My shifter was HARD to get from 2nd and onwards then suddenly it would not move above 2nd, so I took it to a bike shop that was in Islington or Kipling near Lakeshore ave and they flatly refused to even work on it with one mechanic telling me "Sorry we don't take those kind of jobs, it's very hard to work with gear boxes/transmissions". I then took it to another shop where they spent about 1 week with my bike and $500 dollars later the bike was still having problems with 2nd gear and upwards, to a lesser degree but the problem was still there. Rode it like that for more than a year until the problem came back and I went to Rosey Toe's finally.
2 days and only $320 later I was called to go get my bike. This 55-something guy with white hair and a ponytail (looks like a skinny Hell's Angel member but he's a nice guy) had opened up my gear box and finally repaired it. He told me that the last shop had put back a bent part instead of just ordering a new one, so the bent part was creating conflict in my gear box. My bike is finally the same normal bike as before and it feels GREAT not to have to grunt and flex my foot so hard to change gears.
Kudos to Rosey Toes and its pony-tailed, white-haired tattooed old chap there, he knows his stuff.
2 days and only $320 later I was called to go get my bike. This 55-something guy with white hair and a ponytail (looks like a skinny Hell's Angel member but he's a nice guy) had opened up my gear box and finally repaired it. He told me that the last shop had put back a bent part instead of just ordering a new one, so the bent part was creating conflict in my gear box. My bike is finally the same normal bike as before and it feels GREAT not to have to grunt and flex my foot so hard to change gears.
Kudos to Rosey Toes and its pony-tailed, white-haired tattooed old chap there, he knows his stuff.
