Working in a bike shop
BlackSpur
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I just got back from my first day's work experience at my LBS. I've had so much fun and hopefully in the next 2 weeks I will be able to learn how to fix my own bike instead of coming on here and asking you guys! There is also the possibility of me getting a prt time job there, which will provide more money for me to waste on my bike.
"Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling." ~James E. Starrs
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get reading the parktools webby."Do not follow where the path may lead, Go instead where there is no path, and Leave a Trail."
Parktools :?:SheldonBrown0 -
bike shops are ace to work in, im working at alpine bikes, inverness. always have a sense of humour when your there, dont take anything personally and always always make tea and coffee
your there to learn and their there to teach you the things you need to know but just have a laugh and see what happens, if you do everything they want and do some things without been asked ie cleaning, making drinks and offering to get lunch, you might be in with a good chance, i was and hey i got a job0 -
Hope it all goes well mate . I'd love to work in a bike shop! Customers would prob complain bout thier bikes fallin to bits after i'd worked on them though :oops: "If i was a slug i don't think i could handle it, i'd just throw myself in the salt pot" -Karl pilkington
Whyte 46, i fall off it alot!!0 -
do you ever find yourself saying that every four minutes IRL as well??nicklouse wrote:get reading the parktools webby.
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I used to work in a bike shop, was great fun...onlyproblem was when I left, I didn't realise just how much I used the workshop....back to "creative" tool solutions for me 8)Brought to you by:
Trix©orp Industries
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Watch out for when then send you to the store for a bucket of steam or a long weight 0
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or a skirting board ladder who has'nt fallen for that one? oh just me? hehehe 0
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Yeah the guys woring there have a great sense of humour. I'm having quite the opposite happen to me Bikedevil - I'm bringing my bike in to use all of their fancy tools and supplies. Built up a BMX for the shop floor today - those gyros are a fiddly pain in the ars*!"Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling." ~James E. Starrs0
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Good for you mate, soak it up but like the guys say don't listen to them when they ask you to go get a left handed screwdriver or a tin of stripey paint!"If you think straight enough, you can see round corners"0
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or a right angled straight edge.......DaZeD aNd CoNfUsEd....0
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or a sky hook...0
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or a glass hammer.......... or perhaps a bubble for a spirit level........0
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or sparks for a grinder.0
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or adjustable pliers.0
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left handed hammer0
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tartan paint.....long stand..... Brought to you by:
Trix©orp Industries
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Shiftng bikes in the warehouse - just my luck that we got a delivery of crappy Raleighs. Some of them had a gross weight of 23.5kgs! They weren't even cheapo full sussers - some imitaion DJ bikes with thick hi-ten frames and stupidly thick "tough looking" forks."Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling." ~James E. Starrs0
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dude how did you get work experience there! we were given a sheet that said do you want to work in a school, shop or office? i'd have given my left arm to work at phil corleys (my local shop)
i havn't had any luck getting a saturday job there eitherI took falling off bikes...and turned it into an art!0 -
thats crap we got a choice, you could either let the school chose somewhere for you or you could go to the place you wanted to and ask0
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we got no such choice. i ended up in a garage which is kinda experience for a bike shop but not like actually getting a job thereI took falling off bikes...and turned it into an art!0
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Blackspur - you working at CycleSportUK or the one on Wharf Road??
I used to work on the bike section of Halfords during my A-Levels, and my brother used to work at CycleSportUK.
When he worked at CSUK, I used to spend soo much time in the workshop...constantly fixing up my bike using the tools there!! 0 -
Ive worked in a bike shop for 12 years now and its such a laugh, couldnt imagine doing any other job, its so easy i just get to play on bikes all day long.Kona Caldera 08, hope, easton, SLX parts.
Kona Kilauea carbon, deciding spec.0 -
school work experience , what a rip off that is , slave labour i tell you , well atleast over here in oz
when i did work experience , we got paid a huge $5 a day ( i think it was per a day) not even enough to pay for transport and lunch0 -
I'm at Cycle Sport - Richardson's is not nearly as good IMHO, and it's a far smaller business. I got my work ex there cause it was on our list, but i asked really nicely and got to see the list before everyone else, so I was able to pick the best job!"Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling." ~James E. Starrs0
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Not cool. did that ozzie guy say they got paid for work experience? and he was complaining! In england we don't get paid at all! hows that for slave labour.I took falling off bikes...and turned it into an art!0
