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finally got my bike back

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

After $82 and five days, I'm finally on my bike again.

It's very welcome. I like bicycle shop people, they tend to be relaxed and we can always share a laugh at the state of the beater I'm riding. On the other hand they don't tend to be terribly organized and I lost count of how many people I dealt with in finding out the solution for my bike and when I'd see it back. I think it was eightish.

Also not wild about how a $28 estimate reversed, but it's a small price to pay for freedom from vehicular traffic. In this case it was the manual labour on rethreading the steering tube (hope I have that part name right) plus some new brake parts that added up.

Thanks to the confusing correspondence with the shop's many "wrenches" and customer service staff, I wasn't expecting to get my bike back today and found myself cycling home in my office wear in "feels like 42oC" weather.