….take crown race from Fork A and fit on Fork B and then cut steerer of Fork B to match Fork A and fit supplied SFN?

Just curious.

Depends on;
A – Where said shop is
B – How good a customer you are
C – Where you bought both fork A and fork B from
D – The current market rate for a bag of doughnuts

£15 to £20 I’d guess.

Depends on;
A – Where said shop is
B – How good a customer you are
C – Where you bought both fork A and fork B from
D – The current market rate for a bag of doughnuts

A- Midlands-ish
B- Awful
C- Not from them.
D- A quid?

£20 – 30 at a guess. Depends on their minimum charge

Now, you see, it’s points B and C that are key here.

I love the crazy misconception that bike shop employees will work for biscuits (cheap sugar filled snacks etc)

imagine the face on the mechanics if you walked into you’re local garage and tried to pay in cheap sugar filled snacks for the repair / service they had just performed!!!

crazy

Dylan, none of the mechs I use work for biscuits*, but I do find that keeping them sweet (as it were) guarantees I get what I want at a price I like.

*Apart from one, who’ll do almost anything for a fig roll.

I love the crazy misconception that bike shop employees will work for biscuits (cheap sugar filled snacks etc)

Likewise.

I think bromley bike, the first time i ever went in their charged me £10

I am thinking about £15 myself. Obviously a quick phonecall would confirm this, but I am in no rush hence the post 8)

If it involves taking everything apart and fitting and cutting then prob at least £30 or more if they have to refit disc brake caliper etc. If its just purely to remove crown race & swap (everything still dismantled) and cut I would say about £15 🙂

It isn’t much work to be honest – probably a 30 minute slot (don’t think anyone does slots shorter than that). So about £15 to £20.

Having said that I bought a new fork of my lbs and got a crown race fitted with sfn and a head tube cut within the price of the fork.

My LBS charge £15 – £17.50 to fit a new headset, cut steerer, SFN etc

So to do the job you speak of a little less at a guess 😕

It’s not such a difficult thing to do yourself really. Like all challenges, set yourself an achievable first goal – start with the crown race.

Learn how to do it yourself, and do it for your mates for biscuits!

Not very helpful in that i havent got a clue how much you are likely to be charged !

HOWEVER ! the last time i frequented my LBS i tipped up with a bag of Chocolate Flap Jack ! 😳

Personally i dont think i was charged nearly enough for what work they did on the bike ! now i,m wondering if they think i am getting them to work for cheap sugary filled sh!te instead of handing over hard earned cash !

I have spent thousands there tho and would consider myself to be a good customer !

I feel guilty now !

Dunno if it is just me, but unless I was a regular frequenter of a shop it would feel a bit weird turning up with baked treats.

I have spent thousands there tho

Despite the terrible spelling, this is a key point. Your offer of oat based goodness was a decent gesture. The thousands you have spent there mean that they treat you as a loyal customer and perhaps charge a little less for the odd task or two!

Look after your LBS, folks.

I love the crazy misconception that bike shop employees will work for biscuits (cheap sugar filled snacks etc)

I don’t think that anyone believes biscuits/beer/whatever to be a generally accepted form of payment in place of cash -like where a shop would have a biscuit barrel and fridge in place of the cash register. Biscuits (or whatever) are usually a way for a customer to show their gratitude and appreciation for a small (or otherwise) job that the shop/mechanic has done for free. It all depends entirely upon the shop/staff, of course; however, the misconception is yours, I believe.

You’d be supprised how far confectionary goes in some shops actually.

I know a little independant bike shop down in Devon. If it was quiet and the work you were asking for was small and required their labour only, the mechanic would work for a cholocate swiss roll!!

Surely if you turned up at the local bike shop with cakes and biscuits they’d think “wahey! … this guy’s obviously a bit fruity”. I’d rather shell out the cash than be convicted of the LBS equivalent of curb crawling. 😀