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As said before learn to do it yourself - its so simple and the cost of a bleed kit will be paid back in no time, heck you could even do your mates for a tenner a brake and 'rip them off'
Jay2 .. I would have contemplate paying that if were an Ibis / Shimano dealer and i knew it was 100% .. as you are refering to dealer ..Evans has nothing over the "smaller side" bike shops apart from it is part of a chain.
i swear to god it was the LBS who hacked us. and if if i ever remove my cranks to find my my BB shall HAS NOT been faced it'll be be me who hacks my lbs.....
I work in a small LBS. We usually undercharge on labour on service work, it's endemic in the bike trade. You'd probably get charged £8 to £10 an end for a bleed plus a little for fluids at our shop. We want your custom.
The big boys can charge what they like, if you don't want to pay, another punter will be along any minute. If you don't like the price, bring a packet of good biscuits to a local bike shop, and a good attitude, and you'll get a good deal.
I charge £10 per end, plus a packet of custard creams or m+s yum yums....
Price includes all fluids, cleaners and latex gloves.
...feed the mechanics, you get a good deal.
sound people are sound people. evans cycles sold me a shite lock to go with my new bike and guess what happened? yup.
I would imagine evans have worked out their pricing structure based on what it actually costs them to do a job that takes 40 mins as most main dealer/high street retailers do, including store overheads, rent, rates, lighting, heating, wages, staff training, insurance, tools I could go on and on!!
As bassspine has pointed out most smaller LBS stores undercharge on labour and don't really make any money from it but rely on building up a good relationship with customers, it's the "Cheep brake bleed today, New bike sale tomorrow!! approach!!
jay2 ..that's fair enough as I said in previous posts I didn't have a problem paying "a bit" over the odds but 50% over is shocking ... anyway I have loved and learned today about rip of bike shops off to my scratcher now up early tomoz to go riding ... so any evans mechanics on here have a word and sort it .. 10/4 rubber dicks!
[i]evans cycles sold me a shite lock to go with my new bike[/i] Because I would imagine you said you wanted to pay x amount for a lock and they stocked x lock for that amount. From what I know of evans they tend to stock pretty good brands.
Maybe I should clarify, we charge £20 for a disc brake service, per brake.
It's not just bleeding, the fluid is flushed through and new replaced, lube pistons where possible, face the disc mounts if nessecary, check pads for wear.
I prefer to charge full whack and do the job fully, we either do it fully or not at all, you can't make errors or mistakes with hydro brakes. A quick bleed may not find other brake issues that are present. We could end up liable if an accident occurred as we would be deemed liable once we have worked on the brakes.