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> I'm actually surprised and optimistic to see the major manufacturer Trek start building their own brick and mortar shops in certain major cities I wouldn’t b
by rapind 5y ago
> I'm actually surprised and optimistic to see the major manufacturer Trek start building their own brick and mortar shops in certain major cities
I wouldn’t be too optimistic. We have one in Toronto. When I brought in my trek that I bought from them to fix it, it cost a fortune and they didn’t actually fix it properly.
Similar to servicing your car at the dealer. It’s super expensive. Difference being the quality of work is questionable (no doubt varies quite a bit).
Lesson: learn to fix your own bike or settle for crappy big box bikes instead.
- JCharante 5y agoNon-chain shops might be better. I'm learning to service my own bike because the cost of labor and overhead is really high in the US compared to where I got hooked on road cycling (Vietnam).
- scoofy 5y agoI would actually write to trek about that. The shop here in SF seems pretty solid, but I don't currently have a Trek bike, so I might be wrong. I agree with you on the analogy, but I'm pushing for the apple-store parallel. No serious computer nerd would use an apple-store as a serious place to maintenance their laptop, but novice to intermediate computer users would, even if they have to go back a few times.
- secondcoming 5y agoI have a lot of tools that I got so I could service my bike. Now, the industry has moved on with various sizing standards and these tools will be useless when I get a new bike.
- JKCalhoun 5y agoGoing to suggest high schools add a bike repair class/course. They can work on bikes students bring in, get the knowledge they need to fix their own bikes.