"pass the 'beaters"

mfhor Wrote:
it's 'mfhor', thanks.

You want to make $20 an hour, and get your hours cut back over winter
Grease under your fingernails every day? People wanting something fo
nothing all the time? Trying to make silk purses out of deathtra
****ters, (or at least trying to keep the customer alive so they ca
make another purchase?) It's not all shooting the breeze about th
relative merits of Fox vs. Marzocchi air forks, you know.

I'd stick to what you're doing now. I'm sure i remember my mum tellin
me to study hard, or I'd become a, as I saw it described once, bik
shop droid. Wait, that was a streetsweeper. I think. Wasn't it?

MH

This shop is 'different'. checkit. Its like the ultimate bike shed an
there is little hi-end stuff unless you ask for it to be 'got' in. H
specialises in getting people on their way on everything from (drool
an Airnimal to the 30yr old Apollo. No carbon fibre in sight (really
and there always seems to be someone in there with their bike up on hi
stand doing their own work.
Bring it orn

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flyingdutch

flyingdutch Wrote:
This shop is 'different'. checkit. Its like the ultimate bike shed and
there is little hi-end stuff unless you ask for it to be 'got' in. He
specialises in getting people on their way on everything from (drool)
an Airnimal to the 30yr old Apollo. No carbon fibre in sight (really)
and there always seems to be someone in there with their bike up on his
stand doing their own work.
Bring it orn!
Been there, done that. Taking up one of the w/shop stands to do
repairs = not making any money out of that stand, cluttering up the
workshop with people, unskilled tool ruination, malicious tool/stock
swipeage, mechanic diversion/distraction on newbie questions. Peter
needs to look at his overheads for being nice to people.

I've taught bike ed at TAFE, shops, BV etc., and you need a fairly long
tether even in these structured situations for people not to take
advantage of your goodwill, your tools and human nature in general.
There's a difference between letting a few trusted customers have a
'lock-in' after hours, and letting every Joe wander in and grab the BB
taps.

There's a happy medium, and letting people borrow the trackpump and
showing them how to use it is the start to a happy relationship. BB
taps come later.

M "once or twice bitten, and a bit shy" H


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mfhor