Four visits split between two bike shops. Over three days.
(Tip for businesses: if you're going to advertise your hours in multiple places, and you have a one-time variance to those hours, make sure you note the change in ALL of those multiple places *cough cough kulshan*. Putting a note on Facebook is not the same as putting a note on your website. And your phone message counts, too. People do still call you. Thank you.)
$91.89 in parts and tools.
Some of the tools were the wrong ones.
Hours and hours and hours of time.
But with the experience of building one front wheel under her belt, G. was able to parlay that into putting all new spokes on my stupid rear wheel.
Did you know that rear wheels use spokes of two different lengths? Mine are different by 2mm.
And it was only out of commission from Monday night 'til Saturday morning. If I had taken it to a shop, it would still be in line, waiting its turn. Seems a lot of people are needing their bikes worked on all at the same time....
Sorry, there's no photo documentation. We didn't think about it. Plus the finished product looks no different than the original. So there's nothing to see here.
I'm just very glad to have my bike back in working order. It now has stronger spokes so hopefully the hub-ends of them won't be popping off all the time like the cheapo originals.
Thank you, G!
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