Magic Tricks

I fell in love with the bicycle elite playing cards when I first saw them at a penguin live mini convention and bought a bunch of them there and have been buying bricks ever since. I love the quality, how broken in they felt when you opened up the box, and the traditional cut. However, lately when I buy them I feel like they’re completely different cards. I don’t feel them as broken in as they used to be, and I think I got a batch with the traditional cut done very crudely—they hardly feel as they should. (They are still better than the bikes that you will purchase at the store, but they aren’t living up to the “elite” title anymore.) I hope this changes in the future; bikes own the market share of gaffs and gimmicks and you almost have to buy bicycle brand. If the quality continues to decline I’m going to have to change to a brand with better quality control.