Hi to all.
I'm not to happy with my local bike shop today I put my old road bike in for a new bottom bracket. The one in it was the original and was starting to get a little notchy and needed nipping up every couple of weeks so I thought a nice new sealed bb was now over due.. Tonight I went to pick my bike up and all looked well. I didn't inspect it to closely as I was in a rush to get home. Later on I thought I'd go out for a quiet ride out and notice the chain ring side arm crank was literally barely clearing the rear chainstay frame. You couldn't even get the thickness of a credit card between the crank arm and the frame. Luckily for me my brother-in-law is quite handy with bikes so I took my bike over to him to get a second opinion. He took one look at it and said no no no this isn't right. He explained as soon as I would ride this bike in anger up a hill the frame would naturally flex which would result in the crank arm hitting the frame. After whipping the bottom bracket he measured the shaft which turned out to be 118mm. In his Aladdin's cave of bike spares ,he came back out with a 122mm bb and set about fitting it, in which now gave perfect clearance.
So tomorrow the local bike shop who supplied and fitted this short bb can have it back. I wont name and shame the shop but they are a well respected shop In my area and have been trading for many years ,so for them to of carried this poor workmanship out is unacceptable
I'm not to happy with my local bike shop today I put my old road bike in for a new bottom bracket. The one in it was the original and was starting to get a little notchy and needed nipping up every couple of weeks so I thought a nice new sealed bb was now over due.. Tonight I went to pick my bike up and all looked well. I didn't inspect it to closely as I was in a rush to get home. Later on I thought I'd go out for a quiet ride out and notice the chain ring side arm crank was literally barely clearing the rear chainstay frame. You couldn't even get the thickness of a credit card between the crank arm and the frame. Luckily for me my brother-in-law is quite handy with bikes so I took my bike over to him to get a second opinion. He took one look at it and said no no no this isn't right. He explained as soon as I would ride this bike in anger up a hill the frame would naturally flex which would result in the crank arm hitting the frame. After whipping the bottom bracket he measured the shaft which turned out to be 118mm. In his Aladdin's cave of bike spares ,he came back out with a 122mm bb and set about fitting it, in which now gave perfect clearance.
So tomorrow the local bike shop who supplied and fitted this short bb can have it back. I wont name and shame the shop but they are a well respected shop In my area and have been trading for many years ,so for them to of carried this poor workmanship out is unacceptable