Bike maintaining

just what i come here for too

just phoned up my local halfords and they said not enough staff to service my bike? Stuipd for a BIKE shop!!

Anyways they sent me 8miles away to neareast shop with staff.....BIKE there and walk back hahah stuff that do it my self.

Looking for food serviceing guide pictures etc?

Need to give a good clean to chain has some rust in rain for 2 days and got rust and now need to service before rust buggers it thks.

HI,

Well , i can understand were you're coming from.
But a lesson does need to be learned .
1) After buying your bike , i suggest to learn as much as possible for yourself.
2) Trusting the store for info after purchase usually doesn't help.

bye

zanic said:

just what i come here for too

just phoned up my local halfords and they said not enough staff to service my bike? Stuipd for a BIKE shop!!

Anyways they sent me 8miles away to neareast shop with staff.....BIKE there and walk back hahah stuff that do it my self.

Looking for food serviceing guide pictures etc?

Need to give a good clean to chain has some rust in rain for 2 days and got rust and now need to service before rust buggers it thks.

paddlehappy said:

2) Trusting the store for info after purchase usually doesn't help.

depends on the shop and what you want from them, i dunno aobut where you are but here usually you get given at least 1 free service with the bike. if you want info on servicing the bike yourself well why should the shop take their time to help you out if your not going to be paying them for the time, buy a book that explains bike mechanics like the park big blue book or look around the internet eg. parks website and sheldon browns and dont waste the shops time, unless you have a relationship with them and want to buy some tools or whatever then maybe they'll take the time to show you how to do some things but what if you went into a car mechanic and asked him how to replace your cam belt.. think hes going to take time to show you ?

and thats my rant.. its just i work in a bike shop and we get all sorts of customers coming in and calling up asking how to work on their own bikes, well why should i demonstarte things for them for nothing. and also people that come in and we're fully booked up like at the moment we do around 10+ bike services a day with 2 mechanics and we're booked out for abut 12 days, and we have customers getting angry that we cant do things on the spot.. its like ok take it somewhere else.. oh wait half the bike shops just closed down and theres us and the usless fools accross the road, your pick 🙄

but anyway back to servicing your own bike, look at some info on the net, if you cant figure it out especially if its something to do with replacing something with the right part or truing wheels or replacing bearings.. take it into a shop and ask them nicely if they can tell you what you need and what tools to do it with.

i read the big blue book just to see what its like quite a while ago.. i didnt really learn anything having been a bike mechanic for a bit but i think its a very good book esp. if your a beginner, we have the barnetts manual at work which covers every little usless point aobut a bike where the park book is sortof to the point and tells you basically what you need to know for a modern bike. otherwise like i said, read up some websites like parks site which has a bit of info but you'll have to search through it a bit and sheldon browns website seems to be linked here alot which i think is a good site though some of it isnt that up to date or relevant for modern bikes but worth a read if your interested though, otherwise search google for like anything specific or other people might have some more good links.

anyway im going to stop typing all this [censored]. 😄

I tend to go to www.parktool.com/repair/ and use their guides. They obviously push the use of their tools but the guides are good.

Srodders said:

I tend to go to www.parktool.com/repair/ and use their guides. They obviously push the use of their tools but the guides are good.

I agee with the park tool book I heard it was awesome!!!