Originally Posted by
caloso
I prefer to work on my bike rather than take it to the LBS. I tell myself that I'm too impatient to wait for the shop to do it. And yet, for months I've had new cables, BB, brake pads, bar tape, etc., sitting in a bin on my workbench, waiting for me to get around to the mid-winter tear-down/rebuild.
I'm guilty of this too.
I still have a pair of new Kool Stops sitting in the packages for my commuter. It needs new wheels badly enough that I just put some ancient Shimanos on the front. The pads are junk and the rims are almost trashed. I figure I might as well kill both and hope the current setup lasts long enough for me to find out what's up with my future commute (and therefore what wheels to build to replace these).