Few ways to enrage a mechanic: tell him you broke a spoke and you need a new one. He'll roll his eyes and ask: what length. Tell him, it's a normal mountain bike. He'll tell you he needs a specific length wheels are different. Tell him, why can't he guess, tell him the model of the frame you own and that wheels came with the bike. As he gets even more annoyed, search for the picture of your bike on your phone and show it to him. Tell him the wheel size. At this point he should be fuming smoke from his ears and getting red, telling you to bring the wheel, or measure the length. Bring the whole bike. Slightly dirty bike. That should make him angry again but not as much that he could tell you to fk off. After he is done ask him whether SRAM shifter will work with Shimano rear mech, keep pretending you don't understand why it shouldn't. When he is done telling you a story, trll him about a friend of yours who coped 12sp SRAM shifter with 10sp Shimano rear mech using a 3mm thick brick. Ask him whether Hope levers will work with Sram calipers, since they use same brake fluid. Ask him if ceramic bearings are a good idea and tell him a long story about trying your friends expensive road bike and how fast it felt and that he told you it's those bearings. Ask him if 23c tyres are faster than 25c. Keep asking why after each answer and nod as if he was very smart. Then at the end tell him "but it makes no sense, because if the..."
Aug. 3, 2017, 11:59 a.m. - another_waki
Few ways to enrage a mechanic: tell him you broke a spoke and you need a new one. He'll roll his eyes and ask: what length. Tell him, it's a normal mountain bike. He'll tell you he needs a specific length wheels are different. Tell him, why can't he guess, tell him the model of the frame you own and that wheels came with the bike. As he gets even more annoyed, search for the picture of your bike on your phone and show it to him. Tell him the wheel size. At this point he should be fuming smoke from his ears and getting red, telling you to bring the wheel, or measure the length. Bring the whole bike. Slightly dirty bike. That should make him angry again but not as much that he could tell you to fk off. After he is done ask him whether SRAM shifter will work with Shimano rear mech, keep pretending you don't understand why it shouldn't. When he is done telling you a story, trll him about a friend of yours who coped 12sp SRAM shifter with 10sp Shimano rear mech using a 3mm thick brick. Ask him whether Hope levers will work with Sram calipers, since they use same brake fluid. Ask him if ceramic bearings are a good idea and tell him a long story about trying your friends expensive road bike and how fast it felt and that he told you it's those bearings. Ask him if 23c tyres are faster than 25c. Keep asking why after each answer and nod as if he was very smart. Then at the end tell him "but it makes no sense, because if the..."