silverclaws
Senior Retro Guru
I am writing this to guage oppinion on bike shops, as I have two near me that I have found worth their salt apparently, but they are lacking in certain areas, namely the supplying of basic parts. It annoys me to go into a shop for a basic part and they don't have it, nor are they keen to order it.
Yesterday I received light brackets for my old Cateyes, they only took seven weeks to get and I was going to cancel the order yesterday as I had not been told they had arrived. Brackets, I knew were available, I had located three seperate suppliers online where I could get them, but I wanted to support my local bike shop, very foolish of me in hindsight.
The LB said the brackets were retro and there hard to find, oblox, cateye still supply them, you do business with cateye, or their marketing, therefore you can get them, I am certainly not buying new lights for want of a bracket, and if I am forced to, I will get them on fleabay at a fraction of the price they sell at.
The other bike shop I gave up with, after they asked me if I had rod pull brakes, their attitude to older bikes clearly sucked, but then they sell shiny new 2k Treks.
I was wondering if bike shops have moved more towards the car sales attitude, sell new complete machines, not supply parts to keep old machines running.
What do others think, satisfied with your local bike shop, or are they lacking in areas ?
Yesterday I received light brackets for my old Cateyes, they only took seven weeks to get and I was going to cancel the order yesterday as I had not been told they had arrived. Brackets, I knew were available, I had located three seperate suppliers online where I could get them, but I wanted to support my local bike shop, very foolish of me in hindsight.
The LB said the brackets were retro and there hard to find, oblox, cateye still supply them, you do business with cateye, or their marketing, therefore you can get them, I am certainly not buying new lights for want of a bracket, and if I am forced to, I will get them on fleabay at a fraction of the price they sell at.
The other bike shop I gave up with, after they asked me if I had rod pull brakes, their attitude to older bikes clearly sucked, but then they sell shiny new 2k Treks.
I was wondering if bike shops have moved more towards the car sales attitude, sell new complete machines, not supply parts to keep old machines running.
What do others think, satisfied with your local bike shop, or are they lacking in areas ?