My LBS won't sell me spokes??.....
I'm needing spokes to build up a wheelset for my latest build (A1983 Gitane Pro). So I called my LBS (American Cyclery in SF). To find out how much it might cost for the 64 double butted SS DT spokes that I will need. I was surprised to hear from the store salesman that they do cut spokes to size for customers, but they will not sell spokes anymore unless they build the wheels.
He said they just changed their policy on this recently.
This really sucks cause I relied on them in the past when I built wheelsets for my projects and they sold me spokes with no problems. Now I do not have a shop near me where I can buy spokes and coordinate properly for properly for spoke legnths (I used to bring into their shop the hubs and rims I'll be using the spokes on and they would even calculate the lengths needed for me).
I'm wondering why they changed their sales policy on spokes after selling them so many years with seeminly no problems ( unless we don't know about them)
Last edited by Chombi1; 08-13-22 at 02:45 PM.