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Old 03-23-09 | 07:17 PM
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Originally Posted by cavernmech
Firstly if you take your bike to a shop...never expect anything to be free. If you are a regular customer and the shop is relatively quiet then maybe a freebie is a reasonable expectation. And if you can take the wheel off a bike, remove cog and lockring, grease said lockring and cog, tighten lockring and cog and then put the wheel back on the bike with proper chain tension in 2 seconds, you sir are the fastest bike mechanic in the known universe.
Well, see, there's the problem right there. I rarely take my bikes to shops - I'd rather own the tool and do it myself. 2 seconds was an obvious exaggeration - 10 ~ 15 min is more like it.
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