Back when Pardo and I were at the University of Washington as grad students there was a campus bike shop fully equipped with tools and good workstands. The student body had paid for the shop, but there were also full time bike repair folks at the shop for people who didn't want to do their own work. Pardo and I would show up with our bikes and start wrenching on our own bikes. The full time bike repair folks would look at our bikes and say: "Darn it. Why is it that the people who bring in nice bikes never let us work on it."
I learned to work on my own bikes simply because I got too tired of arguing with bike shop mechanics who would refuse to do what was correct because their bike lore had to be unquestioned. Once in a while I find a good mechanic and I'll let them do work I don't like doing. But over time I've also replaced the parts on my bike that require the kind of service I don't like doing and what's left is simple and easy to work on. That's how I ended up with friction shifting on all my bikes except the one bike that's supposed to be thrown off a mountain with me on it. :-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/4272560b-68bc-4a5c-9202-d635b80a4c65n%40googlegroups.com.
