Sligh hi-jack, but do any of these shops do a ‘book your bike in’ system?
VS cycles is my local shop, but if I take my bike in for a job that I know will take them at the most 15 minutes (they’ve got the specific tools which I don’t. eg. wheel truing), they always say it will be ready in 5-7 days. I appreciate that there is a queue of bikes in front of me, but why can’t they operate a system like a garage? Ie. “bring it in on Tuesday, it’ll be ready to pick up that evening”? That would mean for non-urgent jobs you could carry on riding your bike.
By the way for bigger jobs I’ll take my bike to Sowerby Brothers in Mirfield, I have more confidence in their abilities