I (female) had bought a used motorcycle that I negotiated a great price for but it was not a brand/model that I really knew mechanically. Nor am I that mechanically inclined. Since it was winter & snowy & bike was going to be stored for a few months, decided to pull the battery and put it on a charger. Followed a YouTube video and removed it with no problems in <5 minutes.

Come spring, I reinstalled the battery <10 minutes but it is not really holding the charge. I go to a motorcycle repair shop and ask for a cost estimate to go over the bike and replace the battery. The owner gives me a ridiculous quote based on an outlandish number of labor hours.

I ask for a breakout starting with installing the battery. He proceeds to tell me that it is a 1 to 1.5 hour job and goes into great detail of all the steps involved including a few that he “invented”, safety precautions needed, that he needs to put his best mechanic on it due to the difficulty, etc. Basically, it was talk to the stupid female like she was a 6 year old because she wouldn't know better time

I start laughing and ask if he thinks I'm an asshole. He looks puzzled and I said that he needs to hire a better class of mechanics since it only took me 15 minutes to pull and subsequently reinstall a battery while watching a YouTube video. He got annoyed and asked if he was getting the job. Lol “Bite me” was my response while his mechanics laughed at him.

I am active in the local biker community..I made sure that all the female clubs and several of the male clubs knew what he tried to do. He lost a lot of business