I have worked on a few bikes, as it is the money I made flipping bikes over the past year that has given the financial means to purchase a new bike. I an not afraid to doing the mechanical set up, but am trying to weight the convenience of someone else doing it (and having them to go back to if something isn't right) vs my time in doing the setup and then any tweaking that might be needed.
Ben
Originally Posted by
kk4df
That's not a bad deal. It depends on how much you've worked on bikes in the past. If this is your first time setting one up, I might recommend sticking with your LBS. I think you will have to cut the stem, install the star nut in the fork tube, mount the fork properly, setup the brakes (including toe-in on these cantilever brakes), and maybe adjust your derailleurs. Make sure you're sure you can do all this properly. Oh, and grease in all the right places as you tighten things down so they don't bind up on you sometime down the road. Lots of stuff you need to do correctly.