Originally Posted by
megarot
So this is for you guys (or gals if there's any out there) who work professionally as a bike mechanic. Do you ever get any requests from people trying to learn about their bike to have you show them how to do their own work?
For instance I would love to learn more about working on my own bike - which i'm not afraid to get my hands dirty and I know the basic basics but I wanna know how to fix some of the other bigger issues that have came up but kinda feel like I need an extra bit of assistance (wheel truing for example).
Would that just be a source of irritation or would you be willing to help out if someone made the request?
If you're trying to get us to show you how to do a repair because you don't want to pay for it, i'd tell you to **** off. Seriously. But if you are geuinely interested in doing repairs, I have no problems with showing you perhaps off work hours at a community shop how to do xyz.