Many of the top cycling teams in the world ride Fujis (Team Nurenberger, Mercury Cycling Team, Team Fuji, Subway). Check it out at Fuji Racing.When you cut through the hype and compare the features of equal models from other first class makers like Trek, Cannondale, Specialized, Giant, Marin, Iron Horse and others, you find the real differences to be not in overall quality, but in the selection and combination of components-the pieces and parts that make up a bicycle.
All of the quality brands use parts from the same manufacturers and then apply their own unique talents to put them together in combinations that they hope will appeal to us enough to make us want one.
Probably the most brand specific component is the frame, and while the performance of modern frames of equal value and intended purpose is very evenly matched between the major makers, Fuji is as cutting edge as they come and is recognized as such worldwide.
Nevertheless, even with all of the technology, expertise and experience that bikes share in common, they're not all the same. They all do it just a little differently, and the those differences, however seemingly slight, are what gives each brand it's own attitude, unique personality and appeal.
I can't say that Fuji is a better bike than others of equal pedigree, the good ones are all very good and the fierce competition for market shares keeps prices pretty close. But dollar for dollar, Fuji consistently manages to give a mix of components that is just one up from the next guy. Nothing major, but noticeable. If you're into it, you can verify this by pulling up the specs of bikes of similar purpose and price and comparing the pieces and parts and the relative merits of each. Links to other bike makers can be found on the Links page.
There's no shortage of really good bikes for a dealer to chose from. I sell Fuji bikes because I ride them, like them and believe them to be better bikes for the money than I've been able to find anywhere else. The Fuji America people that support me as a dealer, are good folks and stand solidly behind their product.
Check out my current inventory at Bicycles and the whole line on the FUJI website. If I don't have what you're looking for, I can usually have it here in just three or four days. Call or email with the details, and I'll check availability and get back to you promptly.
PRICES
You won't find a better price on a new Fuji bike. Show me a legitimate price from an authorized Fuji dealer and I can just about always beat it. That alone however, doesn't mean squat. Beating a good shop's price by a couple of bucks doesn't mean you're getting a good deal. A good deal is getting the bike that's right for you from a dealer who'll be there to help you take care of it and not paying any more than you have to. If you're looking at a certain model of a different brand, I encourage you to compare it to a similar Fuji model, first to see if one pleases you more than the other and second, to compare the features and price. My price includes thorough and careful assembly and setup, free adjustments anytime you need them and a Better than Factory Warranty.
IN STOCK
We don't have every bike in every size in stock at all times but any bike in the Fuji or SE inventory can ordered, prepped and ready to roll in about five days. Please call or email for current price and availability of the model you're interested in.
Fuji does not allow it's dealers to ship unassembled bikes to customers.
GUARANTEE
If there's a problem with any RollsRite bike I'll gladly resolve it to you're full satisfaction or refund your money. All new Fuji's come with the Factory Warranty as well as the RollsRite Warranty. For the fine print and all the nitpicky details, click on the underlined link.
SIZE
Bike sizes are all relative, relative to how it fits you that is. The size is usually specified as the distance from the center of the bottom bracket (where the front sprocket spindle goes through) to the top of the seat tube, expressed either as inches or centimeters. That tells you something about the size of the bike, but not everything, because bikes that measure the same there can, and do, vary a lot in their other proportions.
The distance from the seat to the handlebars (top tube), seat to pedals (seat tube), to name a couple. These affect how it fits you and what position it puts your body in.
The length of the bike (wheelbase) and the angles of the other tubes affect how the bike rides and handles. They're all set up differently, bikes of the same size and type can look the same, but one may fit you and one may not (blue jeans can be like that).
A bike that doesn't fit you, regardless of how nice or what a good deal it is, will never be any fun. The only way to be sure what's going to fit and feel right is to spend some time actually riding the bikes you're interested in. If you want to learn some basic guidelines and a bit of the science, go to the Links page and look for SIZING.
I RIDE
People often ask what I ride, expecting, I suspect, that I'll name the top of the line, SL-1 or Team Issue. Alas, that's not the case. Most of the time I ride a Newest 2.0 and it's great for the roads I ride. Before that it was a 2004 Absolute, a light & fast road bike with flat handlebars.
I tried Roubaix for awhile and it's a slick machine but it didn't like the unpaved roads I took it on and threatened to report me for bike abuse. Occaisionally I'll ride my 25 year old Peugeot PGN-10 road bike, a lower cost knock off of the famed PX-10 of Tour de France fame. It can be very quick and has true character but it gets wearisome on longer rides.
If I had extra cash that needed a home I'd give the CCR-1 a spin.
I've put a lot of miles on Crosstown. This is a commuter bike that just about anybody can ride anywhere, all day, every day. This is a great bike to ride a few miles to work every day. A need for more speed caused me to trade it for the Absolute.
For leisurely cruising the woods and trails of Western North Carolina, I used to ride a Monterey. It's a comfort bike, not a mountain bike, but it will act enough like one to get me by when I need it to. Many folks who bought a mountain bike would be happier on one of these. Now I ride a bike I built up from a Mount Fuji SL MTB frame, a high tech light & strong frame with carbon seatstays. It's a high dollar frame but I used parts I had that are several steps down from the ones spec'd for that bike.
I also keep a Sanibel 1.0 three speed classic cruiser with white sidewall tires, just because it's such a cool machine.
For an actual hard working mountain bike Nevada 1.0 or 2.0 impress me the most for their bang for the buck factor. Either one gladly does all I ask of it and more. Tahoe or Mount Fuji are slicker and more high tech but alas, they cost more. I haven't yet tried the new Tahoe 29er bikes.
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