mzeffex 

Theres where the cracks are, you can't see them (what looks like the line is red dashes i made to show where it is)

Wordbiker

Looks like a warranty issue.

mzeffex 

Warranty ended in 07, though it was unused. there lies the problem/

Kevrob

Read the Yehuda Moon archive!

https://www.yehudamoon.com/index.php?date=2009-05-04

I don't think you are dissing your new job as "just to get through school," and you are right not to. I took a job to earn some dough one summer after I had to leave college, as my funds had run out. I wound up employed in that industry for over 20 years. After working full-time for a while, I went back to school part-time, then switched to full-time school/part-time job, then got a job in that field after graduating. So, keep your eyes and ears open.

Maybe you won't be a bike shop clerk or wrench all your life, but you might decide to put your experience to use as an engineeer, an entrepreneur, or manager.

There are plenty of out-of-work folks with long careers in lots of fields who would love to be able to fall back on a skill like repairing bikes, nowadays. I regret not doing something like you are up to when I was your age.

trekkie820

This made me laugh. I am sooo sick of polishing the Huffy turds that come into the shop I work at.

mzeffex 

Hehe. Hey trekkie820, since you apparently work at a bike shop, what do you guys charge to install a new fork crown?

noglider 

Congratulations.

I recently visited a bike shop on the west side in New York that has a very good reputation. I told an employee that I was the head mechanic there way back in 1982. He said that their shop on the east side is hiring. I chuckled, because I haven't been in the biz since 1984 and I'm sure they can't afford me any more. But it was nice.

Apparently the industry is doing quite well this year. It's nice to hear about some successful businesses and industries. I guess if I lose my job -- a fear that a great many people have nowadays -- I can at least get a job spinning a spoke wrench.

I loved working as a mechanic. I also worked in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1980 and 1981. I built the shop's reputation up single-handedly. It became known as the place to bring your bike in for repair. I used to ride down the streets and identify the bikes locked to parking meters that I had fixed. It was satisfying.

Panthers007

I was in Cambridge, MA from 1960 to 1993 - which shop? The Bi-Ex? I was a Laughing Alley man myself.

trekkie820

The crown itself doesn't come off, but to put a the race on we would charge $20-30 depending on the difficulty level of removing the fork.

noglider 

Panthers007, I was at the Bicycle Workshop, surrounded by the MIT campus. Interesting customers!

mzeffex 

Are you sure the crown doesnt come off? because you can buy a replacement one >_>

Wordbiker

The replacement crown will have the stanchions and steerer tube cryo-pressed into place. Replaceable crowns are a thing of the past...and probably for good reason.

mzeffex 

Oh, wonderful. That's gonna be expensive then.

tanguy frame

Panthers007 - I was a Laughing Alley mechanic!
I bought my Tanguy there.
I think I was there is 1976 or 1977, but I forget. Jim DaSilva was the owner back then.
Where are you now?

tanguy frame

Hey Nogloder - was Bike Workshop across the street from the NECCO candy company? I worked there one summer too. (I think).

noglider 

Yes, that's the one. The streets often smelled like candy. There was also a small nuclear reactor in view. When did you work there?

Panthers007

And the Kresge Auditorium, too. Under the ominous outline of MIT's research nuclear-reactor. If it ever went critical - half the workers in the Necco candy factory would be toast. And all the patrons of the Paradise - the local gay-bar.

I'm an MIT Affiliate. Card-carrying. LOL.

mzeffex 

This thread has gotten interesting..