Timeline for Bike shop did too much work on my bike - do I need to pick it up?
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| Aug 17, 2022 at 21:10 | comment | added | Chuu | @EarlGrey One of the best Subaru shops in the country is local to me. And while they're famous for the project cars they work on, which you can see all over social media, their bread and butter when it comes to revenue is still normal maintenance and more ordinary repairs on stock or lightly modded cars. I'm curious if high end bike shops are the same. | |
| Aug 17, 2022 at 9:56 | comment | added | ojs | I think the Cosworth analogy is great, but it would still be professional to give the customer a price estimate beforehand. The ceramic bottom bracket is also well beyond what anyone had in the 90s (in price, it probably won't make any measurable difference in performance). | |
| Aug 16, 2022 at 17:24 | comment | added | EarlGrey | @DanK if the Ford is a Ford Escort Cosworth, sold by someone with no clue for £200, then it makes sense to bring it to a racing tuning shop. | |
| Aug 16, 2022 at 16:23 | comment | added | Dan K | Wether the bike is worth 2K or £200 is irreverent, no one buys a Ford Escort and takes it to Ferrari for servicing. | |
| Aug 16, 2022 at 14:22 | comment | added | EarlGrey | example of a "trek from the 90s": cyclist.b-cdn.net/sites/cyclist/files/styles/… This is a titanium-frame from litespeed, Trek labelled. I think it can easily cost ~1000$ and more. Maybe you have got an exceptionally good deal on the 100$ from Craigslist, and you do not know (yet)? | |
| Aug 16, 2022 at 14:18 | comment | added | EarlGrey | "the only bottom bracket they could order that fit it was a ceramic one that was around $250" maybe they wanted to preserve your current cranks and co, so the only bottom bracket was really that one ... again, too many unknowns to simply say if 850$ is unreasonable in an absolute sense. | |
| Aug 16, 2022 at 14:16 | comment | added | EarlGrey | "new brake pads, tires, tubes, and brake/shift cables." if the bike was fitted with butyl tubes and expensive tires, the shop may have replaced them with equivalent(ly expensive) parts, easily bringing the parts cost in the 150-200$ | |
| Aug 16, 2022 at 13:48 | history | answered | EarlGrey | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
