I searched and did not find this posted elsewhere. In light of another thread about Rogan and Austin, I didn't think I should post this there. Austin is not just weird, it's full blown liberal crap.



Lance Armstrong's Texas bike shop cuts ties with Austin police.

Shop will no longer purchase, re-sell or service police-issued Trek bikes.

Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong's bike shop in Austin, Texas, is cutting ties with local police.

Mellow Johnny's Bike Shop will no longer purchase, re-sell or service police-issued Trek bikes, even though the City of Austin had already greenlighted the request, due to "the current evaluation of community policing in Austin."

Businesses can no longer be non-participants in the communities they serve," Mellow Johnny's in Austin said in a statement. "We chose what we think will do the most to suture these divides and place our community on the right side of history. We have had to make these choices before when we felt companies whose products we sold put kids at schools at risk of violence. We lost sales due to this choice."

The store had previously cut ties with Vista Outdoor over its connection to the National Rifle Association.

Despite its latest decision, Mellow Johnny's said its shop is not "anti-police."

"We do believe our local police force will protect us from the very threats we are receiving right now," Mellow Johnny's said in the statement.


Mellow Johnny's opened in Austin in 2008. There is another Mellow Johnny's in Fort Worth, Texas, under different management, the Fort Worth Star Telegram reported.

Read Mellow Johnny's full post here.

Link to Story

Here is a copy and paste from their facebook page:

Dear Austin

In the context of the current evaluation of community policing in Austin, we have decided to no longer purchase, re-sell, and service police-issue Trek bikes and accessories under a City of Austin RFP the shop was previously awarded.

We regret not publicizing our decision before it was presented by others on social media. It's difficult in these times to balance the needs of a business and a community. Our entire employee group was engaged in this dialogue and we delved deep into our community to understand how we could best do our part to keep our customers safe and this city moving in the right direction. These are certainly trying times and we understand people will object to any decision made along these lines.

Businesses can no longer be non-participants in the communities they serve. We chose what we think will do the most to suture these divides and place our community on the right side of history. We have had to make these choices before when we felt companies whose products we sold put kids at schools at risk of violence. We lost sales due to this choice. We also saw our former vendors later divest of holdings and we've returned to selling these products. We will live with the choices our customers make if they want to buy bikes and bike products somewhere else.

We are committed to the city of Austin and the community of cyclists that we serve every day.

We are not anti-police. We do believe our local police force will protect us from the very threats we are receiving right now.

We wish this entire community peace and progress and togetherness at the conclusion of these trying times. And we intend to be a part of the discourse, struggle, and growth for Austin, as we have since we opened our doors in 2008.

#rideyourbike

BTW you remember Lance Armstrong, he was stripped of his titles for cheating by doping.
Yeah, Mr Righteous goody two shoes, Lance Armstrong. Up yours Lance. I hope you financially fail from this choice.

Make sure you or your families ever call the police for help again for any reason. Problem solved.

Austin, TX, we want to be like Seattle.

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We regret not publicizing our decision (on social media...) before it was presented by others on social media.

'Lance' and Mellow Johnny's can go 'sit & twist' on a seat post!

How shamefully gross.

Austin used to be a nice place, now it belongs in PNW.

Eff em

Hey Lance! You DOPING sunuvabitch!

Just another disgraced "has been" trying to get another 15 minutes. Probably couldn't figure out how to set up a bike for people with two nuts any way...

I hope they get robbed and call the cops but the cops don't show up.

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Despite its latest decision, Mellow Johnny's said its shop is not "anti-police."

"We do believe our local police force will protect us from the very threats we are receiving right now," Mellow Johnny's said in the statement.

Oh, the ticket-punchin' white suburban blase sense of entitlement. What blows my mind is that they don't even know how condescending they are. Really.

I can see it now

bike store firebombed in a drive by act of terror

police took 30 minutes to respond

ha ha

talking about being brain dead...

Good Lord. Thugs don't care about his shit, he'll still get looted and torched no matter what stupid shit he says he thinks will help him. Young criminals and thugs LOVE bicycles, they ride in on one stolen bike, torch the bibycle store, and ride home back to supper at mamas house on a new, more expensive model. Wash, rinse, repeat.

May this shop go down in a death spiral and everyone involved in this business end up homeless.

BTW I am really offended by that bit about supporting the local PD because they will continue to protect that shop. This is nothing more than a decision to be "politically correct" and appease the BLM knuckleheads while telling the Austin PD to stuff it.

No loss to me. I wouldn’t do business with that shitbird armstrong for any reason. Fuck him. Cheating Bastard.

Seems Lance Armstrong has never been a person of honor. This is merely another example of such.

He's an amoral dick. If he had any shame at all, he would have gone to live in the deepest backwoods of Alaska and would never again be heard from. He should die alone in the wilderness and his carcass should be raped by bears and then eaten by them.

Trek should pull their bikes from his shop.

Screw Lance Armstrong and this bike shop. I left a Google Review voicing my displeasure. I’m sure it’ll be taken down any day now. This cancel culture politically correct pandering to a vocal minority of people is ridiculous.

Wow, they're gettin' pounded in the ass on facebook:
Johnny's buttholeatorium

they posted this crap: