Vent: Talked with a framebuilder at a swap meet and now I'm questioning all my repairs

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Man oh man, I had a buddy who ran into this exact kind of thing. He brought his old steel frame into a shop for a simple brake mount fix, and the guy behind the counter spent twenty minutes telling him how all the brazing was wrong and the whole thing was a ticking time bomb. My friend came out of there feeling like he was riding a death trap, even though the bike had been fine for years. Turns out that framebuilder was just trying to sell him on a new custom frame and made everything sound way worse than it was. Sometimes those swap meet guys are more about flexing their knowledge than actually helping.

the_taylor3d ago

Read an article once that said some bike shop guys do this on purpose-scare people into upgrades they don't need. They call it "upselling with fear". Makes you wonder how many perfectly good bikes got scrapped because of one loudmouth.