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"A Bicycle Shop" (163 w22nd st) totally full of sh!t
On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 08:56:30 +0100, Peter Clinch
wrote: dgk wrote: Public transit is essentially $3 a day for me if I take the bus and train. I just paid $20 to get a spoke replaced. There goes a week of commuting. So, do you lose the best part of 50 spokes a year? Pete. I do break a lot of spokes. Maybe four a year or so. It's annoying. I think because I ride a hybrid so there is a fair amount of weight on the rear wheel. I've never broken one on the front tire. |
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"A Bicycle Shop" (163 w22nd st) totally full of sh!t
On 25 Oct 2006 18:38:36 -0700, "Ozark Bicycle"
wrote: dgk wrote: On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 16:39:45 +0100, Peter Clinch wrote: It's much cheaper, unless public transport in NYC is basically free or you are particularly prne to breaking your bikes. Public transit is essentially $3 a day for me if I take the bus and train. I just paid $20 to get a spoke replaced. There goes a week of commuting. I think I should be able to handle a broken spoke, except they're always the drive side of the rear wheel. I need to learn how to use a chain whip to get the cassette off. I'll do it next time. Look he http://tinyurl.com/ymjggc scroll down to find the appropriate info. (You might want to bookmark the Park Tool site, it's the most useful one on the internet for DIY service and repairs.) That link didn't work for me but I went to Park Tools and found it. Thanks, I'll learn how to do it. I have the tools I think. |
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dgk wrote:
I do break a lot of spokes. Maybe four a year or so. It's annoying. It's also unusual to get that many breaks /if/ you have good quality wheels. A case of spending a bit more up front and saving in the long term. Beyond that, it still gives you ~10 months of the year of "free" commuting! Pete. -- Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK net http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/ |
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"A Bicycle Shop" (163 w22nd st) totally full of sh!t
On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 13:03:00 -0400, David Kerber
wrote: In article .com, says... Peter Clinch wrote: It is healthier: motorists get the same pollution as cyclists. Cyclists live on average rather longer than non-cyclists. Averages are deceptive. That's why statisticians almost never rely on averages. And how do motorists get the same pollution? For one thing, they run from it faster. For another, they're usually enclosed, with climate control (which I assume has a filter). Very few do, and filters only remove particulates, not gasses. And the air inside the car is also contaminated with chemicals from the car itself: outgassing from adhesives, dyes, plastics, etc. As well as anything that the engine emits under the hood, because most cars have the air intake partially under the hood at the base of the windshield. Some of them have some sealing there, but that would only be effective when the car is moving. When stuck in traffic, the under-hood emissions come up around the sides of the hood. ... True about the inside car air. As for the outside air, pedestrians get the same pollution, as do residents. I live a block from a highway which is often referred to as the longest parking lot in the world. Or, if raining, the longest carwash. I can't be breathing much more dangerous air while biking than I am watching TV. Some of my commute is along a river, so I must be getting some good air coming off that. Somehow it seems more pristine. |
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"A Bicycle Shop" (163 w22nd st) totally full of sh!t
NYC XYZ wrote: Cathy Kearns wrote: On the San Francisco peninsula there are many good local bike shops, with really friendly service. Our family has bought three bikes, from two different LBS's, in the last two years. At both bike stores they were happy to adjust the bikes to fit us (including changing pedals to test road bikes) and let us take as many test rides as we wanted without requiring us to leave even a driver's license behind. (We offered...) Recently I went into one of our LBS to get thorn resistant tubes for my daughter's bike. It's a big year for the thorny weeds, so they were out of stock. However, rather than selling me another solution (he had the tire liners and goo there, but he didn't recommend them) he called up other LBS's until he found one with them in stock, and had them hold them until I got there. These stores are in no way financially connected. That was just plain nice. And yeah, I'll go to him first next time too. Lucky you. I'm all for small businesses of the mom-and-pop variety, but it's been my misfortune that I haven't come across one like what you describe. The ones most physically proximate to me range from downright untrustworthy (the one on the next block, actually) to okay (the two next closest ones in my nabe and the closest one in Manhattan) to mixed-bag (the second-closest one in Manhattan). Seems to me, a bike shop's main purpose in this day and age is really service, repairs and such. Hardly, no more than the car dealer is mainly there to repair and service. They are there to sell ya something, mostly, the big ones that will most often have trekgiantspecializedconnondalefeltkona, etc... And that's where character and work ethic really counts, stuff that can't be really counted (quantified) and easily measured. So my search contines for competent mechanics I can trust to actually do the job and do it right, do it honestly. I'm not even looking for a bargain -- I just want to make sure that the $150 or $200 overhaul really did mean he checked my ball bearings and relubed them, etc. The only thing more discouraging than finding loose cables after a tune-up from one shop is finding a loose cassette after an overhaul from another shop!! Buy Lennard's book and do it yourself. |
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"A Bicycle Shop" (163 w22nd st) totally full of sh!t
You again?! Are you buying or selling something? If not, take this
somewhere else. "NYC XYZ" wrote in message ups.com... I've yet to go to one LBS which gave me a good feeling. Many made me disgusted, many left me with no feeling whatsoever -- I could have been at the DMV renewing my driver's license -- but none have left me with a favorable impression, where I feel like I trust the person, not only for their mechanical skills (sometimes not much better than my own, actually) but for their "character" and "work ethic" (a c"omplete inspection and rehaul" means a complete inspection and rehaul -- many times I've caught some of the most obvious ****, like loose cassettes or less-than-taut cables, never mind whether they really did check my ball bearings!). The all-time full-of-**** award has to go to The Bike Stop of Astoria, whose owner had sold me a brand-new bike with a defective (loose, no matter how much you tighten it) headset/stem but tried very hard to pass that off as "normal." However, screws can indeed be very bike-specific! I got an HP-Velo SWB recumbent bike earlier this year, and it came with a defective rear air shock. When I sent the air shock back to the manufacturer, I'd sent along the screws that joined the shock to the bike. Well! Turns out that the screws are specific to different bikes, at least in the case of rear shocks, owing to different "triangle" (forgot the technical term) widths and so forth. These were long, three or four-inch screws, bolts, really. Anyway, it was just a big to-do...I thought I could just get one from a bike shop or even a hardware store, but no, these things aren't standardized and you need to know length and diameter, and possibly the thread type, too! l'Al Cool wrote: I visited "a bicycle shop" that used to be on w14th, and has now moved to 163 w 22nd betw 6th and 7th, near where I work. I just needed a simple 5mm screw. Well, the guy behind the counter told me every bike needs a different screw and that he couldn't sell me one screw, since the screws are specific to the bicycle! What a total load of crap. I can't believe that he would lie about something so insignificant. If he would lie about something as stupid as a screw, what else is this guys lying about? I can understand if he said, "look, we don't sell items like that unless you have purchased the parts from us", That's totally cool. Why should he have to support non-customers? But to out and out lie to someone's face is just plain wrong. I'm sure owning a bike shop isn't that profitable, what with the big box stores and the etailers and what not, and I'm sure accessories and service are a big part of his profit margin. I can totally understand where he is coming from. I cannot tolerate outright lying, however. It's a shame as I work in the neighborhood and would purchase stuff from him, but not now! I wouldn't spend a cent in that store, and if you believe in rewarding honorable merchants, you shouldn't either. Oh, and to top it off, while I was leaving I overheard him telling another customer that people don't like doing business at Metro (on 6th ave and 16th st). Like who the hell is he to badmouth a competitor? What a lowlife! |
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"A Bicycle Shop" (163 w22nd st) totally full of sh!t
Buy a clue, asshole. NedTexTri wrote: You again?! Are you buying or selling something? If not, take this somewhere else. |
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