Dont know if it’s Jobs Thread or Shop lulz content.
Last day at the shop is today. I’m booked solid with customers who won’t let anyone else touch their bikes.
Also, I need to build a home shop. So many texts/phone calls/emails asking where I’m going or if I’ll work on their bikes from home. Many have said they’ll follow me to the new shop without my request or anything.
Best thing is they’re all the high end customers. Should be good.
Feels good.
Yeah, it’s about 5 seconds per spoke. You literally just rotate a handle one rotation. Whoever told you was either extremely lazy or somehow very bad at using a spoke cutter.
Many people have only experienced the Hozan tool, which takes a lot more time than a Morizumi or Phil (and their clones).
[quote=motorbacon]Dont know if it’s Jobs Thread or Shop lulz content.
Last day at the shop is today. I’m booked solid with customers who won’t let anyone else touch their bikes.
Also, I need to build a home shop. So many texts/phone calls/emails asking where I’m going or if I’ll work on their bikes from home. Many have said they’ll follow me to the new shop without my request or anything.
Best thing is they’re all the high end customers. Should be good.
Feels good.[/quote]
HY dude.
Another good point. If you’re building or servicing oddball wheels all the time, that spoke cutter will pay for itself with a year or two. The alternative is stocking spokes for wheel sizes between 700c and 16".
Plus bladed spokes of all sorts.
I really hate the hozan tool
I’ve never got it work.
It works well if the shop carriesca large inventory of spokes and you use it once a month or less
We carry Champs in 300, black and silver, and Comps in intervals of 5mm from ~250, again in black and silver, plus a variety of oddball buttspokes in the Roval service binder and the stupid Mavic shit kits. Spoke cutter gets used almost every time a broken spoke comes in.
dropperchat in the consumption thread reminded me of this frustrating lulz from last week.
Dude comes into the shop asking about dropper posts. Our mechanic says we can’t really suggest anything without the bike on hand, you know the spiel. A couple days later dude calls the shop and says he bought a dropper on ebay and can we install. Fucking jackass but whatever.
He brings the bike and the dropper in. Dropper does not work with his bike, he bought an internal dropper and his bike isn’t drilled for it. He asks if we can drill it, nope. We looked it up, the dude saved $30 by buying the post on ebay versus buying the correct one through us. In the end he spent a week of his time and $264 on the useless post and has nothing to show for it. Because he wanted to save $30.
Ha, what a dickhead.
Serves his ass right.
I love stories like this.
That made me so happy
I could see this happening with, say, a front derailleur where there are so many different variables, but a dropper post? Serves him right.
New shop: Lots of money in the area, but you definitely have a lot of frugal downright cheap people in the area. Swapped out a tire for a customer who made a liner out of an old tube and wasn’t willing to pay for a new tire when the tube was poking out through a shredded kids bike tire.
On the opposite end of the spectrum, I’ve got a Hampsten, Eriksen, Moots, ,Colnago C60, Open hardtail, Wileir Twin Blade, Bora tubulars and other fancy bits in for service and the only wheels I’ve touched this week have been carbon, carbon and more carbon.
It’s the Paceline in real life. Oh, four guys that are regulars are on the Paceline.
That’s a flat out no for me. If I can see threads, and you won’t replace the tire, then you can find another shop.
Yeah, I ended up telling him I wouldn’t touch it unless the tire was replaced. He bitched a bit and gave in. I threw in the ‘it’s for the safety of your child’ line at him.
I can’t imagine there’s a shop manager or owner who would second guess that call.