Buying my own components and asking LBS to install them for me

[Lookrider]

Surely there must be some paid professional mechanics here who either work in a shop or own the shop themselves ..if so
What would they say
Would they do this as the OP asked or would they say no thanks

 

[Sallar55]

I just built up my first frame with integrated cables (and a press fit BB 🤣) and although it took longer, it was no where near as difficult as I anticipated it to be. The results are worth it, the frame looks so clean without any cabling.

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Hi This is integrated cabling, might need you help. One is going to the LBS if a cable or hoses required work. Hidden cables will give the bike shops a nice little earner, was told my ORRO with the cables through the headset unit would be time consuming.

Don't you just love clean lines on a bike, that is until it needs fixed😩

 

[derrick]

Hi This is integrated cabling, might need you help. One is going to the LBS if a cable or hoses required work. Hidden cables will give the bike shops a nice little earner, was told my ORRO with the cables through the headset unit would be time consuming. View attachment 638710

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Don't you just love clean lines on a bike, that is until it needs fixed😩

Recently changed headset bearings in one of those, Nice little earner.

 

[GetFatty]

I’ve only done this once and that was when they weren’t able to get the part from their regular supplier. Otherwise I either do it all myself or pay them to do it all

 

[alicat]

I have a problem with not trusting my LBS or shop people in general. I see the transactions they and I might have in a game-theoretic way. That is, our goals are opposite: theirs is to maximise profit and mine, to minimise cost. Yet we sometimes need to cooperate to achieve our separate, incompatible goals and come out with a result we can both live with.

Not all shopkeepers are like that. And your avatar is offensive to women, @tripletail52.

 

[Cycleops]

Hi This is integrated cabling, might need you help. One is going to the LBS if a cable or hoses required work. Hidden cables will give the bike shops a nice little earner, was told my ORRO with the cables through the headset unit would be time consuming.

Looks like it might be a bit of a orro story.

 

[keithmac]

I've refused to fit customer supplied parts a few times, especially poor quality wheel bearings and brake levers..

 

[itboffin]

Often buy parts and ask LBS to fit. Mine just charges an extra fiver on top of their standard fitting rates if the customer supplies the part

Yep Marlborough used to have at least four bike shops, the new and only one now isn’t doing that well by all accounts last time I spoke to the owners.

 

[vickster]

There are actually loads of bike shops around here, maybe 15 or probably more within 6 miles or so. Plenty of well heeled but time/interest in maintenance/skills poor folks in SW London (including plenty of MAMILs and a fair few MAWILs buying higher end kit, plus bikes for the kids)

 

[Deleted member 121159]

Well well folks...it's just a hypothetical question OK? Fair enough, I'll do all the repairs myself!

 

[keithmac]

We've got a bike in at work where the customer had snapped 4 exhaust studs off trying to save some money fitting his own exhaust.

Be all and end all it was that badly damaged I've got to fit a cylinder head to it.

An hours labour, acetylene welding torch and the right tools would have probably got all the nuts off but it's cost him a fair wack now.