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bike shops are chill and will usually help**___** out
Or they will charge you $80 to put in a $10 part with 10 min of labor. You gotta find the right one.
Buying tools and DIY is always the correct choice if you don’t have access to them any other way via friends or co-ops. You can also call around and just say you’re poor and don’t want a full service. I’ve gotten things fixed for 10-$20 that way.
I could see a DIY or Fixit/Home Improvements sub working out well. Piracy too honestly.
speaking as a petit-bourgeois person who owns a good bike and basically lives on it rn
bicycles are not as cheap as people think. this might be because my parents bought me a cheap bike from Walmart and I barely rode it.
A full DIY toolkit is usually a $400+ expenditure (that can be shared) and portable repair tools for long trips are an added expense. People also underestimate maintenance costs. Lots of bike parts have to be replaced at ~5K km and if you’re hitting 30km/h regularly for extended periods you’ll be spending a decent amount of cash on tires and chains and brake pads several times a year
all of this is microscopic compared to the maintenance expense and environmental impact of trying to use a car in the same way, however, and bike maintenance can be kind of zen
