Originally Posted by
LCI_Brian
Regarding the "do it yourself" comments - I know how to do and have the tools to do most bike repairs myself, but since I have a busy work and family life, sometimes it's a lot easier to take it to a shop you can trust rather than burning the time yourself.
If you're installing new components, this might be true. I can't see it being true for simpler things though. My experience with shop work is that some things that would take you an hour to do would require you to:
1) Drive to the shop (10-30 minutes)
2) Put in service request in the shops work backlog
3) Drive Home (10-30 minutes)
4) Wait for shop to get to your bike in their work backlog (2-7 days)
5) Drive back to the shop (10-30 minutes)
6) Pick up bike.
7) Drive back home (10-30 minutes)
All that driving back and forth is time you could have spent doing it yourself, plus, you're out of a bike for a couple of days. This is not a time saving measure. This is why so many people recommended learning to do things yourself.