puchfinnland

Ive been hanging out at the LBS almost every day now for the last 2 weeks- got nothing else to do-waiting to head back to USA!

anyway-

I have laced up 4 wheels for him, one was odd, A cheap shimano wheel came in with instructions for a new rim and spokes,
I dont know why the client wants to waste the time lacing up this cheap hub in a new wheel.

remove the cassette, grind through the old spokes and clean it.
boss gave me a rim and told me the spoke sizes.
he trued it and then gave it back to put the tire back on......

well the tire fell right through the hoop.......
OH no!!!
I looked for the measurement on it and then medusa showed her face!!

AHHHHHHHH!! I yelled and covered my eyes
Its that terrible size, the size I thought i would never see in Finland!!!!
he said it is from a mercier
that figures!
he gave me a new 700 tire for it and said dont worry about it.

well its not my shop and it was not my mistake.
the client will most likely not get the brakes to work.
but I know where there is 27" new rims across town.

I think I give the boss th same hub for free so he dont need to strip down a new wheel

noglider 

You're heading back? Are you going to change your username?

lostarchitect 

...what?

ColonelJLloyd 

Seriously, Puch. You do not make it easy on us.

jimmuller 

That customer would be justified in being upset. If it were me I would not go back to that shop.

puchfinnland

Oh, I know the boss quite well.
He keeps all his clients happy, he has the best shop in Finland.
He is 64 and been doing it for over 30 years.
you cant judge the guy over one issue.

This week had 15 year old school boy in for "work training experence"
He was great- and had his own head and could think for himself, a funny kid.
You could toss him parts and he would figure them out by himself,
He swapped over a grip-shifters to trigger shifters without any assistance.
The boy has a MTB with 3 busted spokes and bent rear wheel.
On his last day, the boss told me to go outside and snip the rest of the spokes in his rear wheel!
Then he told the boy to go get us doughnuts.Man the boy was pissed!
But the Boss made good and had a new rim and spokes waiting in the shop and taught him to lace and true it...well it was almost sucessful...
the kid got most of the spokes correct but needs a bit of help
Then the boss trued it and sent him out the door happy.
He was a nice kid,I heard he is an orphan, hope to see him again


I also saw the boss give a 500 euro discount on a 1500euro frame last week- the clients frame broke due to fatigue.

Another funny thing-
we had a custom carbon build bike in with a broken hub where the spoke hooks into it-low spoke count and flat spokes.
Boss replaced them with a new pair of rims and said it was warranty-no questions asked.
Odd thing is we lost the clients contact-the slip must have fallen off the bike in the shop.
he spent 3 hours looking through his records to match up the owner with this bike based off of the measurements!
most all our bikes are custom builds and high end.

Im building a new bike from the frame up
- Rohloff
-2 days now, all new parts and it is not easy as parts dont always fit and you got to go back to the parts room to look for something that will work.
I tried 3 cranksets, 2 bottom brackets, and now the chainline is perfect.
I laced the wheels which are very oddly laced-rohloff specs say 2 crosses and the leading spokes are oddly spaced on the hub
This is a winter bike build-studded tires,fenders,lights,real discs.

For some odd reason the boss sort of finances peoples bikes
its hard times now a-days and sometimes people just dont have the funds for a new-build bike
but we have the frames in stock and it keeps us busy.

We are going to photograph a lot of 90's framesets next week to be sold off.
I have seen at least 2 columbus slx framesets in the collection-none for me.
one is a TT frame

lostarchitect 

Don't take this the wrong way, it's not meant to be rude. Is English your second language? I have a hard time following your posts.

fender1

if'n fgrtest!

noglider 

So do I, sorry to say.

I think you said the shop owner told you to put a 27" rim on but the customer needed a 700c rim. Or maybe the choice was your mistake? Or was the choice of the tire size the mistake?

The Rohloff evokes more questions than the wheel story. I don't think I want to ask.

puchfinnland

dyslexia- plus typing in the dark after everyone else is asleep.
I just fixed the above post-hope it makes you happy.

No the boss brought me the wheel.

the rohloff-
A client wants a winter bike and requested a Rohloff- nothing strange about that.
fitting a rohloff hub is not straight forward- they have special requests.
135mm spacing, difficult cable routing, chainline issues, spoking issues.
difficult to mount the fender stays around the shiftbox -and still have it quick release.
disc spacing is different then normal.

pastorbobnlnh 

Puch is also suffering from a lack of sunlight. Many of us born and raised in the mid Atlantic States, or who have lived there or further south most of our lives, find it hard to adapt to the drastic shortening of days this time of year. Even after 11 years here in NH, I still find it a challenge. I can't imagine what Puch experiences in Finland.