I've reviewed Cynergy in the past with glowing reviews, but they've changed since their beginnings at the old location. Bought bikes from them in 2016 and 2019 and have had them serviced multiple times. But as they've been expanding, the quality of their repair shop has seriously dropped, and they have lost the personal touch Rich and Ruth Ellen used to have with customers. I left my bike with them while out of town, and wanted their mid-tier tune up, with attention to my chain/drivetrain, rear tire/tube, and the brakes. I asked if I needed to take the battery with me to charge it, as I brought it to them on empty, but they claimed they would test ride it before letting me walk with it. While I was out of town, they called me to let me know the bike was ready for pick-up, so I had assumed everything went as we had originally discussed was done.
I tried to pick it up before closing when I was back in town the next week, but I was running late, and wouldn't have enough time to grab my helmet at home and pick up the bike. In the past when I have done repairs there, they were kind enough to loan me a helmet that they use for their test rides, which I would return when they open the next day. I called to confirm they would still do this, but said they could only offer a store credit on a returned helmet, and wouldn't let someone take their helmets out overnight. Which is fine, I understand that I'm asking for a favor here, but it really felt like I was an unknown in this store now, when I was immediately recognized every time I called when Rich and Ruth Ellen were in the store.
I came to pick it up the next day, and discovered that they did not do the full tune-up I requested on the bike, as they felt like it was not at that point yet. They charged me for just a brake bleed and new pads. Not sure why this wasn't communicated or discussed with me the previous week while I was gone on my trip. They also never charged the bike and did a test ride. I was prepared to do some courier work on my bike after picking it up, but was stranded at their shop with a dead battery. They did loan a bike to me to do some deliveries temporarily (some strange cognitive dissonance here: they let me take a bike while they are open out of the store, but not a helmet while they are closed?), but this bike's drivetrain was in horrible repair, and I returned it about an hour and a half of trying to ride it around town. The tech that I returned it to was surprised that I was even allowed to leave the shop with that bike, as it had not been serviced or examined in months. I took my bike out with the charge it got in that time, and just chalked this up to their bike shop being busy, and feeling glad that I at least only had to pay $25 for just getting some minor fixes worked on.
My opinion truly soured the next day, when my rear tire/tube that I specifically asked them to look at had a flat tire from just wearing out. Happened on a newly paved road, no objects in the road. This is absolute malpractice from a repair shop. When having my flat serviced by another shop, they also said that my chain/drivetrain needed work very soon, which I had specifically also asked Cynergy to work on. I get that it might have some life on it and that they think the might be saving me some money. But I had specifically discussed with them when dropping it off that I was going out of town, knew that I was probably a tad early on a tune, but wanted to avoid missing time working on my bike with long turnaround times on repairs right now later in the summer.
In summary, my recent experiences with Cynergy on just one repair include: a complete lack of personal touch with customers, not communicating the work that was actually done with the customer, forgetting to charge my bike, loaning me a bike that was not road ready, and ignoring work on a tire/tube that desperately needed done, and ignoring other areas that I had wanted done. I get that their repair shop is probably overloaded with work, but their workload is coming at a severe expense to quality of work. read more