A few weeks ago I did a race in the freezing, pouring rain. It ruined my bike.

We went to the LBS to buy new parts: chain, brake pads, cassette, shifting cable and housing . . .

DH was going to fix my bike but (surprise, surprise) he decided he didn't have time and told me to go ahead and have LBS do the fixes. It took awhile for all the parts to come in but finally last week Thursday LBS called and said my bike was done. I'm a bit on edge because I haven't ridden since that last race AND I have Iceman(!!!!) this coming weekend!

I go to the LBS and immediately the mechanic has me sit down. He then explains that they haven't been able to fine-tune the shifting and that it isn't working properly. So they went ahead and ordered a different cassette--Shimano Mountain. DH had ordered 10 sp. SRAM. LBS believes they can get it to work with the new cassette. But . . . it will be a few days before they can get one in!!!

They did give me a demo but it's too big.

DH is mad because he thinks LBS ordered the wrong cassette and that a SRAM cassette should work just fine. LBS is telling me one thing, DH another. I don't know enough about bikes to know what's what.

Anyways, 5 days and counting down and I still don't have a bike to ride I am soooo not looking forward to getting the bill for this repair.