professional bike mechanic
- Thread starter paddypete
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This is a very well known equation. Some people might say that anyone who doesn't at least recognise it must struggle to count beyond their fingers and toes.
Everyone one has different interests and abilities.
P.S. When I was 10, I might have poked fun at the slow kid in class who couldn't spell choked.
ayceejay
Guru
- Location
- Rural Quebec
I think paddy might be on to something, other than proving a stereotype that is.
Imagine you are a rider in the TdF and somewhere half way down a col you crash and bend a wheel, you take out your cell phone and call Planet X to send a replacement and camp out at the side of the road waiting. At first you think you are out of the race but the girl on the Planet X phone says they will send your wheel out with the batch of yellow jerseys, you ask if they can deliver your wheel first and when it comes you race the UPS truck down the road passing riders who went with Wiggle instead and win.
Imagine you are a rider in the TdF and somewhere half way down a col you crash and bend a wheel, you take out your cell phone and call Planet X to send a replacement and camp out at the side of the road waiting. At first you think you are out of the race but the girl on the Planet X phone says they will send your wheel out with the batch of yellow jerseys, you ask if they can deliver your wheel first and when it comes you race the UPS truck down the road passing riders who went with Wiggle instead and win.
roadrash
cycle chatterer
- Location
- sitting on the edge of wigan pier
sidevalve
Über Member
Just a point - many years ago when I were a lad [and dinosaurs roamed the earth] we had bicycle shops. Not as fancy as the shops of today but still shops where you could take your bike to be fixed. For this you had to pay - therefore the shopman was .... a professional bicycle mechanic. I seem to remember the Wright brothers owned a bicycle shop so they must have been professional bicycle mechanics too. Not much changes.
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paddypete
Guest
- Location
- cumbernauld
you still would
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paddypete
Guest
- Location
- cumbernauld
im sorry that theres a very small amount of members who disagree with this post,but the good feedback has been fantastic,cheers
Seeing the EFE makes me tensor.
vickster
Squire
I think ''member' is the more appropriate part of the name here
If you can find a professional shift-key refurbisher, I'd give them a call.
vickster
Squire
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paddypete
Guest
- Location
- cumbernauld
yes i agree,thay are acting like membersI think ''member' is the more appropriate part of the name here
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
There are plenty of folk riding round on £xxxx's of bikes that can't change a puncture, nor even get it up a hill. Yet we all moan about the cost of a bike service - erm, time, wages, overheads, tools, consumables.
marzjennings
Legendary Member
- Location
- Houston, Texas, USA
So you've never paid someone to make you coffee, pull you a pint or carry a plate from a kitchen to a table. There are plenty of jobs we could do for ourselves, but I'm all for someone trying to make a career out of it.
vickster
Squire
There's only one of those...look closer to home
