08-26-2013, 06:14 AM
I don't see where you can say nothing was done. It takes effort to get the bike tore down enough to check; then it takes time to go through each valve. And then you have to put it all back together (without having spare parts leftover!).
What did you learn? That the valves were in still in spec. which tells you for YOUR bike ridden the way YOU ride should be good to go for a long time. Before this was done you could not say for sure if that was the case. You could make an educated guess; make conjecture or assume this was the case; but now you KNOW.
But if you're just going to check; you can do this yourself?* Checking is time consuming (as the bill you received proved) but not really all that difficult. At some point if you find a valve out of spec. you can decide if you want to try replacing a shim on your own (for this bike I have no idea if it's easy or not).
Or get a bike that adjusts with a screw and lock nut (and perhaps fewer cylinders) or has hydraulic adjustment then this becomes a non-issue.
*Meh! I see that you are going to. I gotta read the names of posters more carefully.
What did you learn? That the valves were in still in spec. which tells you for YOUR bike ridden the way YOU ride should be good to go for a long time. Before this was done you could not say for sure if that was the case. You could make an educated guess; make conjecture or assume this was the case; but now you KNOW.
But if you're just going to check; you can do this yourself?* Checking is time consuming (as the bill you received proved) but not really all that difficult. At some point if you find a valve out of spec. you can decide if you want to try replacing a shim on your own (for this bike I have no idea if it's easy or not).
Or get a bike that adjusts with a screw and lock nut (and perhaps fewer cylinders) or has hydraulic adjustment then this becomes a non-issue.
*Meh! I see that you are going to. I gotta read the names of posters more carefully.