• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

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Typical shop labor rates...

Willlyons

Willlyons

Husqvarna
AA Class
I'm pretty new to the moto world and recently picked up an '09 WR125 from this very website. One of the better decisions I've ever made, I think. Anyways, I'm certainly not gentle with the little whipper snapper, and after a while started noticing a considerable amount of fluid dripping out of my fork legs.

I come from a mountain bike background, and have replaced seals on an old triple clamp Marzocchi Super-T many times but due to time, lack of materials, and intimidation decided to take my bike in to a local shop to get the seals replaced.

In the end, it cost me about $200. 3 hours labor at $65/hour, plus parts. Now, this took me a bit by surprise as I guess I figured it'd be a ~ $100 fix (or less). Anyways, having no experience taking a bike in to get worked on, I'm just wondering if these are fairly standard rates? The shop is a new Husky dealer, the guys are nice and they seem to work on a lot of bikes. I don't have a whole lot of other options in Central Kentucky so I guess I'm just wondering if this sounds standard or I'm getting fleeced.
 
Seems like a lot of time flagged for that job, even if the forks were on the bike. I can typically change out one fork seal in an open cartridge fork in less than an hour, maybe an hour and a half for both of them.
 
yeh that pretty exy(cheaper than that here in OZ even!:eek:) unless he threw a fresh piston & rings in for good measure;). rate ok but 3 hours is pretty rude
 
$65 an hour for shop time is a huge bargain! 3 hours does seem excessive but the rate is awesome. It is $110 hour at my local Euro stealership but I try to avoid them and get my work done at Hall's if possible and they are around $75 an hour which is reasonable to me.
 
Yeah, this was forks on the bike. Anyways, good to know $65 isn't a terrible rate. I just need to figure out how to do it myself anyways, I prefer working on my own bike (isn't that half the reason you own one?) Thanks y'all!
 
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