Originally Posted by
jefnvk
So, anyone with a little self-motivation can learn to refurb a bike, including scouring the internet for the proper parts, completely ripping it apart, running cables, tuning derailleurs, making sure they have the correct brake pads, cleaning up rust, changing out tires and spokes, but you know the person putting the bikes together at Wal-Mart (and it takes scant little knowledge to put a bike together from a box) doesn't have the capability to do so properly? That logic doesn't work. If they are capable of refurbing a CL find, they are surely capable of noticing and fixing anything wrong with a BSO.
The question is not if the Wal-Mart employee Could, but whether s/he Did.
Judging from what some of us have seen ... the answer would be "No."
On the other hand, one who deliberately did that learning, would be more capable whether s/he worked at Wal-Mart of shopped on CL.
Originally Posted by
jefnvk
I mean, I assembled furniture when I worked at Office Max. I had no training, I wasn't a furniture expert, but it is not as if it is a complicated procedure.
Did your desks have suspension and dual derailleurs?
