Servicing/buckled wheels...

Hello people buckled wheel issue. Basically a friend and I were forced to ride into the potholes/mud you find on the side of country lanes (that drivers use to give way to other cars) by some f**ker in a 'pimped' chav car who was driving way to fast and on our side of the narrow road!
Both wheels are slightly buckled and I am no bike mechanic...yet. I see that Evans cycles charge £15 to 'true' a wheel and as they charge 12.50 (wow) to mend a puncture it may not be such a hard job? I feel that it must be over priced?
My LBS is Blackboy hill cycles (bristol), yet I have never been in there.
Would just like to know if that is over priced and if anyone on here uses my LBS/could reccmend one in bristol
cheers
Both wheels are slightly buckled and I am no bike mechanic...yet. I see that Evans cycles charge £15 to 'true' a wheel and as they charge 12.50 (wow) to mend a puncture it may not be such a hard job? I feel that it must be over priced?
My LBS is Blackboy hill cycles (bristol), yet I have never been in there.
Would just like to know if that is over priced and if anyone on here uses my LBS/could reccmend one in bristol
cheers
Road: Felt AR0, Di2
Touring/commute: Dolan Multricross
TT: PX Exocet Sold because it was like a sail in the wind (sh*t)
Touring/commute: Dolan Multricross
TT: PX Exocet Sold because it was like a sail in the wind (sh*t)
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I'm not sure I'd trust Evans myself, service can be a bit hit and miss depending on which part timer you get.
£15 is about the going rate, my LBS charges that and really wasn't very good, which is why I now do it myself.
I wouldn't recommend Blackboy Hill Cycles, nor Mud Dock, however Bike Bristol in Queens Avenue (opposite Habitat) are very good in my experience (very friendly and helpful, have given me small parts free, lent me tools, offered me 10% discount without asking, just because I had been in a few times). Their priice list shows wheel truing at £7.50-£15. They charge £40 per hour labour (£10 for 15 minutes, £20 for 30) (fair enough) so the wheel truing price suggests it takes between 10 and 20 minutes, also fair enough.
Oh yeah, forgot there is a bikeshop there....although I walk past it everyday on the way to uni!
Thanks to the other repliers also.
Touring/commute: Dolan Multricross
TT: PX Exocet Sold because it was like a sail in the wind (sh*t)
I googled wheel truing and the first result is a handy step by step guide.
If you follow that and do it methodically there's not a lot that can go wrong!
(apart from maybe a spoke snapping and shooting into your eye - ouch)
But £15 to true a wheel! Sorry, that's a f***ing joke. Most competent wheelbuilders can BUILD you wheel for not much more than £10 over the cost of the parts. Trueing a wheel, assuming it's not miles out or bent beyond repair will take anyone who knows what they are doing 5 minutes. Charging more than a fiver is taking the p**s.
Invest a couple of quid in a spoke key, get googling and learn to do it yourself. It's not rocket science and your wheels will go out of true enough times that it's a skill worth learning. Especially at those prices.
You try building a wheel and see how long it takes.
Touring/commute: Dolan Multricross
TT: PX Exocet Sold because it was like a sail in the wind (sh*t)
dunno if thats much cope, I suppose you get what you pay for.
I always assumed it was more of an art-form, and took a day for a pair of wheels?
Awesome! Where can I get a GF like that? Mine makes me pump up her tyres! :roll: