I have a new employee in the garage bike shop!
09-29-10, 12:08 PM
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I have a new employee in the garage bike shop!
My new employee. He is a little young and can't work a full 8 hours without a nap, but I think I'll keep him around.
Helping Daddy
His job is working on the pedals.
Mutt and Mutt jr
Helping Daddy
His job is working on the pedals.
Mutt and Mutt jr
09-29-10, 12:12 PM
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Hah! That's awesome. Put some wheels on that bouncy chair, and he'll be cruising around the shop in no time.
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09-29-10, 12:13 PM
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09-29-10, 12:22 PM
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Yeah it has wheels and he scoots all around the garage but always comes back to the bike. He loves spinning the pedals. I'm trying to ween him off the 4 wheels and on to 2 wheels, lol.
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09-29-10, 12:34 PM
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That's awesome. My son (youngest) is now six and a total bike nut. I'm betting yours will be too. 
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Ah, yes.
Reminds me of the first time I let my son 'help out' in the bike shop, when he was about two, and had just started talking. I was doing something, ignoring him, figuring what could possibly go wrong. Yes, I'm a very attentive father (and he's survived to be a teenager now).
Anyway, after a while he came up to me and explained, very seriously, "I put that squishy thing in there," pointing at a cardboard box that was completely sealed with packing tape. I was totally nonplussed.
It eventually turned out the "squishy thing" was a styrofoam packing peanut, and had managed to stuff it through a seam.
Reminds me of the first time I let my son 'help out' in the bike shop, when he was about two, and had just started talking. I was doing something, ignoring him, figuring what could possibly go wrong. Yes, I'm a very attentive father (and he's survived to be a teenager now).
Anyway, after a while he came up to me and explained, very seriously, "I put that squishy thing in there," pointing at a cardboard box that was completely sealed with packing tape. I was totally nonplussed.
It eventually turned out the "squishy thing" was a styrofoam packing peanut, and had managed to stuff it through a seam.
09-29-10, 12:38 PM
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Hey Mutt, is that your first? If so you have NO idea how your life is going to change once he's out of that chair and self-propelled. Looks like he's close to walking if he hasn't already taken a few. Once they're mobile, oh boy, everything changes 
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The two Mutts will make an awesome team. Look forward to future success stories of C&V collaboration
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09-29-10, 12:44 PM
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That thing he's in looks like it has aluminum tubes, which waddle around much stiffer than the older nice lugged steel tubed ones!
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Anyway, after a while he came up to me and explained, very seriously, "I put that squishy thing in there," pointing at a cardboard box that was completely sealed with packing tape. I was totally nonplussed.
It eventually turned out the "squishy thing" was a styrofoam packing peanut, and had managed to stuff it through a seam.
It eventually turned out the "squishy thing" was a styrofoam packing peanut, and had managed to stuff it through a seam.
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09-29-10, 02:12 PM
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Nice idea to hire a pedal specialist who appears to be a master of his craft... I managed to find a wheel building assistant and she is also very good at finding small things I have dropped on the floor and the maker of tea.
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Congratulations! I bet he's an awesome pedal mechanic.
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09-29-10, 02:28 PM
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Sixty Fiver, I remember you posting that picture before. I love it so much. I take it she can lace an entire wheel now? How old is she now?
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09-29-10, 02:38 PM
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She likes doing most of the mechanical work on her bike and did a lot to build up a new bike for her best friend with not too much help from dad... she is like a little sponge and seems to have the ability to pick stuff up just by watching dad work.
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I learned to build wheels by watching my grandfather. (ok, so that stretches the truth a bit)
well - I learned that it's not a big deal to build wheels by watching him. I wish I'd gotten my son hooked on bikes before he caught the car bug (at age 3).
well - I learned that it's not a big deal to build wheels by watching him. I wish I'd gotten my son hooked on bikes before he caught the car bug (at age 3).
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So who's the root beer and cheetos fan? Something tells me there would be a conflict if I spent much time in your shop.
Muttleyone - be careful which way you position bikes in your shop. Chains, chainrings and small hands are not a safe combination.
Muttleyone - be careful which way you position bikes in your shop. Chains, chainrings and small hands are not a safe combination.
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Sigh. My older daughter never wanted to work on bikes. My younger daughter did a bit but didn't have much attention span for it. We had a few good times, but I could count them on my fingers. And now she's left for college, and I find myself singing Danny Boy for some morose reason. Sigh.
Your daughter warms my heart.
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09-29-10, 04:40 PM
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This thread reminds me of when my oldest son was about 18months old.
I used to keep my bike in the apartment (no garage) and there was usually tools near it.
One day, I came home from work one day to a very mad wife. She told me that "MY" son was pretending to work on my bike with the tools nearby, and as he was "working", he was saying "dammit", and "*****".
I still laugh at this story, even though it happened 22 years ago!
I used to keep my bike in the apartment (no garage) and there was usually tools near it.
One day, I came home from work one day to a very mad wife. She told me that "MY" son was pretending to work on my bike with the tools nearby, and as he was "working", he was saying "dammit", and "*****".
I still laugh at this story, even though it happened 22 years ago!
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This thread reminds me of when my oldest son was about 18months old.
I used to keep my bike in the apartment (no garage) and there was usually tools near it.
One day, I came home from work one day to a very mad wife. She told me that "MY" son was pretending to work on my bike with the tools nearby, and as he was "working", he was saying "dammit", and "*****".
I still laugh at this story, even though it happened 22 years ago!
I used to keep my bike in the apartment (no garage) and there was usually tools near it.
One day, I came home from work one day to a very mad wife. She told me that "MY" son was pretending to work on my bike with the tools nearby, and as he was "working", he was saying "dammit", and "*****".
I still laugh at this story, even though it happened 22 years ago!
