What was your secret name, White Trash?
True Bike shop stories
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I brought a rear wheel into an LBS to be rebuilt. They informed me I needed a new hoop and it would take two weeks. I needed to ride the next day, so, like an idiot, I bought a new cheapo rear from said shop. My wheel didn't come back rebuilt for 2 months, and when it did, they'd lost the nuts, which they didn't have in stock, and took another week to get.
I haven't been back since.
I haven't been back since.
This ain't a "bitch-out-the-lbs" thread.
I wish, that would've been great....intead it was Casandra. I wonder if they still use that name, hmm? I should go back to the store and just start randomly yelling it.
so a spanish guy walked into my lbs and asked for a tube for his commuter bike. It was an old 1980's road bike that was basically junk. So the owner gave him the tube. He went to the gas station to put the new tube in. 2 minutes later we hear an explosion, sure enough he put too much air in it. He comes back for another and does the same thing. By now he can't even hear and he is completely out of cash, so the owner gives him a free tube and installs it for him.
I was a bouncer for about nine months. I got to where I could run off bums with a single, angry, gesture. We were not allowed to physically touch someone who needed to be removed unless they took a swing at us.
The bar tenders and wait staff had a similar name for one annoying regular. They called him Fitwig, fvcking in the way guy.
I was at the Zeitgeist, when a few drunken chicks had to be escorted out. In the parlance of the street, this biatches talked hella smack, kept throwing their arms out, and stepped to the bouncers and told them to bring it.
The bouncers had serious but bemused expressions, and they herding these girls to the door.
If these guys actually took a swing, the chicks wouldn't know what hit them, but they handled themselves like gentlemen. It would have been funny if they stomp down. I bet the chicks would have jumped!
Nope, not even close.The formatting and colors on that forum might be the worst on the internet.
http://www.whiteind.com/
The formatting and colors on that forum might be the worst on the internet.
It must be your computer.
Nope. It looks the same on 3 different computers, and an internet tablet using IE and Firefox.
The combination of the red header/trailer, annoying, run-on signatures, and poor font choices make it very hard on the eyes. YMMV.
At the first shop I worked at we had a stash of bottle rockets and firecrackers we brought out on fridays since the manager wasn't there. The way the work areas were laid out you could slyly walk by and drop a firecracker at someones feet or we'd take up postitions and shoot bottle rockets at each other when customers weren't there. Or we'd throw fire crackers under the bathroom door when someone was in it since there was ~1in gap and the room was tiny. The toilet also happened to be next to the door and one guy lost some leg hair when another employee grabbed his lighter and sprayed degreaser under the door.
At the same shop I had been spraying some flammable lube or degreaser and there ended up being a large pool on the floor. One of the senior employees walks over and drops a match on it. We ended up burning a lot of paint off the floor, the manager never noticed because they were removing it all anyways for some reason.
Most recent shop I worked at, the store next to us was going out of business. The owner had her son and some of his friends clean it out late one evening. they stayed until the next morning but at some point the owners son had taken way too much DMT I believe, something anyways, and he started flipping out, he had locked his friends in the store and the guy working the morning repair shift walked outside to see what all this noise was and saw the dude rampaging around and throwing chairs off the balcony of a cafe in the same stretch of shops. Eventually the cops came and it took 5 of them to wrestle him to the ground, he was 6' 4" or so.
At the same shop I had been spraying some flammable lube or degreaser and there ended up being a large pool on the floor. One of the senior employees walks over and drops a match on it. We ended up burning a lot of paint off the floor, the manager never noticed because they were removing it all anyways for some reason.
Most recent shop I worked at, the store next to us was going out of business. The owner had her son and some of his friends clean it out late one evening. they stayed until the next morning but at some point the owners son had taken way too much DMT I believe, something anyways, and he started flipping out, he had locked his friends in the store and the guy working the morning repair shift walked outside to see what all this noise was and saw the dude rampaging around and throwing chairs off the balcony of a cafe in the same stretch of shops. Eventually the cops came and it took 5 of them to wrestle him to the ground, he was 6' 4" or so.
dude comes in. about 260 lbs. cracked the rim on a high end, low spoke count rear wheel that's not made by mavic (good guess though).
seeing as how the wheel is only 4 months old he's bummed and wants an identical replacement fast.....cause he's training for some event....the other mechanic goes back to see if we have a replacement......
areo bars on a _road_ bike, huge seat pack, bento box, three water bottle cages, two behind the seat, jet black drivetrain, typical.....
i mention to him that there are several durable 32 hole wheels that are hand built available from a variety of places...we can get them for him and his wheel troubles would be over.....
response "i can't ride a wheel with all those spokes, i need the wheels to be fast, i ride for speed"
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someone comes in to buy a tube......
cust - oh...and one more thing.....a friend asked me to pick up something for him.....
me - what does he need?
cust - he asked me to get him some brake lube
me - i think he got you pretty good
cust - there's no such thing?
me - friction between the pad and rim stop a bike.....so a lubricant would......
cust - so do you guys have that stuff...or does it need to be ordered?
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rider comes in....someone who is not a mechanic installed a center lock rotor on his bike......
somewhere, somehow, at some point some bull**** about cassette lockrings only needing to be hand tight cause the pedaling force tightens them up started.....and somehow continues to live on.....much like the unquenchable thirst for "tips and tricks" fr bike maintenance......
so the lockring for the brake rotor.....the brake rotor....was put on hand tight .....because the braking would tighten up the lock ring.
lease note again that this was not a mechanic.
rider comes back in rotor is loose and flopping around on the hub.
i tell the guy the lockring just needs to be tightened.
cust - also, when the rotor came off the chain started to skip (skip - i never know what that means)
me - well....the rotor is on opposite sides of the hub so it couldn't have affected the shifting.
cust - oh, i know it did.
me - how old is the cable and housing?
cust - 2 years
me - i'd start with replacing the cables and housing. it needs to be swapped out at least every 6 months of riding for consistent shifting performance.
cust - it was the rotor. the rotor is the problem.
me - oh. i see. ok. well. the rotor's lockring is now tight so the shifting should be good to go.
cust - great. thank you!
seeing as how the wheel is only 4 months old he's bummed and wants an identical replacement fast.....cause he's training for some event....the other mechanic goes back to see if we have a replacement......
areo bars on a _road_ bike, huge seat pack, bento box, three water bottle cages, two behind the seat, jet black drivetrain, typical.....
i mention to him that there are several durable 32 hole wheels that are hand built available from a variety of places...we can get them for him and his wheel troubles would be over.....
response "i can't ride a wheel with all those spokes, i need the wheels to be fast, i ride for speed"
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someone comes in to buy a tube......
cust - oh...and one more thing.....a friend asked me to pick up something for him.....
me - what does he need?
cust - he asked me to get him some brake lube
me - i think he got you pretty good
cust - there's no such thing?
me - friction between the pad and rim stop a bike.....so a lubricant would......
cust - so do you guys have that stuff...or does it need to be ordered?
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rider comes in....someone who is not a mechanic installed a center lock rotor on his bike......
somewhere, somehow, at some point some bull**** about cassette lockrings only needing to be hand tight cause the pedaling force tightens them up started.....and somehow continues to live on.....much like the unquenchable thirst for "tips and tricks" fr bike maintenance......
so the lockring for the brake rotor.....the brake rotor....was put on hand tight .....because the braking would tighten up the lock ring.
lease note again that this was not a mechanic.
rider comes back in rotor is loose and flopping around on the hub.
i tell the guy the lockring just needs to be tightened.
cust - also, when the rotor came off the chain started to skip (skip - i never know what that means)
me - well....the rotor is on opposite sides of the hub so it couldn't have affected the shifting.
cust - oh, i know it did.
me - how old is the cable and housing?
cust - 2 years
me - i'd start with replacing the cables and housing. it needs to be swapped out at least every 6 months of riding for consistent shifting performance.
cust - it was the rotor. the rotor is the problem.
me - oh. i see. ok. well. the rotor's lockring is now tight so the shifting should be good to go.
cust - great. thank you!
One time I went into a bike shop and got decent service and fair prices... and then I woke up.
True story.
True story.
Sooo, this kid walks in looking around. The salesmen comes over to him starts talking to him, what kind of bike do you want bla bla bla, kid doesn't know what he wants so the salesmen then points over to a cheep pink POS diamondback and suggests he buy it. The kid leaves and about 20 minutes later we receive a call from the kids mom about how his feelings are hurt and how he's crying. The salesman apologized and that was the end of that.
Might I add that sanjuro made a little kid cry.......
Might I add that sanjuro made a little kid cry.......
And that you were the little boy?