Mr.Tibbs’ og post here|~

I finally got around to takign my front wheel of my road bike into the shop where i had initially purchased it from, in order to get to the bottom of my leak isssue, which begun a month after i had made the purchase.

Here is my review of the L A Bicycles, 3219 S Hoover St Los Angeles, CA 900

as I wrote it in Yelp and also City Search.

THE WORST EXPERIENCE EVER!!!!!!!
You know that feeling you get that just makes you want to punch babies in the Face!, well replace the baby with this Shop owner and that’s pretty much it.
If you cycle Do NOT go here. From the get-go the lady at the counter(probably the owner) was a total bitch.
I had purchased a set of track wheels for my road bike about 6 months ago from them, and it was a ok deal, and at the time they seemed cool.

When i came back to figure out my leak problem, i wished i never bought the wheels from them to begin with.
Right off the bat i could tell that she wasn’t having a good morning, so i was as mellow and civil about my question as possible, before i could finish telling her what i was there for, she interrupted me with “Oh looks like you got hit by someone..” and throws me this attitude as if this is last thing she ever wanted ‘a repeat customer’.

Not only is the service terrible but it seemed like everyone at the shop was running at 100% total incompetency. After storming off to the back to explain in Spanish the problem to one of the coworkers, she begins to yell at me about how someone had drilled a hole in my wheel through the stem hole, in order to fit a different tube stem & , and why i didn’t come straight to them instead of going to my LOCAL shop,which is hell of alot closer then USC.If indeed that was the case, then the guys at my local shop were doing that in order to SMOOTH out the hole from any sharp surfaces, not making the hole larger: the leak was a problem a month after i bought the wheels to begin with).

NO solution to my problem, just attitude and blame ( love that customer service!). Even the hipsters at Orange 20 are more sociable.
After questioning her attitude, i quickly realized that the best solution for me was to just leave.
Who ever wrote that “it’s always friendly ” review, must have been smoking so much crack when they walked into that shop that even peices of poo seemed to be delightful.– F that. Do yourself a favor and headover to the Bicycle kitchen, where people don’t treat you like poop.

just experienced the epidomy of living in Hollywood. If anyone not from Los Angeles ever asks you what Hollywood is really like, well this experience could easily be the most accurate example.

On my bike home from work, which usually involves me riding down Fountain Ave. to Bronson, where there is a large and very old middle school, on the corner, i make my turn ( with out coming to a complete stop at the stop sign), & noticed the newly set up Movie set at the school, which is scheduled to be there for about a week. I also notice about 20 “shady” looking neighborhood men and women, lined up against the fence of a very well known neighborhood Tranny-whore-house, soroiunded by an entourage of LA’s finest. I quickly put my bike away and grab Frankie ( perfect cover for a neighborhood snoop walk), and w make our way towards the movie set. The movie set in fact turns out to be just that, however the 20 shady looking characters were in fact Trany/tweeker/whores, who were getting raided. As I stood there with the rest of the PA’s on the set, I couldt help to think how ironic this whole situation was. The Huge,Tattooed Sleeved PA dudes, thought it was rather amusing as well, and kept pointing out the different Tranys and their ridiculous attire.

Sorry no in action pics, forgot my camera.

Good News: YEA!!!!!!!! Cops found my bike, in one piece!…..In ….La Puente….WTF!!!! Looks like I’ll be trecking out to La Puente tomorrow morning to see what the bored youth of suburban City Of Industry, have done to my precious.