I was looking at new jobs and looking at bike companies and then I realized the industry experience I have was basically just fixing flats and changing cables on shit box shit bikes at my buddy’s shop but my expertise came from logging in here
This is me. Other than dyno stuff, my bikes don’t have anything newer than 1980’s bike technology on them. I’m too lazy to learn new things unless I need to.
I took apart my rockshox mtb fork to service it and I think I got the wrong year manual and was also missing a tool or two, when I put it back together it wouldn’t compress at all, so I left it outside in a box along with the frame and forgot about it for a few months so now it’s probably more fucked than it started
I think cleaning a chain more than running it through rag while backpedaling is a scam.
If I have not paid for a fit on a bike I am cursed to forever fiddle with saddle angle and setback.
I keep a color coded spreadsheet of all the bike parts in my parts bins + clothing in my closet. My bike specific clothing is nearly double my normie clothing.
I have been ignoring the degrading shifting on my coffee grinder for about a year and just replacing wear parts rather than bothering to retape the bars and replace the cables and housing.
I do have daily access to an ultrasonic so my chains are always clean and properly lubed at least.
And is it worth having an ultrasonic cleaner that fits anything bigger than a chain (and maybe cassette?)? I’ve been puzzling over whether to get a little jewelry one or scientific surplus sonicator.