>>2073159
yeah, i like bikefarmer but that story didn't quite sit well with me. not everyone has to be riding the most optimal setup. weird coming from him, he knows the benefit of bringing old beaters back to life more than anyone. seems like tribalism, he's too deep into the LBS camp that he'll defend any bike shop owner at this point.

>>2073159
He literally said at 14:08:
>In my opinion, those '90s mountain bikes make the best commuter bikes ever made.

>>2073172
He's 100% wrong

>>2073173
(You) are 100% wrong

>break one spoke
>lbs charges 500$ for a total wheel replacement
I can either buy an entire new bike for a fraction of that, or 36 new spokes for 12.99 and still get ripped off

>>2073172
i use an ebike to commute and it's built off of a 75$ marketplace find of a bike that probably cost 250$ new. its controller died and i bought a whole new bike in a pinch just to have a vehicle at all, still used, and the boomer that sold it to me not just said this but had paperwork proving that after buying the Dutch Bike (over 1500bux) and the motor kit (like 800bux) that our mutual LBS charged him 300$ just to install it. 300 bucks to literally change a wheel. I looked up the wheel kit later and it comes already laced.


bike "mechanics" are mostly retards who barely know righty-tighty lefty-loosy and vastly overcharge you for time and labor and take an infinity% markup on parts that you brought in yourself

>you as a consumer
STOP CALLING YOUR CLIENTS AND YOURSELVES CONSUMERS

Consumers are apiotic niggers interbreedable with CAGIES who have NO understanding of engineering not even ASSEMBLY trained parroting puppet assassins in maximum security insanity prison of proprietary parts trapped by the secret work of crapitalist gangster computer god earphone slavery; you are a TERRORIZED MEMBER OF THE MASTER RACE if you can TRUE your own WHEEL(rim), thread new cable into a """BRIFTER""" made up of sealed proprietary one-way fits, if you can even CHANGE A FLAT just IN YOUR YARD instead of taking it to the El Bee Ess for a several hundred job for five minutes of work and parts you already bought

I literally got sexually assaulted at my LBS by the owner and I wasn't even that mad because I was already 17 at the time, but then I got really mad at them because they still had my fucking bike, I had left it there for a tune-up, but they gave it back to me with nothing changed. The brakes were still bad, the derailleur was still misaligned, the bike itself was still dirty, and the tires weren't even full of air. And I agreed to not report the owner to the police for grabbing my technically underage dick

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Lol. Lmao even.

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>>2073211
bro liked that shi :,) What yr was this btw?

This nigga was obnoxious from day one, watched a few videos which granted are fine when he is quiet but he can't help himself. He talks about the most retarded leftist shit imaginable and shoots himself in the foot over and over again.

>>2073174
If it doesn't have 700c it sucks

>>2073224
have you seem his streams? its 89% BLUMPF seething

I watched a few minutes of his rambling on 2x speed (because short attention span) and DESU I think he's kind of right about most of it. Pointless consoomer factionalism especially. Why are there 10 different kinds of mountain biking and 5 different kinds of "bike trail riding while carrying stuff" and why is each person in each little niche angry at all the others for liking the wrong bikes and being dumb and not knowing SHIT about bikes (not "cycling" because god forbid anyone think I'm one of THOSE people oh god someone might think I like cycling!!!)

The only thing I really take exception to is his claim that there's tech that has been on the market for 10 years that "no one" has ever seen, and further insinuating that this includes hydraulic disc brakes and tubeless. I guess it's hyperbole but it just detracts from the overall argument

I didn't run across any political stuff but I suppose since he doesn't support the wholesale destruction of the united states by sociopathic billionaires that means he's bad and dumb, lol. REAL bike shop owners take horse de-worming pills instead of SSRIs and smoke incandescent light bulbs on live TV to own the libs

>>2073261
Only NPCs worried about covid at all. "Horse paste" or the vaxx, both sides were panicked into mass hysteria by the state. The social disorder was necessary to initiate the wealth shift and population replacement, no different than a pickpocket bumping into you and apologizing in a very handsy manner. NPC column A, NPC column B. Suckers, the lot of you. The fact that you haven't figured it out yet and are still choosing a side tells me a lot about your IQ.

>>2073269
>both sides are bad, so I support the side that's worse
>b-but I'm not picking
Yes, yes you are

>>2073261
>simping for SSRIs and resurrecting 6 year old pharma psyops about ivermectin
Quiet, vaxxie

IDK what to make of this guy, wish he wasn't so annoying because I appreciate/agree with most of his points. It's all moot because he's a salty son of a bitch and ironically admits his youtube bait titles are all for the money like that's supposed to make you actually agree with his stupid annoying attitude, which is actually how he feels but knows he's just being a cunt about it so has to pretent "it's all for the clicks"

It's embarrassing at the end of the day. Imagine if this goober was your dad.

>>2073277
Imagine actually believing that your LBS isn't Gospel Truth. It costs 450$ to replace a brake cable for a reason. Try it yourself and maybe you'll see why your LBS charges "so much". Fuck Around and Find Out :^)

>>2073211
>technically underaged
More like technologically impaired. Imagine having a bike that isn't Zero Maintenance.

>>2073271
You are not intelligent enough to formulate a relevant response, clearly. Stay panicked.

>crying that his bike shop went out of business because he's an asshole who refuses to work on any bikes that aren't precisely 999$ new

if you don't sell bikes, and you refuse to work on bikes, why does the shop even exist?

>>2073159
>builds a brand on fixing up cool old bikes
>erm, ackshually, you're just a fucking rube for getting sentimental about your old bike instead of consooming a new one

he's just a terrible mechanic. all the rest of his videos are him struggling with basic tasks people often just do at home

i be he opened his shop and figured he'd retire a millionaire on taking 500$ a pop to replace blown tubes or put fallen chains back on and got mad after he realized sometimes people have more complex systems/problems or aren't so gormless that they'll pay 700$ to have a brake cable replaced

>>2073159
he's so fucking retarded lmao

>>2073395
Meh, your average LBS mechanic really is not that much better than doing it at home. They just get paid for it so they can't ragequit or blame the absence of proper tools/workspace.

His real mistake was that he made his hobby his job, we are all aware of the cliche, he had a midlife crisis and figured the rules do not apply to him.

>>2073450
Went to my LBS for work one time and received my brand new Revelation fork back installed with a fresh 4 inch long scratch on the stanchion. Never went back for any work from then on, just to buy tools. I only went because I needed new cups pressed but do that myself now too.

>>2073453
I've never bought a tool at a bike shop. Mostly I go for stuff I want to finger fuck first. Bars, a saddle, some new tape I want to try out.

>>2073269
Yeah chuds were buying TP and ammo at the start of it

Haha fucking chuds hoarding TP *wipes ass with bath towel*

>>2073468
>>2073469
And the average NPC never once realized that all of these measures were to guard against his fellow man, not a memevirus. All of the social, personal financial, and economic strife came from the government and corporations (as if there's a difference) not the memevirus.

>>2073211
different strokes

>>2073239
>off-road mountain trail riding
>700c
are you retarded? you better not be.

>>2073224
The useless faggot is selling his channel with the "making a difference" angle. He has nothing else to offer and that's why his business failed.

>>2073450
>or blame the absence of proper tools/workspace.
have you seen his videos? he doesn't have proper tools or workspace. nigga crimps brake/derailleur cables with fucking wire cutters.

does the lived experience of a bike shop owner trump the lived experience of a youth who has been stealing bikes for the last 20 years?

>>2073563
Kek. Link? Someone who is uneployed should make a compilation.

>>2073623
im not bothering to look shit up again but his video on how bad toobless is is fucking embarrassing, it must be a false flag. nigga does not have a tire changer, he does not even have proper levers. just the cheap nylon shits that come with mid-range tubes, not even a metal spoon. and he doesnt even have a surface to put the wheel on. he sits in a normal ass wooden kitchen chair and does it in his lap. even i lay my wheels on top of an old hand truck tire to do that kinda shit so i can work with that shit on a table but still have it flat and not rolling around or falling over

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>>2073563
He's got all this property but looking at the pics on google reviews the inside is a tiny dump with crap just piled everywhere.

>>2073673
>mcmansion schizo roof lines
>drab "for resale" color scheme
weathervane at ground level
>random crap thrown in the bushes
A Spiritual Boomer, a true Old Soul. Vanquish him.

>>2073698
What is that meme site that posted mcmansions with roast captions? It seems like zoomer urbanists decided that was a whole new brand of humor and are trying to be that. You're not that. Stop it.

>>2073702
it's not humor i am genuinely calling his business ugly and tasteless, much like he himself is

>>2073702
Scuffed Realtor is a good watch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zb2tva0Kyd8

>>2073159
TL;DR:
>I like fixing old bikes
>I don't want to learn how to repair anything modern

>>2073741
you forgot
>If you have an old bike I won't repair it.
>I only work on modern (2010) bikes
>unless you're poor in which case your bike isn't worth my time to maintain, just get a new one
>or you're rich in which case your bike already obsolete, just get a new one

and then he cries about how he doesn't move enough bikes

I'd ask why the average LBS doesn't transition to being more of a garage and focusing on service if selling bikes just gets them BTFO by amazon, but if the average bike "mechanic" is like this guy...

Does the LBS have any real reason to exist? You can get bikes cheaper online. They can't fix the ones even they sell you. What's the fucking point?

>>2073768
Car mechanics make bank because repairing cars is very complicated, the tools cost thousands of dollars, and the market is huge and in general has more money. Meanwhile 90% of bike maintenance jobs can be handled in ten minutes by any retard with <$100 of tools from amazon and a link to the Park Tool channel, and the other 10% are just as easy except the tools are more expensive. The people propping up bike shops with $200 "tuneups" or $25 tube installs are only doing it because they don't know how trivial and cheap it is to do it all themselves.

>>2073785
Lol no mechanics are incredibly paid thanks to the bullshit book hour system, mix that with being drenched in carcinogenic oils and solvents all day every day and being a mechanic sucks big time. Life expectancy? Cancer before 50 and that's with decent genes. The cherry on top is the predatory tool system now modern cars require to service. Fuck the modern auto industry, I'm glad I quit being a mechanic over a decade ago

>>2073794
>incredibly paid
incredibly underpaid, I meant. How little mechanics are paid is the first biggest bullshit of being one

>>2073794
car mechanics(corporate entity) make bank even if the car mechanics(human) do not receive a proper slice

>>2073785
>>2073768
they're there so you can buy into "The Community" and be judged by fat retards with more money than skill, not to provide any kind of good or service

>>2073159
I am about 75% sure that he is our resident steel bike and rim brakes poster

>>2073261
>billionaires
Are either, jews, leftists, neo libs, outright democrats or all the above. You have like 2 supposedly right wing billionaires. All the other ones are libtards or pretending to be libtards to fit in with the neo lib world order we exist under. Why do you libtards think think you are fighting the system when you are literally the system from media, to culture, to corporations and finance? Blorphf was voted in two times to "blow up the system" when Americans became too disgusted by it.

Why are bike shop oldheads so scared of e-bikes

they're dead simple, you don't need that much extra floor space, you can just sell decent bikes with conversion kits, why do bike "mechanics" fear electricity so much??

>>2073866
Same reason the motorcycle repair shop won't replace the bottom bracket on your Endurace.

>>2073868
the motorcycle repair shop will absolutely accept my Emmo Zone II Max thoughbeit, as well as my Honda Cub

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>>2073866
Liability, insurance, return on labor hours, risk/reward. It's tempting to think 'this is easy, I can help my customer with their e-bike and get them back to riding again - the world is a better place and I'll have made $50/hour doing it!' But then you get you absolutely fucked over by a bike that requires 5 hours of disassembling all the wiring to remove the wheel so you charge the customer for a flat fix. Or the customer brings the bike in 'working' and then you try to do a tuneup and something goes wrong and the unique Chinese part is practically unattainable and then you're on the hook to by the customer a new bike. Or your insurance agent walks in and says 'you can continue to have property insurance, or you can service those firetrap bikes in your shop, but you can only have one' and so it's an obvious choice to turn away bikes from brands that you don't sell.

For an established bike shop that has a reliable stream of customers, taking on dubious E-bikes is a lot of risk for minimal reward. There are shops out there that take in 'XYZZAZZ' brand bikes, scooters and other E- trash, but they tend to be the scrappy underdogs starting out that are desperate for revenue.

>>2073866
>>2073870
An ebike isn't a "bicycle", it's a shitty moped with vestigal pedals created to exploit legal loopholes and is used almost exclusively by people who'd rather not own a bicycle at all but don't want to deal with the paperwork or pricetag of any of the superior forms of motorized transportation.

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>>2073871
>a bike that requires 5 hours of disassembling all the wiring to remove the wheel
case in point of "bike" "mechanics" not understanding electricity or modern e-bikes

they have these things called "plugs" and "sockets" now, and even when they didnt, only the maddest of men (who are DIY chads who will never go to their LBS anyway) would do anything more permanent than ring/spade connectors on a terminal block

>Or the customer brings the bike in 'working' and then you try to do a tuneup
maybe dont snip random cables, i know most "mechanics" don't know how to remove a brake or shifter cable and simply re-terminate it in favor of cutting everything they can find, but just take it easy with the tin snips for once. otherwise you can't really "tune up" a motor controller or the motor itself beyond maybe taking a drivetrain apart and greasing it/replacing or cleaning up gears and an average seasonal tune-up of an e-bike is largely going over the same stuff as you would on a normal bike

>and something goes wrong and the unique Chinese part is practically unattainable
most of the stuff out there now is cross-compatible because in typical chink fashion it's the same two or three designs and the race is to produce it the cheapest possible because IP/patent law isn't real in moonland

>firetrap bike insurance
and yet the Tesla dealership up the street is insured, hmmmm

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bringing my 2-stroke converted bike to the LBS and demanding they do a full carb rebuild for me

>>2073874
If they won't work on a walmart bike what the fuck makes you think they'll work on your walmart bike with an aliexpress incendiary device bolted onto it?

>>2073877
the promise of money in exchange for goods and services

>>2073878
Baby steps. I recommend starting by convincing them to accept the risk and liability of working on chinesium Huffys and Schwinns and then, after you've won that war, move on to convincing them to accept the risk of fixing your 5,000W TONGSHANGCHENG motor held on with zipties and hose clamps.

Anyway if it's so simple why aren't you doing it yourself?

>>2073876
>carb rebuild
What the fuck does this even mean? Are you asking your bike mechanic to synthesize Splenda for you to cook meth now?

>>2073880
>Anyway if it's so simple why aren't you doing it yourself?
I do though, because what few local bike stores are in my town are either populated by retards and don't even offer wheel building services, or are just a Giant/Trek outlet and do not offer service at all in favor of just total replacements for warranty holders

>>2073882
>I do though
So what's the problem then? Are you just butthurt that society correctly views you as lower status than normal bike owners and treats you accordingly?

>>2073876
Why is this allowed?

>>2073887
Sometimes it's just better all around to let people remove themselves from the gene pool.

>>2073876
What the fuck, why would someone do this? Weren't ebikes enough of an explosion hazard?

>>2073898
It's called a DUIcycle.

>>2073876
I just threw up in my mouth a little.

>>2073898
Its older than an ebike

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>>2073971
Zayum that thang older than 1993?
Fr thas some pristine classique bike

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opening up a new LBS and garage but for ebikes and class 2 "emotos" only

tag urself to start working there at 11$/hr (tips withheld)

>>2073159
>cables
every one of his videos where he "adjusts" brakes or shifters, the first thing he does is cut the cable. i dont think he actually knows that cables can be re-used for more than one ride despite also being a Hydro Hater

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>>2073973
Yes by about 90 years

>>2074027
not the same bike

>>2074032
You have autism

>>2073172
i fucking hate this redditard opinion

90s MTBs are SHIT

they have super stiff heavy tubing in tiny triangles that make ride quality the worse you can possibly imagine
they have gay spacing so tires are limited and stupid outdated drivetrain options
shit brakes
shit geometry that has you hunched over like a road race bike

>>2074048
There's plenty of 90s mtbs made with light tubing
What the fuck does gay spacing even mean? Most are 135, if it's 130 and steel you can stretch it, 26 tire options are ok and you can put modern drivetrains on them
The rim brakes don't work meme is so fucking boring.
You can just put a shorter stem on it and get upright handlebars which is what everyone does when turning them into commuters.

>>2074048
>90s MTBs are SHIT
just because you bought a Kroger MTB that fell apart two weeks later..
>t. has a 90's Specialized Rockhopper that still works today

>>2074041
no u

>>2074027
WTF why was this allowed? Is there literally any advantage to this over a modern gravel bike that isn't cucked by gas chambers?

>>2074027
>catches fire and explodes
This will never catch on.

>>2074027
Thank you i love having to straddle a tank of highly explosive compounds just to get anywhere. This definitely has many advantages over a normal bike and I am not just a fat fuck. There are many good reasons why this crackhead design should be allowed on public roads and it is definitely very safe and will only get safer as retards buy them and modify them to have bigger motors and smaller wheels.

>>2074027
Now, I had to do something I'm ashamed of. I had to put a call to a subroutine that I stuck right here. I'm kind of ashamed of that. And as a matter of fact, God just questioned my judgment. He said, "Terry, are you worthy to be the man who makes the temple?" If you are, you must answer: is this niggerlicious, or is this divine intellect? And that's the question. I'll leave you with that. You know, Trek -- they ask you interview questions. Well, the kind of question I face on the job is: is this niggerlicious? Is this too much voodoo for our purposes? For our mission statement? Our mission is to be a modern Raleigh. Is this too much unracing? This is unracer; the question is "is this too much?". And this is the hardest question you could ever face in Bicycle Engineering.

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>>2074048
>they have gay spacing
*sips Liquid Nutrition* Darn straight. Now this is a bike with proper spacing and can crush any trail OR road!

>>2074027
What the fuck is this lkmao

>>2074027
Imagine being an LBS owner when this is the kind of nonsense people bring through your doors everyday. I don't blame OP for just retiring instead of accepting these explosion hazards into his home.

>>2074027
How did someone ever think this was a good idea?

>>2073159
I keep forgetting that this guy and I Know A Guy Bicycles are two different people. I like the latter much more. This guy comes off as a whiny bitch.

>>2074438
His entire account is just him being a curmudgeon.

redditor urbanite cyclists are such insane egomaniacs

>>2074468
I miss the days when people tried to justify their dislike of others using words instead of just inserting "reddit" before the demographic in question and calling that an opinion

>>2074461
theres being a curmudgeon and then theres being incompetent


scotty kilmer is a curmudgeon

this guy is just an ignorant retard who thought a subscription to Park Tool thinking it makes him a mechanic to have a shitty t-handle socket holder in copyrighted blue instead of dollar store red

>>2074512
I honestly haven't been able to sit through any of his videos to see his technical skills so I believe you. He's just so unlikeable.

>angry commie bugman chases you out of his shop for walking in with a walmart bike then goes out of business
vs.
>cheerful guy with a successful and growing business happily takes your money to fix your botched DIY repairs on your halfords shitheap and compliments the paint job while he's at it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahF2vsuX49w

>>2074590
he seems nice but

>I DONT EVEN KNOW WHAT THE ISSUE IS BUT LETS GET ER ON THE STAND

nigga the client came in with a complaint. otherwise you wouldnt have his bike. what was the original complaint

>>2074627
gears don't work, innit

>>2074647
i would simply ask the (L)USER if they mean they cant shift, or if the gear isnt moving properly on the hub, or what

if its just
>gears don't work, innit
ticket closed; gear appears to still have corporeal form, no fault found

If you're so smart why don't you own an LBS?

We’ve all lived the nightmare. A new tech shows up at the co-op, and you try to be welcoming, but he can’t seem to get up to speed; the questions he asks reveal basic ignorance; and his work, when it finally emerges, is so unracer that it ultimately must be rebuilt from scratch by more competent people. And yet his sponsors--and/or an actual recruiter, if your store has been infested by that bureaucratic parasite--swear that they only scout above-average/A-level/top-1% people.

It’s a big problem, especially now. There’s a boom on. I get harassing emails from recruiters every day. Everyone’s desperate to hire mechanics… but mechanics are not fungible. A great tech can easily be 50 times more productive than a mediocre one, while bad ones ultimately have negative productivity. Hiring one is a terrible mistake for any organization; for an LBS, it can be a catastrophic vibe-killer. So how can it happen so often?

Like many of the hangovers that haunt modern bicycle engineering, this is ultimately mostly Wal*Mart's fault. Back when they were the evil empire where everyone secretly wanted to work, they were famous for their Schwinn, Nakamura, and eventually Ozark Trail bikes (Why with Shimano groupsets?) and, of course, they asked new bike assemblers about mechanical engineering theory; "Tell me which force affects a cantilever the most..."

So what should a real interview consist of? Let me offer a humble proposal: don’t interview anyone who hasn’t accomplished anything. Ever. There is no excuse for bicycle mechanics who don’t have a tournament, event, or even one Critical Mass they can point to and say, “I won this, all by myself!” in a world where Strava and RidePal have free service tiers, and it costs all of $25 on AliExpress to buy everything you need to build a top-end racing bike.

>>2075060
what kind of schizo rambling is this? you either know how to fix a bike and are up to date with latest standards or not, simple. Pray you get hired by a reputable store to train yourself if rusty on new standards and learn.