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VERY BAD Riese und Mueller customer service   Message List  
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Re: VERY BAD Riese und Mueller customer service

Hello Giovanni,

perhaps it helps if you direktly contact one person instead of the whole team
where anybody could, but everybody thinks that somebody will ...
From the profiles, it looks like Annik would be your best contact:
http://www.en.r-m.de/company/test/sales/annik-fuchs/
annik@...

One shop that sends spares on short notice (at least inside Germany, but
possibly whole Euro-zone) is faltrad-direktor.de in Berlin (Christoph is not
Italian speaking).

If you desribe your problem here (or in a PM to me), I will look for a solution.
I have built two of my Birdies from scratch, so I might have encountered your
difficulties in the process. I stock no spares apart from rims, tubes and some
tyres, though.

If you look for information, you should have a look at
http://www.birdy-freunde.de/
which contains a wealth of information on Birdy-related matters with lots of
self-explanatory pictures. Texts are mostly in German only, but a translation
program might still give a pretty good idea.

\_|
O°O Carsten

--- In birdybike@yahoogroups.com, "gbettolo" <mc2006@...> wrote:
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> Thank you for your reply Carsten.
> However I asked to Riese und Mueller several times to indicate me a new
reseller where to buy the spare parts, but they didn't reply. Secondly I think
that Riese und Mueller have to support directly the customers of countries where
isn't any retailer or have to clearly indicate on their WEB pages one or more
international reseller that these customers can contact.





Sun Oct 25, 2009 7:37 pm

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I'm an Italian and purchased by a German reseller on January 2005 a touring Birdy. On March 2009 I contacted by e-mail the German reseller to obtain info about...
gbettolo
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Oct 25, 2009
2:25 pm

Hello Giovanni, it is entirely your dealer's responsibility, NOT r-m's. Except in very rare cases (I know exactly one case), r-m only operates with dealers,...
carsten_thies
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Oct 25, 2009
3:34 pm

Thank you for your reply Carsten. However I asked to Riese und Mueller several times to indicate me a new reseller where to buy the spare parts, but they...
gbettolo
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Oct 25, 2009
5:11 pm

Hello Giovanni, perhaps it helps if you direktly contact one person instead of the whole team where anybody could, but everybody thinks that somebody will ... ...
carsten_thies
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Oct 25, 2009
7:37 pm

Dear Carsten thank you for your help. I will tray to order the spare parts by faltrad-director.de. However before to order I need some info. I own a 2005...
gbettolo
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Oct 26, 2009
8:43 pm

Hi It is not advisable to reuse your spokes, you should get new ones. Spokes are vunerable at the elbow joint that laces into the hub - the hole in the hub is...
Andrew Drummond
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Oct 27, 2009
8:02 am

Thank you for your info, Andrew. I'm waiting also for a reply of Carsten and then will contact again r&m to obatin the last info before to order by...
gbettolo
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Oct 27, 2009
8:19 pm

... The easyest way to change the rim is just putting the new rim next to the old one and relocate the spokes one by one to the new rim. Just for comparison: I...
carsten_thies
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Nov 2, 2009
11:23 pm

Hi Carsten are you a Birdy reseller then, not just a knowledgeable user? If so where's your shop, and do you have an online presence - seems silly to keep only...
Andrew Drummond
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Nov 3, 2009
8:30 am

... Yes and no. I am an r-m registered dealer. I'm a specialist for spokes made to measure and small wheels, even occasionally matching hubs and rims that do...
carsten_thies
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Nov 3, 2009
11:26 am

There was some italian guy in BikeFix in London yesterday wanting 10 small wheels, not sure which particular bike though. They have some neat bikes in there,...
Andrew Drummond
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Nov 3, 2009
11:44 am

Hello Giovanni, r-m just called back. I'm afraid I have some bad news. Fork and swingarm are only available as a complete assembly, but NOT YET for the Birdy...
carsten_thies
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Nov 3, 2009
11:53 am

Dear Carsten, thank you for your help! After your news, I decided to use the rollerbrake on the rear wheel and a V-brake on the front. Yes, the rollerbrake is...
gbettolo
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Nov 3, 2009
6:16 pm

About the unavailability of the front fork+swingarm for Birdy disc, I don't undestand why R&M don't want to sell it (they have surely available some...
gbettolo
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Nov 3, 2009
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I am not so sure about the availibility - there may be a backlog. Also, it is quite understandable from a manufacturer's standpoint that selling the disk-brake...
carsten_thies
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Nov 3, 2009
9:56 pm

I could be argued that it is R&Ms responsibility for using such poor distributors... ... I could be argued that it is R&Ms responsibility for using such poor...
Andrew Drummond
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Oct 25, 2009
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