>break one spoke>lbs charges 500$ for a total wheel replacementI can either buy an entire new bike for a fraction of that, or 36 new spokes for 12.99 and still get ripped off
>>2073172i use an ebike to commute and it's built off of a 75$ marketplace find of a bike that probably cost 250$ new. its controller died and i bought a whole new bike in a pinch just to have a vehicle at all, still used, and the boomer that sold it to me not just said this but had paperwork proving that after buying the Dutch Bike (over 1500bux) and the motor kit (like 800bux) that our mutual LBS charged him 300$ just to install it. 300 bucks to literally change a wheel. I looked up the wheel kit later and it comes already laced.
bike "mechanics" are mostly retards who barely know righty-tighty lefty-loosy and vastly overcharge you for time and labor and take an infinity% markup on parts that you brought in yourself
>you as a consumerSTOP CALLING YOUR CLIENTS AND YOURSELVES CONSUMERS
Consumers are apiotic niggers interbreedable with CAGIES who have NO understanding of engineering not even ASSEMBLY trained parroting puppet assassins in maximum security insanity prison of proprietary parts trapped by the secret work of crapitalist gangster computer god earphone slavery; you are a TERRORIZED MEMBER OF THE MASTER RACE if you can TRUE your own WHEEL(rim), thread new cable into a """BRIFTER""" made up of sealed proprietary one-way fits, if you can even CHANGE A FLAT just IN YOUR YARD instead of taking it to the El Bee Ess for a several hundred job for five minutes of work and parts you already bought
