classic33
Leg End Member
Doubt we'll find out if she gets the bike back.
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Is £30 to put 2 sides of bicycle brakes a rip off?
- Thread starter Fuutarou
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davidphilips
Veteran
- Location
- Onabike
Yes now on my second 6 month, theres no mot tests been done in N/ireland at present , no idea when they will open again?
biggs682
Touch it up and ride it
- Location
- Northamptonshire
I wonder if anybody is waiting outside a shop yet ?
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
I am sweating awaiting the outcome
classic33
Leg End Member
She can't give an answer now, we'll never know.
Given where she'd got the price from, a five year old review(poor), how much would it be now.
bikingdad90
Guru
Come on guys cut @Fuutarou some slack.
I don’t know her position at all for all we know
She might be awaiting asylum and therefore unable to work and has to live on £37/week. Was reading an article in cycling plus about Bristol bike coop and how they help mobilise the demographic with bikes and this was mentioned.
I don’t know her position at all for all we know
She might be awaiting asylum and therefore unable to work and has to live on £37/week. Was reading an article in cycling plus about Bristol bike coop and how they help mobilise the demographic with bikes and this was mentioned.
classic33
Leg End Member
We did, and if you view her other thread, £2 on basic lights was expensive, but a £50 lock, that someone else could buy for her, was considered OK. Despite one half the price being recommended.
bikingdad90
Guru
Fair point @classic33, I didn’t bother with that thread along with a few other I don’t bother with.
Phil Fouracre
Veteran
Love these posts! Everything’s a ‘rip off’! Read the OP and a couple in the middle, then the last few - how do they keep going for so long? What is it with people? Are cyclists worse than ’normal’? Think I read on one of the forums about someone who complained about about a shop that stayed open so that he could collect a brake cable, then moaned that it turned out to be 50 pence dearer than he could have bought it on the net - absolutely bloody hilarious!
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
A
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
£30 is a huge rip off @Fuutarou
Anything over a tenner is taking the provervial. I suggest you get down the LBS and get in their faces and demand it be done for a sensible price, and don't take no for an answer. Stand your ground and don't take any guff - trust me, they'll back down eventually.
Anything over a tenner is taking the provervial. I suggest you get down the LBS and get in their faces and demand it be done for a sensible price, and don't take no for an answer. Stand your ground and don't take any guff - trust me, they'll back down eventually.
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SkipdiverJohn
Deplorable Brexiteer
- Location
- London
Do you have to put up with this sort of thing working on motorbikes?
keithmac
Guru
Yes we do, luckily in the minority though!.
I've personally had "my tyre is worn out, is it covered under warranty" and same again with punctures!.
I've done jobs where the customer is happy to pay whatever it takes to get the bike right, most customers are pleasant and easy to deal with.
Then there's "those" customers, take longer dealing with them than doing the job itself..
My mate said it won't take you long, he'd have done it himself but just doesn't have time..
