Originally Posted by
kickstart
My mechanic is lazy, unreliable, cranky, sometimes bodges things up, and often orders the wrong part, but there's nothing I can do about it as he has gotten under my skin.
That's mine as well. I've been without a bike for months at a time before when he's started to rebuild the wheelset, gotten frustrated and just set things aside. Right now he's building up my wife's bike with a frame and parts that were bought a minimum of a year ago. If he keeps up his current build speed, the build itself will only take ~2-3 weeks (after sitting on it for a year) which might be a record for him. If I didn't have to look at him every day in the mirror, I might say some more nasty things about him.
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Bikes: 1996 Eddy Merckx Titanium EX, 1989/90 Colnago Super(issimo?) Piu(?), 1990 Concorde Aquila(hit by car while riding), others in build queue "when I get the time"