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went to tokyo fixed gear last weekend to get a phil woods bottom bracket. i don't know anything about them and i'm clueless about how to size and fit them but the dopey hippy behind the till, despite knowing only slightly more about them, as it turned out, assured me he did, and yet made me wait about 1/4 of an hour while he scoured this forum for answers (i realised by looking over his shoulder). He then rang up a 'supplier' and vaguely told me i could bring my bike in the next morning to have one fitted without making eye contact or seeming at all confident it was the correct bb... needless to say there was no bb for me the next day, thank christ, because clearly the lanky long-haired trustafarian fuckwit had no idea what he was talking about, and clearly had no clue about ISO measurements etc and was winging it, i realised later when i dealt with the magnificent Will off hubjub who's been almost godlike in his customer service. The moral of the story: i need to learn more about bikes, admittedly but nonentheless, bum face at Tokyo Fixed Gear, don't pretend to know about bikes when you don't and don't potentially waste peoples' time, money and potentially ruin their bikes. Sorry, needed to get that out of my system.