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> sooner or later your bike will get damaged by a wreck, falling over, getting backed into, or ending up in way too much water for too long. You want a pro who
by Matthias247 5y ago
> sooner or later your bike will get damaged by a wreck, falling over, getting backed into, or ending up in way too much water for too long. You want a pro who can tell you fix or replace.
If you ask a store, the answer will always be replace. They don't want to deal with liability questions ("but that store told me it would be good to ride"), so they will pick the safe answer.
This will be especially true for components like a carbon frame, where even the best equipped stores will lack the equipment to perform a proper check - like an x-ray device.
However the store might help you getting a discount on the replacement or get it warrantied.
- hinkley 5y agoMaterials probably play a role in that. When I was in the biz we still had steel bikes, so the answer was sometimes just a new fork, if the bike was worth more than the parts and labor. When it’s in the cusp we recommended an upsell, because why spend all that money on an old bike you’ve already broken once? For some in particular we knew they would break them again, and there’s a happy medium of repairable and reasonable. One guy had a death wish and a dad who owned a bunch of businesses. He broke so much gear and that guy (or his dad rather) was keeping everyone else’s prices lower.
- jounker 5y agoNot my experience at all. I’ve always had different recommendations based on the condition of the parts and the costs of repair vs. replace. There are plenty of other things that need work beyond frames.