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MoneySaving for cyclists discussion
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Those videos are great, I've used them many times. It's still so much better to get hands on instruction and be able to ask questions more interactively.
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Sure but for the average cyclist it's something you take to the bike shop/chain store to fix, for the amateur they are sufficient for almost all needs from changing brake pads to indexing gears. Anything more complicated needs tools as well as time and training and there is little demand for it, hence not many paid courses.
That said, we have a local second hand bike shop/training place just down the road but it's £55 for the intro course which is basically changing inner tubes and setting up brakes which can be done easily with a youtube video. They do an NVQ level 4 day course as well for £450 but the course is more aimed at people who want to become bike mechanics and for the average rider, it's not needed
Sam Vimes' Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness:
People are rich because they spend less money. A poor man buys $10 boots that last a season or two before he's walking in wet shoes and has to buy another pair. A rich man buys $50 boots that are made better and give him 10 years of dry feet. The poor man has spent $100 over those 10 years and still has wet feet.
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