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Do bike shops not rely on child labour anymore to fix easy stuff?
Round by me, £17 is pretty much the value of the bike everyone is riding.
THe price of a fully marked up tube, i.e roughly £4 + something for the schoolboy mechanic (£3ish) has always been the way independent bike shops that I know of, run. And it seems to work pretty well.
Whenever I see people with stuff wrong with their bikes, I cant help but offer to fix it.
bikes are just so simple and undaunting to fix, paying for labour just seems scandalous to me.
If youve got the appropriate parts & tools everything is so incredibly straight foward.
I tend to fix all my bikes without spending any money at all though, recycling etc. A bit more tricky!