Cuz now I hve a story to back up how hard they FAIL when I do try to include them on one of my bike builds.
Blew up one of my hayes HFX 9s last week. Sent it out for warrantee which is going to take forever. Since they blew up that easily I figured I tear them off, wait for the warranteed brake to come back and hock them on ebay for $70-80... the going rate for a pair. In the meantime I was going to snag a pair of hydros locally. So I called my LBS... no hydraulic disk brakes in stock of any kind. Next shop had one POS avid Juicy 3 (front) in stock. So I called the next shop (huge shop) who said they have a set of juicy 7's but the adjuster knob has been scavenged. Next shop, gives me this long speech about Online stores and how they don't stock parts anymore. This went on for like 3 hours... I called a dozen shops literally. Not one of them had any disc brakes in stock. And not one of them would pull the brakes off a bike and sell them to me @ retail. They all offered to order stuff for me @ inflated prices with slow shipping times.
Ok so LBS=FAIL. I will never again feel bad for ordering my parts online.
I'll just be riding the hard tail till the Elixirs I just ordered come in from GreenFish Sports ($150 less than the LBS was trying to sell them to me for).
Blew up one of my hayes HFX 9s last week. Sent it out for warrantee which is going to take forever. Since they blew up that easily I figured I tear them off, wait for the warranteed brake to come back and hock them on ebay for $70-80... the going rate for a pair. In the meantime I was going to snag a pair of hydros locally. So I called my LBS... no hydraulic disk brakes in stock of any kind. Next shop had one POS avid Juicy 3 (front) in stock. So I called the next shop (huge shop) who said they have a set of juicy 7's but the adjuster knob has been scavenged. Next shop, gives me this long speech about Online stores and how they don't stock parts anymore. This went on for like 3 hours... I called a dozen shops literally. Not one of them had any disc brakes in stock. And not one of them would pull the brakes off a bike and sell them to me @ retail. They all offered to order stuff for me @ inflated prices with slow shipping times.
Ok so LBS=FAIL. I will never again feel bad for ordering my parts online.
I'll just be riding the hard tail till the Elixirs I just ordered come in from GreenFish Sports ($150 less than the LBS was trying to sell them to me for).
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