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flag yo13bo
Posted: Sep 9, 2015 at 18:47 Quote
Ah, for the valves we have a 10cm strip of rim, with 3 holes drilled into it, displaying American, shraeder and presta valves. I just get them to point to which one it looks like if they're not sure. Amateur road riders just say "the skinny one"
flag Buggyr333
Posted: Sep 9, 2015 at 21:35 Quote
yo13bo wrote:
Ah, for the valves we have a 10cm strip of rim, with 3 holes drilled into it, displaying American, shraeder and presta valves. I just get them to point to which one it looks like if they're not sure. Amateur road riders just say "the skinny one"

Wait, I'm in America and I don't know what you mean by American Vavles.

we just have Schrader and Presta here?
With the exception of the occasional dunlop.
flag el-booto
Posted: Sep 9, 2015 at 21:49 Quote
Buggyr333 wrote:
yo13bo wrote:
Ah, for the valves we have a 10cm strip of rim, with 3 holes drilled into it, displaying American, shraeder and presta valves. I just get them to point to which one it looks like if they're not sure. Amateur road riders just say "the skinny one"

Wait, I'm in America and I don't know what you mean by American Vavles.

we just have Schrader and Presta here?
With the exception of the occasional dunlop.

dunlop=english
presta=french
schrader=american
flag yo13bo
Posted: Sep 9, 2015 at 23:36 Quote
Yeah my bad, meant Dunlop haha.
flag charlie079
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Posted: Sep 10, 2015 at 2:14 Quote
el-booto wrote:
Buggyr333 wrote:
yo13bo wrote:
Ah, for the valves we have a 10cm strip of rim, with 3 holes drilled into it, displaying American, shraeder and presta valves. I just get them to point to which one it looks like if they're not sure. Amateur road riders just say "the skinny one"

Wait, I'm in America and I don't know what you mean by American Vavles.

we just have Schrader and Presta here?
With the exception of the occasional dunlop.

dunlop=DUTCH
presta=french
schrader=american

No way do we use them. Stupid things.

Even if they were invented here lol
flag arnie86
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Posted: Sep 10, 2015 at 6:26 Quote
Q "what kind of bike are you looking for?"

A "Oh I dunno, just a normal bike"

Sure, we have a range of many non-unicycle/non-tricycles in our store, thanks for helping me help you....
flag RunsWithScissors
Posted: Sep 10, 2015 at 6:51 Quote
Customer walks in.

Mechanic puts down wrench and says, "Good morning. How can I help you?"

Customer says, "I'm just looking around"

Mechanic picks up wrench and goes back to work.

Customer immediately says, "I need a part for my bike. I don't know what you call it, but it's the thing behind the doohickie that holds the handlebar..."

Translation: I don't know what I need, but I DO know that I had to interrupt your work twice before sucking you into a game of 20 Questions.

Some day I'm going to waterboard a customer with a dirty shop rag and a quart of Stan's who claims to be "just looking" when they really came in for some specific purpose.
flag whattheheel
Posted: Sep 10, 2015 at 7:29 Quote
Make sure to get video!
flag ICAS
Posted: Sep 10, 2015 at 8:10 Quote
This time of year is especially epic for customer insanity.
flag eicca
Posted: Sep 10, 2015 at 19:30 Quote
...Three times in a row you attach the rear derailleur cable and it's indexed perfect from the get-go.
flag nwthumbs
Posted: Sep 10, 2015 at 20:56 Quote
and then one piece of housing compacts a bit and you spend the next 10 mins fiddling with the barrel adjuster to get it just right Blank Stare
flag rigodon777
Posted: Sep 11, 2015 at 8:52 Quote
Or, you properly stretch your cables before even adjusting anything with them.
flag whattheheel
Posted: Sep 11, 2015 at 9:00 Quote
I was going to say something too.
flag eicca
Posted: Sep 11, 2015 at 9:41 Quote
rigodon777 wrote:
Or, you properly stretch your cables before even adjusting anything with them.

This.
flag nwthumbs
Posted: Sep 11, 2015 at 16:05 Quote
See his original post... It's one thing when you are installing a new rear der only, but when doing new cables how on earth are you supposed to "pre stretch" the cables with out first attaching it to the rear der Blank Stare

 


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