>>2026495>just pay someoneBut then I have to shop around for a shop that straddles that fine line between caring so little they fuck something up and make a mistake that sends you to the hospital, vs cares so much you have to do a day or two of surveillance on them and maybe send out a few phishing emails and infiltrate their systems until you have enough to build a shop owner psych profile so when you walk in you have a prepared question that you can ask in just the right way that acknowledges their unique fears, wants, hopes, needs, and struggles, or you get preemptively banished for "asking it wrong"
>>2024599. And even then you have to wait a few days and you're not riding while they wait for rossignol group's assistant vice president of sales north america to google translate the question and get back to them with pricing on DHL shipping of their proprietary $75 copy of a $15 part because if they don't do it that way they are no longer an authorized dealer, and all that time you're not riding, you're just rotting your brain on of 4chan
Or, you just buy multiple bikes so you can #justride in the meantime, and although I do own multiple bikes, once again you're saying "actually, it's ok riding a bike is gatekept"
And to be clear, I am not even sure if I disagree with this sentiment, there's pros and cons to gatekeeping, but I think we've gone off the rails somewhat with the bearings discussion, all I'm saying is, it's weird how "current thing" was bad until it was no longer "current thing" but "cool retro thing" that is beloved, by the same crowd, for the same reason it used to be derided. We saw this with quartz watches too, now that apple watches took over boardrooms suddenly mechanical movements are for low information losers and real watch nerds appreciate the "craftsmanship of quartz" and actually my 9F GS is just as good as a journe elegante! If you disagree it means you're a clueless lolex fanboi and you enjoy getting findommed by your AD
