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[Closed] What to do if a bike shop has cut your fork steerer too short?!

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The shop will more than likely try to use the forks as part of the next custom bike build they do.

Can't see a problem with that.


 
Posted : 18/05/2009 2:01 pm
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Never said it was a problem!


 
Posted : 18/05/2009 2:09 pm
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hats off to the LBS. Thats the sort of place/service that makes you keep going back.


 
Posted : 18/05/2009 2:16 pm
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...and what [b]angers[/b] me is that most of that will be people who simply can't be bothered to learn how to set up their gears correctly

Really, you get angry about that?

Wow


 
Posted : 18/05/2009 2:22 pm
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Cheeky Monkey, do you watch Family Guy?


 
Posted : 18/05/2009 2:33 pm
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heh


 
Posted : 18/05/2009 2:53 pm
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anonymous? your not a regular customer, you rock up with forks you bought elsewhere, theres a bit of confusion with the instructions, and they STILL give you a replacement? I'd have thought they'd want customer service like that publicised!

you can also use it as an opportunity to get some decent forks!


 
Posted : 18/05/2009 2:53 pm
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Hi Daffy, unless you wrote or they wrote it down or they entered it onto a computer/workshop notes (like Evans do) then you have to rely on the LBS worker being honest (or not having a 'not sure/fuzzy' memory). Beyond that, well its not looking good 🙁

All the best- hope its all sorted for you. bigrich agree in a way, however if a garage ballsed-up some repair work on your VW Golf it'd be fair to expect full reimbursement, after all they wont be cutting the steerer for free will they?


 
Posted : 18/05/2009 3:07 pm
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hats off to the lbs, tell me who it is and i'll get my new required shorts from them, just for the hell of it


 
Posted : 18/05/2009 4:25 pm
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100!


 
Posted : 18/05/2009 4:35 pm
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hora, try reading the full post next time 😆


 
Posted : 18/05/2009 5:20 pm
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come on what shop was it ?? i need a trust worthy (as long as i check twice they get the order right) lbs in leeds 😉


 
Posted : 18/05/2009 5:29 pm
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all ended well ,good karma to you all.


 
Posted : 18/05/2009 6:58 pm
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Well there was a possibility you were going to name & shame, so Karma says you must give credit where it's due.
They sound like a very good LBS to me, although I bet the shop conversation was all but favorable to STW & the like... 😉


 
Posted : 18/05/2009 10:18 pm
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Same thing happened to me - gave the shop my Maguras to do, and even though i'd left the headset spacers with him, he forgot & just cut it to the headtube height - oops!
The guy apologised & bought me a new steerer tube though, direct from Germany - luckily you can unbolt them! 🙂


 
Posted : 18/05/2009 10:30 pm
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If anyone is interested in which shop it was, they can now mail me for the information - I've spoken with the people in charge and they're happy to be known in this way, but not on an open forum, which I understand.

All the best,

Martin


 
Posted : 19/05/2009 4:22 pm
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Luckily there are lot of good bike shops in north Leeds. The shop in question seem to have done a good of fixing the problem (we are all human and make mistakes) if their name was posted I’d definitely shop them.


 
Posted : 19/05/2009 4:42 pm
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Glad it's sorted mate....


 
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