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05-05-09, 09:55 PM
I am building my first frame - lugged, steel - and am at the point where I need to find someone to do the head tube reaming and facing for me. The required tools are just too expensive at this time. I went to a local bike shop in Seal Beach and they are able to do the work, but I didn't like the reception I got there. With no customers in the shop and no work being done when I came in, I was told that they could do the work, but I would have to make an appointment and it would be 8 days before they could get around to it. I don't know if I just made a bad impression or what, but if someone walked into my shop when I was idle and wanted something done that could generate a little income in these slow times, I wouldn't tell them to come back in 8 days. If I had been shopping for a bike would I have been given the same answer? Anyway, I'm looking for a framebuilder in So. Cal., not too far from Long Beach, who can do some frame prep for me. Know of anyone? Gary