You're assuming a shop will never do an half ass job. How exactly can you tell if they did if you don't know how to do it yourself? There's not an absolute answer to this, just go with whatever makes you more comfortable.
I guess you can consider it a safe assumption as no professional in any line of work has ever done an half assed job. EVER
Now who's assuming ? I've never crashed due to a mechanical, and never as a result of something I've worked on myself. You know nothing of my mechanical experience. Having built, maintained, raced and crewed for championship winning racing vehicles for 30+ years, my skill set is solid. It's your own expertise you truly question, not mine Rick. That's entirely clear. Although I'm sure you could handle fixing a machine as simple as a bicycle, if you took the time to learn to do so. You wish to throw money at things rather than increasing your skills and knowledge. Your choice. Also your choice to trust someone else to do your work for you. Perhaps you should pay someone to ride it for you as well.Lucky for you you've found a solid shop, as that is not always the case. The competent shop guys on here I'm sure can tell many stories of poor workmanship they've had brought to them from other shops. Brought to them by folks who belived the shop they tried first had "expertise".
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I would apply this to many other things in life before bicycle maintenance. Unless of course we were in post apocalyptic times and the only way I could get gas was to barter with Lord Humungous.
This is awesome. How do you know he does not apply his time/knowledge/skillset to something that produces a far greater value/cost then what he spends at a bicycle mechanic?
Obviously he has spent his time learning how to exit all the car shows he goes to without mowing down a crowd of onlookers. A skill that most Mustang drivers don't seem to have.
There are things where you simply have to trust the professionals, you really have no choice. That doesn't mean professionals do not screw up. With regard to medical procedures I could tell you a couple of stories where the professionals really screwed up, but I'll spare you. Like I said, you need to do what makes more comfortable. To me, destroying my bikes while thinking I'm fixing them is somewhat therapeutic. And that has a value too. On top of that, I rearely ride them, so it's really a low risk gamble...also, it takes time to ride a bike, so why not leaving it to the professionals? How far do you take this?
I have a masters in finance and work in the industry daily….
Uh oh, I've never done any maintenance to any of the suspension components on my 6 year old SB5+. Am I in trouble? Will it explode on the next ride?
Come on, Yeti is even more expensive than Ibis, new Yeti’s are a jack. However, I’m up at the Leafblower and the post-pandemic glut of bikes are in full effect. I’m trying to talk a friend back home into a new bike, and they have a brand spankin new SB160 with a factory 38 fork and factory X2 for less than a thousand more than a frame alone. I know there’s another thread on this, MTB’s are over-priced, but right now it’s a buyers market. So many high end bikes up here for $2-3k off.
Professionals dont do half assed work, hence the word "professional " 😉
This 100%. I don’t know how the LBS keeps up with these trend changes.
This can be true, but experience has a lot to do with it. I was a bike shop mechanic from before I could drive, all the way through my college years. Throw in my professional career and several vehicle restorations and I’m not the average bike rider. When I have a really tough mechanical issue I stop by my historic LBS and we chew it over. More often than not, I take it home and proceed as planned. Not that the LBS could not have tried, it’s just a higher success rate if I prep and do it myself. These isolated issues are time well spent, vs. spending my money and time.
