Originally Posted by
Spire
Either way, its pretty poor of the LBS not to at least TELL you that they substituted parts. I would probably avoid taking my bike back there if I could avoid it.
Agreed, should the LBS's action have been an intentional means of removing an in-stock item from inventory rather than ordering the correct part. A competent mechanic could easily make such an error if he were over-confident in his chainring knowledge. May not have told because they may not have realized the error