Timeline for LBS won't Service Shimano Dual Control Lever
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| Aug 13, 2023 at 1:49 | answer | added | Dan Gao | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 6, 2023 at 23:05 | comment | added | Andrew Henle | Speaking of Amazon: amazon.com/SHIMANO-105-ST-R7000-Shifters-Black/dp/B07G9KGKZG/… | |
| Aug 6, 2023 at 23:02 | comment | added | Andrew Henle | And always remember - Ultegra is 105 with a handful of grams shaved off. | |
| Aug 6, 2023 at 23:01 | comment | added | Andrew Henle | One thing about US bike market: there used to only be a small number of distributors, and they gouged LBSs on price. So much so it was usually a lot cheaper to buy parts from non-US online bike shops (especially UK ones) and have them shipped to the US - I could get Conti GP4000s delivered from the UK for half what they cost in the US. Then Amazon got into the bike parts market, and it seems like the US industry is still working that out. But look here: totalcycling.com/en/… | |
| Aug 6, 2023 at 20:59 | answer | added | Noise | timeline score: 5 | |
| Aug 6, 2023 at 9:41 | comment | added | Chris H | @WarrenBurton I've had some success with old 6-speed triggers, but the spring in those was probably less stiff and the rest of the mechanism offered a bit more to get hold of | |
| Aug 6, 2023 at 9:19 | comment | added | Warren Burton | @ChrisH I’ve tried with Deore triggers and once you release the main spring from the assembly it’s all over. Much bad words, blood and time then finally acceptance that dead STI triggers can’t be repaired. | |
| Aug 6, 2023 at 8:43 | comment | added | Chris H | @WarrenBurton on the Sora ones I've replaced, I'm pretty certain that wear can be an issue - not exactly breakage, and the grease I could get at was fine, but some play had developed where there shouldn't be any, and that caused an internal lever not to return properly. So not sudden breakage, but not fixable either, and a couple of hours work to realise | |
| Aug 6, 2023 at 5:58 | comment | added | Kaz | A customer might say today that they will happily pay the hourly rate, so that they end up paying several times what it costs to replace the part to get it rebuilt. Then they might change their mind and come back, or give bad reviews or whatever. Nobody wants the headache. Shops should staunchly refuse to do $80 work on something that costs $20, and is available. (If it cost the equivalent of $20 fifty years ago, and you can't find it today, that's a little different). | |
| Aug 5, 2023 at 16:03 | vote | accept | someguyinafloppyhat | ||
| Aug 5, 2023 at 14:33 | answer | added | Chris H | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 5, 2023 at 13:26 | comment | added | Warren Burton | STI gear shifters of most flavours are difficult to service due to internal springs that need to be kept in tension during assembly. Easy if you have a factory jig or are a robot, difficult if you’re a mechanic with only 2 arms. Not impossible, but not trivial. Add up the probability that there’s something broken and not just sticky and it’s wise business to refuse to service them. | |
| Aug 5, 2023 at 8:01 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Aug 5, 2023 at 7:25 | comment | added | DoNuT | @someguyinafloppyhat It of course depends on your location but my LBS charges 90€/hour, assuming that a service like that may easily take longer than 30 minutes, that's already in the ballpark of a new (rim brake) 105 STI which sells about 100€, hydraulics or current-gen Di2 are indeed more expensive but it remains a substantial amount in relation to the new part's price. | |
| Aug 5, 2023 at 2:10 | answer | added | Criggie♦ | timeline score: 15 | |
| Aug 5, 2023 at 1:22 | answer | added | Nathan Knutson | timeline score: 6 | |
| Aug 4, 2023 at 23:57 | comment | added | someguyinafloppyhat | I'd happily pay the hourly rate if only they would do the work! | |
| Aug 4, 2023 at 23:32 | comment | added | SamA | Are you sure they didn't quote you shop hourly and show you it's four times the cost of a new one to overhaul yours? | |
| Aug 4, 2023 at 23:22 | history | asked | someguyinafloppyhat | CC BY-SA 4.0 |