Cassette & chain, fitted price?
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Took my ebike into my local bike shop for some warranty work on the motor, and asked them to replace my chain & cassette like for like at the same time.
Cassette - Shimano SLX CSM7000 11-46T
Total price £108, which I thought was expensive.
To be fair I didn't ask for a quote, as id seen they had the cassette for sale at £45, I reckoned no more than say £15 for a chain.
So does £108 seem expensive considering labour charges?
Cassette - Shimano SLX CSM7000 11-46T
Total price £108, which I thought was expensive.
To be fair I didn't ask for a quote, as id seen they had the cassette for sale at £45, I reckoned no more than say £15 for a chain.
So does £108 seem expensive considering labour charges?
Edited by LeadFarmer on Wednesday 13th February 21:41
Jasper3.0 said:
Buy a chain whip and cassette tool and diy. Will pay for itself.
I got one of these tools from Decathlon - really neat and far easier/quicker/safer to use than a chain whip:https://www.decathlon.co.uk/chain-whip-cassette-re...
I'd also suggest a torque wrench might be a decent investment - quite a few things on bikes need a decent heft behind them but aren't good to overtighten.
LeadFarmer said:
Took my ebike into my local bike shop for some warranty work on the motor, and asked them to replace my chain & cassette like for like at the same time.
Cassette - Shimano SLX CSM7000 11-46T
Total price £108, which I thought was expensive.
To be fair I didn't ask for a quote, as id seen they had the cassette for sale at £45, I reckoned no more than say £15 for a chain.
So does £108 seem expensive considering labour charges?
It's not £48 to fit it, it's £48 for knowing how to fit itCassette - Shimano SLX CSM7000 11-46T
Total price £108, which I thought was expensive.
To be fair I didn't ask for a quote, as id seen they had the cassette for sale at £45, I reckoned no more than say £15 for a chain.
So does £108 seem expensive considering labour charges?
Edited by anonymous-user on Wednesday 13th February 21:41
LeadFarmer said:
Took my ebike into my local bike shop for some warranty work on the motor, and asked them to replace my chain & cassette like for like at the same time.
Cassette - Shimano SLX CSM7000 11-46T
Total price £108, which I thought was expensive.
To be fair I didn't ask for a quote, as id seen they had the cassette for sale at £45, I reckoned no more than say £15 for a chain.
So does £108 seem expensive considering labour charges?
Depends on their overheads I suppose. Shop rent, business rates and employees to pay. In this world of "Wiggle" we're often shocked at how much things cost in the LBS world. Cassette - Shimano SLX CSM7000 11-46T
Total price £108, which I thought was expensive.
To be fair I didn't ask for a quote, as id seen they had the cassette for sale at £45, I reckoned no more than say £15 for a chain.
So does £108 seem expensive considering labour charges?
Edited by LeadFarmer on Wednesday 13th February 21:41
Comes down to how much you value your own time and whether or not you're happy to learn how to maintain your bike or pay someone else to do the work whilst you do other things.
Could you have done the job yourself? Or would you've had to shell out on tools? And then wait for those tools to arrive...only to find that, at some point, you don't have the right tool and on and on it goes. Not to mention, do you know what to do and how to do it? Would you spend a few hours figuring out how to do a specific bike job or would you rather pay someone else to do the job? Some us like to maintain and fix our own bikes, but others just want to ride and let others do the fixing. Either way, the price is either time or money. Do it yourself and you save money but lose time, which you'll never get back. Pay someone else, and you lose money but gain your own time.
You'll probably find that they have a fixed price for jobs and I suspect with yours it was fitting the cassette £XX, fitting/adjusting the chain £XX and then re-indexing the gears or whatever £XX. That's how my LBS does it, each specific job is a fixed price which is between £10 and £15. If it takes them 2 hours to do something then the price is still the same.
FukeLreeman said:
keirik said:
It's not £48 to fit it, it's £48 for knowing how to fit it
£48 for knowing how to fit a chain? Are they that hard to fit? FukeLreeman said:
keirik said:
It's not £48 to fit it, it's £48 for knowing how to fit it
£48 for knowing how to fit a chain? Are they that hard to fit? keirik said:
well its chain and cassette, so requires tools to remove the cassette, plus set up and index afterwards, plus the OP doesnt know how/doesnt want to do it, so it's obviously hard enough
What indexing is required for changing a cassette? Ive never done it on my mechanical Ultegra and my eTap. I run 11-28 but might swap to 11-32 on a trip to the mountains but that's just 5 minute cassette swap and a tweak of the B limit screw.
Mark83 said:
What indexing is required for changing a cassette? Ive never done it on my mechanical Ultegra and my eTap.
I run 11-28 but might swap to 11-32 on a trip to the mountains but that's just 5 minute cassette swap and a tweak of the B limit screw.
Fitted a new rear wheel (with a different hub) and new cassette to my road bike last night. Needed half a turn tweak on the barrel adjuster to get it shifting perfectly. Took <2 mins. I run 11-28 but might swap to 11-32 on a trip to the mountains but that's just 5 minute cassette swap and a tweak of the B limit screw.
Agree with above poster, looks like E-bike specific chains are more like £30.
just checked what Evans charge, they do stuff for £15 per 15 mins. I would have thought a decent mechanic could swap a cassette and chain in 15 mins, 30 mins max. So £30....
Edited by lufbramatt on Friday 15th February 08:58
Connectors said:
FukeLreeman said:
keirik said:
It's not £48 to fit it, it's £48 for knowing how to fit it
£48 for knowing how to fit a chain? Are they that hard to fit? FukeLreeman said:
I've changed plenty of chains and cassettes but I'm just curious why people think it's hard to do, and it warrants £45 knowing how to do it?
I’m not sure anyone mentioned it’s difficult to do per se, although much like anything, it someone does it for you there’s a cost. The lack of clarity is from the OP. We have his idea of the breakdown on parts vs labour, rather than the actual amount he paid for this work.
Some people are not mechanically minded ,seen people struggle with punctures ,£10 at Lbs
Also seen damage done by tackling the seemidly easy maintenance ,rear cassette chain sprocket ,fair amount of tools req, wip ,sprocket tool plus wrench , torque wrench set of Allen keys lock tight , gear check test ride, £45 odd not bad .
The funniest sign at lbs in Morzine bike repairs extra £10 if you know how to do it £15 extra pound if you tell us how to do ,it and extra £20 if your friend knows how to do it .
Also seen damage done by tackling the seemidly easy maintenance ,rear cassette chain sprocket ,fair amount of tools req, wip ,sprocket tool plus wrench , torque wrench set of Allen keys lock tight , gear check test ride, £45 odd not bad .
The funniest sign at lbs in Morzine bike repairs extra £10 if you know how to do it £15 extra pound if you tell us how to do ,it and extra £20 if your friend knows how to do it .
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