Done with LBS
07-03-07, 10:09 PM
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Pwnerer
Originally Posted by jaxgtr
My biggest complaint is when you have to replace a crank\bb and will need to buy a tool to pull it, but the the new new crank and bb take completly different tools. Now you have tools you will more than like never use again. I'd love to get a bike just to work on and learn on but don't want to waste money on tools I may never use again.
You accumulate a good amount of tools and the knowledge to use them. Kids come by, you fix their bikes, everyone is happy. Then once you buy the more expensive specialty tools, you need to do some barter to help offset the cost. It's only fair, right? Still everyone seems happy. After a while you start doing deeper study, perhaps even go to some classes, buy even more advanced pro quality tools. Your friends are amazed and may even offer a few bucks to get your work. It's cutting into your free time, so you accept. More offers for work come and you realize that to have the time to do all these jobs, you have to go full time.
Then you open a shop and everyone hates you for wanting to make a living at what you are good at.
07-03-07, 10:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Wordbiker
Yeah, I can relate.
You accumulate a good amount of tools and the knowledge to use them. Kids come by, you fix their bikes, everyone is happy. Then once you buy the more expensive specialty tools, you need to do some barter to help offset the cost. It's only fair, right? Still everyone seems happy. After a while you start doing deeper study, perhaps even go to some classes, buy even more advanced pro quality tools. Your friends are amazed and may even offer a few bucks to get your work. It's cutting into your free time, so you accept. More offers for work come and you realize that to have the time to do all these jobs, you have to go full time.
Then you open a shop and everyone hates you for wanting to make a living at what you are good at.
You accumulate a good amount of tools and the knowledge to use them. Kids come by, you fix their bikes, everyone is happy. Then once you buy the more expensive specialty tools, you need to do some barter to help offset the cost. It's only fair, right? Still everyone seems happy. After a while you start doing deeper study, perhaps even go to some classes, buy even more advanced pro quality tools. Your friends are amazed and may even offer a few bucks to get your work. It's cutting into your free time, so you accept. More offers for work come and you realize that to have the time to do all these jobs, you have to go full time.
Then you open a shop and everyone hates you for wanting to make a living at what you are good at.
I have enough other stuff pulling at any free time I have left.
07-03-07, 10:18 PM
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Pwnerer
07-04-07, 12:45 AM
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Originally Posted by Winter76
I found this site to be really good, and the layout is really nice:
https://www.utahmountainbiking.com/fix/
https://www.utahmountainbiking.com/fix/
+1
I think they're better than ParkTool's website - more thorough in explaining and illustrating things. Sure, some of the pictures are less refined, not taken in apro studio, but their sheer quantity, and the length to which they go to explain the steps involved, makes them superior. IMHO.
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