Brick Lane Bikes (BLB) Bike Shop

I went to BLB to ask some questions tonight.
A nice guy answered every of my questions very kindly. Nice.
I went around the shop and at one point I asked another guy how much it would be for them to remove the bottom bracket from one of my bikes. He said 40£. And he was not joking.
Hahahahahaha, wonderfull.
I was about to buy a shit load of parts from them as well as buying a new bike but now I am kind of hesitating. And that's the same every time I go there: coming to buy some parts and leaving so disapointed by the service that I get nothing.
It's crazy how many clients them might loose because treating people like stupid.
BLB, people are not cash machines.

Are you sure the £40 wasn't to replace the BB? That's what they quoted me once, still expensive, but much less than just removing it.

They were a bit aloof sometimes with me, but for the most part they have been really helpful, friendly and interested in what I'm up to.

I'll admit the change seemed to come from them when I went from the "I want to turn this piece of junk into a fixed wheel bike" to "can you show me what spokes I need for this wheel build".

I just think with the MASSIVE popularity of fixed bikes around Brick Lane they must get fed up of people asking basic obvious questions all the time. As soon as you show you're keen and interested in bikes and not just fashion their attitude tends to change.

So all in all, they could be nicer to everyone, and certainly charge less, but they are definitely not the devil incarnate that they are always made out to be.

They did once fuck up an antique 4 speed 1/8th freewheel that I asked them to remove once though grrrr!