Ok, as professional bicycle mechanics, a significant amount of what we do is undoing what home mechanics did at home. You may or may not beleive the number of people who say "I was trying to do (fill in blanlk) and it just doesen't seem to work right, so I am giving it to you to figure out." Most common on the list is "I had some spokes loose so I tighented them..." Occasionally a home mechanic will create a mystery by doing something strange like using parts that are not compatable. Often it takes you a while to find the mistake because your brian just doesn't question that it could ever be set up the way it is. At any rate, here is one we didn't notice until we started to put the bike back together. The first person to spot the problem in the picture, and post what it is in the comments section will get a free waterbottle. Also we know that the chain is not installed, we just hadn't gotten that far when the picture was taken, the problem is more interesting than that. (if you are local, you will have to pick the bottle up at the shop, if you are elsewhere, we will send you a coupon for a free waterbottle with order from our website. Contest excludes employees and people who saw this bike while in the shop.)
Update: Congrats to Peter who was the first to spot the problem. As a side note, it may interest you that on this same bike they asked us to install this crank....
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