The shape of things to come....

Id say the service stock and tooling to deal with 10 average bike services is twice as much, and twice the price of when I started in 95.

We still have 2 sizes of cotter pin mind.
 
Nope, the shape of things to come is already here.

I was restoring an old funny bike, and I walked into a bike shop and told the kid I needed a 650c road tyre.

He laughed at me and said "No, road tyres are 700. 650 "B" is 27.5 mountain bike. There's no such thing as 650 "C"." Then he shook his head and laughed again.

Obviously the little snot had never seen a triathlon bike or a junior road bike with 650C wheels, but it was clear that he had never seen anything older than the previous Tuesday.

Rather than waste my time educating the little house brick with acne, I walked out. He probably still tells his friends how HE educated ME. Sigh...

Shops like that are the reason I vowed never to restore something with a French or Swiss BB standard.
 
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