Supporting your Local Bike Shop
I try my best to support my local bike shop. Afterall, its good to have one fairly local when you live somewhere like this, but sometimes they don’t make it easy.
The other day I snapped a bolt off in the pin that mounts my rear shock to the frame. No problem I thought, it looks like a fairly standard part so I’ll pop to the Local Bike Shop and get another. They didn’t have one in and said it would be too much trouble to order one in for a part that would only cost £15. Not a lot of help there then and £15 sounded quite expensive to me for a pin and a couple of bolts.
So, I got on the phone to an internet bike shop and ordered the part with no problems at all for a grand cost of £3 plus £2 postage. A fifth of the price the local bike shop would charge me for the part and a lot easier too.
