New bike stuff

Chris if you are reading this you will be proud!

Not only did I finally go ahead and purchase a new set of wheels and install them myself (including news discs, cog, tires et al), I also went and replaced all the cables on the bike.

Now I am not going to get into pricing but needless to say the wheel set was more than the last bike and the tires contain lots of cool materials such as Kevlar should cause a cold quiver or two.
Now to make things even more exciting we got Griselda a new bike (that you would approve of as well), heck even Shelly would be proud (it is hot pink after all).

Of course now that we have totally over achieved in the bike department I must deliver the coet de grace and tell you that not only did I go ahead and purchase all of the relevant tools but also went and installed two bike pulleys to keep the bikes up off the deck.

K2 why do you suck so?

Don’t you just hate it when a company artificially inflates prices? Today I had just this experience with my mountain bike. You see I had the misfortune of a small nut coming of a bolt that holds the rear-suspension arm in place on my bike. My first thoughts where that this would be incredibly insignificant and I went to REI (where I purchased the bike) to see if they had a spare.

Much to my chagrin they did not. In fairness the bike is a few years old so it is understandable. Not one to admit defeat I decided that I would contact the company (K2 Bike http://k2bikes.com) and would order a replacement bolt and/ or nut. Now to put this into perspective I am thinking that this at most a $0.50 part and that it would probably be grossly marked up to around $5.00. I most certainly did not expect to have to move the 5 over even further to the $50.00 that they are asking for the “attachment kit” that includes replacement bolts for the rear-suspension.

Needless to say I will not be purchasing the $50.00 replacement part and will see what I can find online that will work instead (heck it’s only a bolt after all) and will not be recommending or purchasing another product from K2 as a result.

So in closing I guess the morale of the story is that customers don’t like getting screwed by corporations and are quite happy to take their business and recommendations elsewhere.