Originally Posted by ken cummings
One shop tested future wrenches by having them strip down a bike to component parts then reassemble it. If you got it done in a good time and it was rideable you could be hired. Are you ready to do that? Merde.
Road or mountain, and if mountain, am I required to disassemble suspension parts, or just remove them? Otherwise, I see no problem. I've stripped (down to the frame) and rebuilt a bike probably once a week since January.
I think I could do this job, but I expect there are tricks I'll learn, and certainly there's going to be something that a customer brings in that I've never even thought about, and I'll have to learn how to fix it, but I think that's true of starting any job.