Bike shop that stocks Thomson seatpost clamps?

So I broke my seatpost clamp this morning, trying to adjust my saddle before my commute. Not a good start to the day, but not completely unexpected for a Monday.

Anyway, I want to replace it with a Thomson clamp, anyone know of a local shop that stocks them?

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Permalink Reply by Will on April 16, 2012 at 9:29am

Cycle Smithy has one, not a Thomson, but one that will work, and the shop is basically on my way home. Thanks for the recommendation! It's actually not that easy to find a 31.8mm seatpost clamp, not as easy as I would have thought. I called several shops that didn't have one in stock.

I also need a torque wrench, so I hopefully don't do this again.

Permalink Reply by Tony Adams on April 16, 2012 at 10:13am

How could be encourage that? A contest? A bunch of us pledge to spend $X in the next Y days at the shop that wins.They have to come here, post and find clues to win.  It would have to be a pretty large spend to make it worth their while to participate. I'm sure we can come up with a better idea...  I'm just thinking out loud.

h' said:

Would be nice if more bike shops participated here.

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Permalink Reply by Comrade Cycles on April 16, 2012 at 11:16am

I'd be willing to bet you could find one at Johnny Sprockets in Lakeview.

Permalink Reply by Far'arned Retrogrumpalunkus #63 on April 16, 2012 at 12:34pm

That's crazy talk.  Who would get sick of reading about or discussing bikes????


h' said:

I can't help but suspect that bike shop folks get so sick of bike bike bike all day long that the last thing they want to do is talk or read about bikes on the web . . .? 


Permalink Reply by Ash L. on April 16, 2012 at 4:32pm

After work they all spend their evenings on car forums

Permalink Reply by Lanterne Rouge on April 17, 2012 at 1:48am

Ha!

 

I used to sell high end audio/video to help pay for college. A lot of my co-workers used to go home and read/discuss all night on A/V forums; me? No way. 6-8 hours a day is plenty enough to discuss it.

Ash L. said:

After work they all spend their evenings on car forums

Permalink Reply by Will on April 17, 2012 at 1:54am

More like they would get on here during the day, as part of marketing the shop, rather than at night after work.

Permalink Reply by Doug Haynes on April 17, 2012 at 7:42am

During the spring and summer most people who work at a bike shop hardly have time to eat and do their job let alone scour the internet.

The best way to find out who has stuff in stock is to call your local bike shops.

Permalink Reply by Will on April 17, 2012 at 7:51am

True dat. I made many phone calls yesterday. The guy at one shop had an attitude like he couldn't believe I was wasting his time calling for a $10-20 part. Guess what? If you give me that kind of attitude on a $20 part, I'm not coming back to buy a $2,000 bike.

Two shops were super helpful and friendly, those were Kozy on Halsted (the guy actually called all the other Kozy locations, to see if they had the part in stock, and called me back twice) and Cycle Smithy (the guy scoured his parts bins and found several clamps that would work, and had them all waiting for me when I got there).

notoriousDUG said:

During the spring and summer most people who work at a bike shop hardly have time to eat and do their job let alone scour the internet.

The best way to find out who has stuff in stock is to call your local bike shops.

Permalink Reply by Kevin Mulcky on April 17, 2012 at 9:50am

If only there was a thread called "what local shop carries this" that shops could subscribe to...

Permalink Reply by Far'arned Retrogrumpalunkus #63 on April 17, 2012 at 10:16am

+1

Amazon almost always has it and it's simple and easy.  Local shops have to step up if they want to "earn" the extra dollars they claim they are worth by giving this so-called "extra service" that online merchants are supposedly not giving us. 

h' said:

OK, what about the fall and winter?

It makes no sense to me that, during the slower season, shops wouldn't spend at least a little time speaking up if they have something someone is searching for. I've seen staff surfing during moments of boredom in more than a few shops.

(BTW last time I called a bike shop to see if they had something they told me no, and I found out later they actually had several  . . .)


notoriousDUG said:

During the spring and summer most people who work at a bike shop hardly have time to eat and do their job let alone scour the internet.

The best way to find out who has stuff in stock is to call your local bike shops.

Permalink Reply by Ash L. on April 17, 2012 at 10:56am

A lot of shops do go the extra mile and contribute a ton to this community. I agree that some are just phoning it in and relying on groupon deals and novice passers by to get by when it would go much further to pander to bike nuts like us. But, no matter what LBSs do they can't under cut Amazon and still turn a profit so they'll never be able to please some people.

I have a great rapport with a couple of shops and have always been blown away by their generosity when I need bell or light donations for my various projects and kiddo events in the city. 

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