I’m sure that a compressor is fairly easy to use. But as its potentialy dangerous i wouldn’t expect an employer to let people loose with it untrained.

I was kinda kidding, but this is another one of those situations where I’m glad I don’t employ anyone any more 🙂

I’d have taken it on if the tyres and rims were tubeless or tubeless compatible. Soapy water and instaflate canisters to see how well they inflate after cleaning off the old sealant then breaking one bit of the bead off the rim to put the fluid in usually does the trick without removing the valve core.

If it went up first time then its going to go up next time around with the fluid.

Just charge for the canisters,sealant and labour.

Edit: I’d guess 20 mins to clean the old sealant from one tyre and rim.It takes a while to get it all off the beads on both sides.. but at the rate most bike shops charge for 20 mins work,this is hard going on the ole thumbs! Deffo worth charging more for a job like this.

stevenmenmuir – Member

as an indication of mark up, simple plastic water bottle <£1 to the shop, £7 to you sir..
Singlespeed MTB, trade price +vat (£300), retail £700
thats how much markup..

Really? Which drunk down the pub told you that? Did he also say Freddie Starr ate his hamster?

OH works in an LBS and got me a SS for trade price +Vat from distributor which was £300, yet the self same bikes shopfloor sticker price is £700,
And the bottle prices were available on the stock order form in the box that she was taking bottles from and pricing up before putting on the shelf..

Thankfull all the kids hamsters & guinea pigs have lived long fullfilling lives and all died of old age, unless freddy broke in eat them, then regurgated the dead pets and replaced them in their cages before leaving the house such that we were non the wiser…

however thanks for your informed input.. 😆

iPad smelling pisstakes, sorry.

druidh – Member
rocky mountain » This is why lbs go out of business and good riddance.
Almost everyone I know has bad stories about them, odd when it Vikings never been so popular.
Name and shame them.
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A staff deal on a trade price is all very well but please step down from cloud cuckoo land where you seem to be thinking that every item on every order placed by all known LBS’s in the land get.. staff discount :O)

Nwilko’s deals can be found here:

http://www.cloudcuckooland.org/

Anyhow, after a couple of beers…..

How much is labour an hour in a Bike shop? Stupid I bet.

And name and shame, here we go marshals in wgc, broken pegs on my forks, wonky stem cutting, un tightened brake callipers, bent handlebars sold, crap wheel truing and treating everyone I know like they are idiots. Even slagged off specialised at a trade show. No wonder they lost the ability to sell them and one shop closed.

And on that note, go sue me.

strange as my LBS, build wheels and are more than happy to sort your tubeless and stans systems out for you, if you are such a ham fisted spanner that you can’t manage to do it yourself. 😀

Really can’t understand the “tubeless is such a messy faff, it takes ages etc….” stance. In the many years I’ve been using stans, rim strips or proper rims with yellow tape and valve It’s never been a problem, and they’ve all gone with a track pump or gas can if I’m being a lazy sod.

You lot must have the basic preparation skills and co-ordination of a chimp on PCP!!

so well done BETD Goldtec a bike shop who will sort your tubeless woes..Have a gold star!

martinxyz – Member

A staff deal on a trade price is all very well but please step down from cloud cuckoo land where you seem to be thinking that every item on every order placed by all known LBS’s in the land get.. staff discount :O)

Martinxyz > please explain the mark up on the plastic bottles then..?
The SS price was not a mates rate (the shop did not absorb a cost), the price paid was the standard price the distibutor was charging the shop at that time for that bike (ie the same price the shop would pay should any customer pop in and order one), however to keep things inline with the taxman VAT was added to the price.
Thus the markup on the bike is effectively £400, seems like a healthy margin no ?

I beg your pardon, I read £300 inc VAT. (which would obviously be £360)

I read £300 trade inc VAT with a RRP of £700 something like a bike from last year,a staff price,end of line kind of deal.

Sorry! If I could remove the cloud cuckoo land website I would.. but it’s too late :O)

Yeah,the bottles go cheap as chips as do inner tubes. Bit like prawn crackers at the chinese. They cost around 6p and sell for £2.80 ?! :oD

martinxyz – Member

cheers chap…..

back to OP and his tubeless tires,
LBS should have quoted him a price for truing based upon him stripping wheels 1st..
no way would i expect an LBS to have to deal with a tubeless setup particulary if full of latex…

may have got them some work and saved the OP’s frustration..

sad thing is the guy’s on the shop floor are often on minimum wage whilst being badly treated by their employer and hence cant be arsed with customers at all..

my own worst LBS experience was being refused to even quote on bearing replacement as i didnt buy bike from them.. have never been back in that shop and never will..

Tubeless is a faff, you know I stated that early on don’t you.
Also I said I’m working away for the next few weeks, you caught that yeah?
Also I said I wanted the wheels truing up yeah?
And I’m working away yeah?

I don’t think my ask was unreasonable, I don’t think what I asked for was unreasonable at all and you know why…

I’ve found another LBS to do the work for me.

So that’s proven then.

No problem with honesty from said LBS, no problem with that at all. No problem with another LBS taking on the work either.

Just surprised at the response T’is all.

So, without wanting to make this a bitch fest or pointy finger waving I chose not to oust the LBS in a name and shame kinda way, that I think was honourable and fair.

I had a moan about turning work away.

You live & you learn ( where to go)