Originally Posted by
capwater
1) If you pay people to put on new bar tape, then probably debugging and fixing your brake problem is beyond your level of mechanical expertise.
I didn't. I admit that my mechanical expertise is limited, but putting a bar tape on is something I'm perfectly capable of. Actually, I really like putting tape -- it's oddly satisfying.
However, I had a nasty crash the other day, so I rolled to the nearest shop I found and remembered hearing nice things about, and asked them to take a look at the bike, just to make sure everything is indeed unbroken, and that I won't kill myself on the way home. I left the bike there and went for a coffee, and when I got back, they already put a new tape (the one I had got ripped in the crash, but I planned replacing it at a later time)
Originally Posted by
capwater
2) Why do people who just paid to get a bike worked on (by an obvious dumb employee) seek advice on this forum on how to fix someone else's f*ck up? You just spent money, something isn't right so take it back and tell the shop to make it right.
I have no idea who's **** up is that. It could be that shop fault, which is 100km away, and I'm not going to drive to just to yell at them, when maybe someone else is to blame. I'll roll the bike into my LBS tomorrow, but if it's something I can fix myself today and still get an early spin tomorrow morning before the shop opens, all the better...