Originally Posted by
sinikl
I'm not Scrod, nor am I a shop owner, but none of the shops around here have given me static about showing up with doofy gold-anodized parts (it's kind of my "theme" lately) I found online and asking for labor. More likely, I get "I didn't know this was even available in gold-anodized" [me:that's because everyone else has enough good taste not to want it... them: probably.]
I hear you. But I would probably be showing up with parts that they sell in their shop for more money minus the frameset which they don't sell. But as long as I'm paying for their time I guess they won't care too much. I'm sure they make the bulk of their money off the people that walk in off the street and buy a $500 hybrid bike and leave with helmet, pump, lights, mirrors, bottle cages etc and I see those people every time I'm at the shop