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>be me
>work at bike shop, no bikes in stock to sell so mostly work as the front end for the mechanics and do some of the lighter stuff like cable adjustments/wheels+tires/installs/etc.
>work in area which is mostly populated by rich people living at their summer homes
>customers are out of this world, even for a bike shop
>exhibit A is fatty duff corporate guy, think he does something with meat packing
>has a carbon pinarello that’s worth as much as a good car, barely ever rides it or else he wouldn’t be so fat
>seems like every time he gets on it he breaks his rear wheel which is of course also carbon with massive fucking aero dishes, because he is so fat
>first time it happens, tell him that our price for the wheel is $400 based on what we can get it for, another $40 to get his rear cassette and tire from his old wheel on it and install it on the bike
>pissed, requires explanation
>tell him he was the one who decided to get an $8k bike, and a rear wheel for an $8k bike is $400, that’s why it’s an $8k bike
>agrees, we special order the wheel, he gets it back and probably realized in the meantime that he can wipe his ass with $400 if he lives where he does
>a couple weeks later
>another broken wheel
>process repeats like he doesn’t realize I was the same person who helped him the last time
Consider this a dumb roadie hate thread I guess, dump stories
>work at bike shop, no bikes in stock to sell so mostly work as the front end for the mechanics and do some of the lighter stuff like cable adjustments/wheels+tires/installs/etc.
>work in area which is mostly populated by rich people living at their summer homes
>customers are out of this world, even for a bike shop
>exhibit A is fatty duff corporate guy, think he does something with meat packing
>has a carbon pinarello that’s worth as much as a good car, barely ever rides it or else he wouldn’t be so fat
>seems like every time he gets on it he breaks his rear wheel which is of course also carbon with massive fucking aero dishes, because he is so fat
>first time it happens, tell him that our price for the wheel is $400 based on what we can get it for, another $40 to get his rear cassette and tire from his old wheel on it and install it on the bike
>pissed, requires explanation
>tell him he was the one who decided to get an $8k bike, and a rear wheel for an $8k bike is $400, that’s why it’s an $8k bike
>agrees, we special order the wheel, he gets it back and probably realized in the meantime that he can wipe his ass with $400 if he lives where he does
>a couple weeks later
>another broken wheel
>process repeats like he doesn’t realize I was the same person who helped him the last time
Consider this a dumb roadie hate thread I guess, dump stories
