Bicycle Mechanic Employment

Bicycle Mechanic Employment has a great future ahead. The silent electric bicycle revolution has begun and this will create jobs in the bicycle industry for specialized bicycle mechanics.

Bicycles will always remain popular for recreation and transportation and this will ensure that you are needed in the future to work for bicycle shops or bicycle departments of large stores.

Requirements

You enjoy practical-hands-on problems and handling materials like wood, tools and monitoring equipment. You prefer a job that does not involve a lot of paperwork.

Must be able to analyze what repairs, replacements or adjustments of parts are needed and estimates the time frame of his service and the cost of the spare parts he may need. This is necessary to tell the customer how much he approximately will have to pay after the repairs are done.

He should have a sound knowledge of bicycle parts as he has to order any parts that are not stocked in the store.

provides basic maintenance such as lubricating and adjusting chains.

He needs good communication skills to be able to handle difficult customers and complaints.

needs good mechanical skills and must be able to use special tools like air hoses, racks and electronic monitoring equipment

Often on-the-job training is provided if not then find a manufacturer that offers free repair courses for employees of stores that carry their products or find other courses that teach bicycle repairs.

To get into it you might even start to work part time at a bicycle store until you become more efficient. This will give you the time needed to do a course and you can apply the knowledge what you have learned in the course in your part-time job. You might start as a bike assembler at your local bike shop.

If you are reliable you might become a sales representative for a manufacturer or work your way up to a department or store manager.