How much is the bike? I couldn’t watch past 30 seconds.Full sus, rack, and a dropper post, flared bars and Juan-bi.
Means your shopping is still with you after that rad descent of the rock garden
Even if your teeth aren't
Look whats just been invented 😉
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bikeworkshop
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It's the same as this, without the painfully trendy pastels dressing-up-box paint scheme.
5k?
Holy shit balls. No way. I could buy a Clark Kent frame for that.It's the same as this, without the painfully trendy pastels dressing-up-box paint scheme.
5k?
bikeworkshop
Old School Grand Master
I couldn't get to 30 seconds.
The fawning bullshit in a squeaky voice was making me feel queasy
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As a now former Auto electrician, I had an email from Stellantis to say that they no longer have to support vehicles over 10 years old unless it's for recalls. So Fiat, Citroën, Peugeot, jeep etc
At the time, I had a 2014 campervan in because it's module had forgotten how to switch on the dipped headlights or wind the windows back up after allowing them to be wound down
A replacement module from the manufacturer was no longer available. Second hand had already dried up. One dead retirement present.
Many GM era vauxhall models will be off the road as there are no more seatbelt pretensioners available.
Nissan don't supply many clock springs for some fairly recent models. This buggers the airbag system, instant mot failure
Mercedes need a different lights witch for the HID bulb headlight as it needs a headlamp washer for the mot. Now made of unobtanium
Renault had many parts on back order which means they no longer supply them - lots of fairly recent models rapidly disappearing
Unrepairable VAG vehicles due to immobilisers failing. They can be repaired via a donor car but the cost is immense - you need the abs module as well as ecu, clocks etc
£250 flap motors - heating not clearing windscreens, add labour and it's absurd.
Having to remove dashboards or steering mechanisms to change heater blower motors, sometimes 10 hours labour (sounds familiar to headset bearing mechanics!)
I could go on, but I work with HGV now. Much easier
At the time, I had a 2014 campervan in because it's module had forgotten how to switch on the dipped headlights or wind the windows back up after allowing them to be wound down
A replacement module from the manufacturer was no longer available. Second hand had already dried up. One dead retirement present.
Many GM era vauxhall models will be off the road as there are no more seatbelt pretensioners available.
Nissan don't supply many clock springs for some fairly recent models. This buggers the airbag system, instant mot failure
Mercedes need a different lights witch for the HID bulb headlight as it needs a headlamp washer for the mot. Now made of unobtanium
Renault had many parts on back order which means they no longer supply them - lots of fairly recent models rapidly disappearing
Unrepairable VAG vehicles due to immobilisers failing. They can be repaired via a donor car but the cost is immense - you need the abs module as well as ecu, clocks etc
£250 flap motors - heating not clearing windscreens, add labour and it's absurd.
Having to remove dashboards or steering mechanisms to change heater blower motors, sometimes 10 hours labour (sounds familiar to headset bearing mechanics!)
I could go on, but I work with HGV now. Much easier
bikeworkshop
Old School Grand Master
basketcase
Old School Hero
THIS !
ChromeChainstay
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bikeworkshop
Old School Grand Master
Could start a thread on thisTHIS !
My car has 5 flap motors, 3 inaccessible. The fault code doesn't tell you which one is faulty. The parts diagram doesn't tell you which one is which. The vw dealer price is a thousand pounds.
I suspect they replace all 5.
You can see that top end bikes are going the same way.
I was trying to replace a cracked fork on an s-works.
This model had an elevated crown race seat, varying with size.
This must save a few grams.
Spesh themselves described it as "coffee shop damage" and laughed at the idea a fork was still available 8 years later.
"That frame is 3 iterations old" they said.
(Interestingly I now have a box of these Forks chucked out by a dealer, so they did exist after all, but it wasn't in their business model to supply them after 5? years)
The spesh fix?
New Frameset, goodwill replacement price of £1600.
My fix?
Destroy the old fork steerer to remove the cast-in aluminium collar, then epoxy the collar on to a straight steerer fork.
Almost perfect.
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