It’s always interesting the theory that the bigger a vehicle the more it should cost to repair.
Not such a strange thing to presume. If you read what I wrote, it seems obvious that it should cost more to repair a puncture on a car than on a bike ?
Well for example, I had a nail in my tyre on the van.
I took it to the garage where they took the van into a very large, and no doubt quite expensive workshop, put the van on a huge expensive ramp, removed the wheel, removed the tyre from the wheel with a big expensive machine, removed the nail from the tyre and plugged the puncture.
Then they refitted the tyre to the wheel again.
Balanced the wheel on another big expensive machine, and refitted the wheel to the van.
And they charged me £10 for that.
That does kind of make the bike shop guy with his little tyre levers and patch seem a bit steep to me.
How would you think it was normal for a bike puncture to cost more to repair, considering it can be done pretty much anywhere, by pretty much anyone, with “tools” that cost well under a fiver.
You won’t get much change out of £3000.00 if you wanted to buy a Tyre Changer/Wheel Balancer/Compressor and all the other stuff you need so you change your own car tyres at home.