What do you look for in a bike mechanic?
Bicycle mechanic - what do you look for?
My priorities
1. Doesn't create new problems
2. Doesn't make problem worse
3. Fixes problem
4. Welcomes my business
5. Speed
6. fair price
7. Explains basically what he did
8. Explains in detail what he did
9. Teaches me how to do it myself
10. Teaches me how to avoid problem happening again
11. Convenient working hours
12. specialist in repair/maintenance, not sales
13. doesn't multitask, repairing three bikes at a time, ordering stock, serving retail customers - concentrates on my bike repair. How can he determine price of task if it takes him three times normal duration due to multi-tasking. Maybe mechanics calculate on a per task basis?
Just met with a guesthouse operator in Melaka. He explained many techniques to combat bedbug problem. He said that fumigators *don't want* to eradicate the problem because that would put them out of business. Parallels here? Or am I a cynic?