Best repair shop for gears (Dublin)

grizzly

I've always had trouble finding a place in Dublin to do a decent tune up on my gears. Most of the time I'll bring in my bike with issues with the derailer rubbing and they can never quite getting it right.

Can anyone recommend a good shop for this?

magicbastarder

what side of the city are you?

triggermortis

Can you not have a go yourself? YouTube has lots of good videos showing exactly what to do (GCN springs to mind as I used them recently) and it’s a lot easier than you think - unless something is damaged or incorrectly fitted in which case, you could be a while...

triggermortis

triggermortis wrote: »

Can you not have a go yourself? YouTube has lots of good videos showing exactly what to do (GCN springs to mind as I used them recently) and it’s a lot easier than you think - unless something is damaged or incorrectly fitted in which case, you could be a while...

Was that the one for re-indexing ? Followed that one myself a few weeks ago when I had some noise going back up the cassette and took me about an hour to sort. I'll be much quicker next time now I know what I'm doing.

smacl

triggermortis wrote: »

Can you not have a go yourself? YouTube has lots of good videos showing exactly what to do (GCN springs to mind as I used them recently) and it’s a lot easier than you think - unless something is damaged or incorrectly fitted in which case, you could be a while...

First time doing it can be very frustrating but well worth learning to do. My advice would be do it with the bike setup on a turbo with some resistance. Also worth checking for anything interrupting the clean movement of the cable and replace cables if in doubt.

grizzly

magicbastarder wrote: »

what side of the city are you?

Centre and west.

triggermortis

smacl wrote: »

First time doing it can be very frustrating but well worth learning to do. My advice would be do it with the bike setup on a turbo with some resistance. Also worth checking for anything interrupting the clean movement of the cable and replace cables if in doubt.

I learned that it is impossible to index gears when you have fitted a brake outer, as it has more give and won't take enough cable tension to work correctly!

OP, sorry don't know any bike shops in your area but google will find you some. All should be able to help you out

smacl

triggermortis wrote: »

I learned that it is impossible to index gears when you have fitted a brake outer, as it has more give and won't take enough cable tension to work correctly!

I learned it doesn't matter how loudly or floridly you swear at the bike, it doesn't remove chain rub

Mycroft H

smacl wrote: »

I learned it doesn't matter how loudly or floridly you swear at the bike, it doesn't remove chain rub

I've also recently learnt that swearing at it doesn't make it go any faster.

smacl

Mycroft H wrote: »

I've also recently learnt that swearing at it doesn't make it go any faster.

Funny enough though, I've also found there's no way of removing a bottom bracket that doesn't involve a lot of swearing.

cython

grizzly wrote: »

Centre and west.

If you really don't think you can get to grips with it yourself, then Dara here sounds like he might be in your neighbourhood and he's a bit of a perfectionist, so should see you right.