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Saturday, January 1, 2000
Service and Repairs:
We are a full service repair shop. We have the proper tools for the most involved repairs (we love buying tools). We often find ourselves tackling projects that other shops in town were not willing to, and are frequently referred to by other shops for a number of our services (such as hydraulic brake service, and suspension rebuilding).
We take extreme pride in our service work. When you drop your bike off with Bikeworks, you know who is going to be fixing it (Dan and/or Dan), and you can rest assured it's going to be done right (30 years combined shop experience).
Some specialties include:
Wheel Building:
Swinton has built somewhere on the order of seventeen million wheels in the past 20 years, none which has ever broken a spoke, or even come out of true. Seriously, he's really good at building wheels, and really bad at talking himself up.
Wheel build labor rates are $45 each, $85 pair (increased rates may apply for tubeless rims, and ridiculous lacing patterns with “eye”, “foot” or “twisty” in the name).
Suspension Service:
Lucero has extensive practice and experience rebuilding and tuning forks and shocks. He previously worked in Research and Development at Manitou, where he learned the meticulous skills required to be a good suspension tech. He can rebuild nearly any make and model suspension fork, and has a comprehensive supply of seals and oil on hand.Suspension fork service rates start at $60 plus parts, and vary depending on make and model specifics. Our most common service, a full rebuild on a Fox Float with new oils and main wiper seals, for example, is right around $100 after tax.
Hydraulic Brakes:
We do a lot of brake bleeds (and be “we”, we mean “Lucero”). He often finds himself spending an entire day bleeding brakes. We have the proper bleed kits for all major brands, and the experience needed to get it done right (every brand has it’s own little tricks, that make the difference between a mushy brake and a fantastic brake). Lucero might give you the stink eye when you drop off your vintage Magura Marta SL’s for repair (because they are going to ruin his day), but he’ll do the job well, and won’t hold a grudge.We stock a large selection of small hydraulic brake parts (hoses, olives, barbs, etc.) and only use the highest-grade fluids for our bleeds.
Brake bleed service rates start at $25 a brake, $45 a pair.
Frame Prep:
Did I mention we like buying tools? We have all the proper tools to prep your frame, and we keep them sharp. What’s the point in buying a high-end headset if you are going to push it into a crooked headtube? (I guess it still looks pretty, even if your fork sticks every time you turn left). Get your new frame faced and chased, it’s the right thing to do.
Frame prep service rates start at $25 (facing head tube, aluminum) and go up from there, based on a $60/hr shop rate.
About The Shop
Once upon a time, two Dan’s and a Tony were working together at a bike shop. After a number of years, for one reason or another, all three found themselves disgruntled. Incapable of leaving the bike shop world for “big boy” jobs, but unwilling to continue living their lives without gruntle, they decided the only logical decision was to open their own shop. In November of 2007, after several months of manual labor and a lot of help from Charlie the Bikeshop Fairy, Bikeworks ABQ opened its doors for business.
With an accumulated fourty-some years of working in bike shops between them, the Dan’s and Tony had very strong ideas of what made a good bike shop, and even stronger ideas about what made a bad one. With those general ideas as guidelines, Bikeworks ABQ has grown and evolved in a free flowing, natural sort of way since it’s opening in 2007. As a result, we have a small but comprehensive selection of bikes, parts, and accessories on hand. As all three of us are avid cyclists, covering every genre between us, we know what we like, and what we need to stay geared up. If it’s something we use personally, we probably have it for sale. If it’s not something we can get excited about and endorse personally, then you aren’t going to find it in our store.
Bikeworks is a small shop, and we intend to stay that way. Familiar with the difficulty of maintaining a professional and reliable staff at a bike shop, we decided to be exclusively owner-operated. When you walk into our shop, you know whom you are going to be helped by, and you know that person is extremely experienced and personally invested in keeping you as a happy customer.
Furthermore, when you drop your bike off for maintenance or repair at Bikeworks, you know exactly who is going to be working on it. We take great pride in our abilities as mechanics, and have built a reputation for our service work. Quite frequently after tuning a new customer’s bike for the first time, we receive a phone call to let us know that the bike has never run so well, even when it was brand new. When people go out of their way to compliment, rather than complain, on a regular basis, I know we are doing something right. (For more specific details on service and repairs, please see our “Service and Repairs” link from the website.)
So if any of this sounds like the type of bike shop you are looking for, come by and check us out. Say hi and meet the Dan’s and Tony. If you like beer, come by in the afternoon, as we will most likely be pouring pints of something delicious. You are likely to meet a few other like minded cyclists, maybe meet a new riding buddy, and hopefully leave excited to get out and ride!
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