In the places where I've lived in Canada, April, May and June are the worst times of year to take your bicycle to the shop. 6+ weeks to have the bicycle looked at is not unusual. And the trouble was that most of the shops were ski shops in the winter and cycling shops in the summer so they made the switch to cycling shops in late March/early April ... prior to that they didn't want to know about bicycles.

So ... usually anytime I got work done, I got it done after the July long weekend.