Saturday, June 27, 2009

How to turn 70$ into 450.

Fun times, and I'll lay it out right now, this isn't a gain of 380$, its the opposite.

Two weeks ago I brought my bike in for a simple 70$ tune up. And as I've mentioned before the shifter broke. Along with that included in the tune up was according to the sign new cables and housing.

Sure enough, I get there today and he starts adding stuff up.

70 tune up
35 cables housing (Hey wait! I would have thought that was in the 70$ my bad).
35 new bearings for my headtube (this I don't really have a problem with, but still seems expensive).
270 for new shifter
25 to replace the shifter (after all this they charge me for that, balls!)

And then add the tax and you've got 454$. And on top of that they got grease all over my white bar tape. I wasn't too impressed with this place. I don't think I'll be going back.

Nice little expenditure for a bike I will barely be using anymore.

6 comments:

MJ said...

That blows. You don't want to out them by naming them here? I hope it wasn't the BG... I'd love to know who it was...

Vincent said...

haven't quite decided as to how I am going to handle the bike shop yet. I think I am going to make a post about my black list shops in Vancouver. And nope, not the bike gallery. They are nice

MJ said...

Did you figure out the brakes? I think I know the answer now...

Ulyana said...

Ouch!!!! Nothing sucks more than having to spend times and times more than what's planned! And, this is not really relevant, or helpful, haha, but it costs less to replace a radiator on a car!!!

You should totally out them.

feistydaichi said...

how old was the shifter? I remember the days when Howard used to work at Shimano and he'd warranty parts for my friends and I... dunno if that only applies to DA/XTR now...

Vincent said...

shifter was pushing 4 years old and 20 000km so probably ready for a change.

I wish I still had Howard around. My bike shop troubles are never ending.