Complete practical guide
The bicycle repair book that opens with thirty-five minutes of good work beside a brake that was about to fail
37 chapters and 68 printable worksheets on mobile and workshop bicycle servicing - why the customer's complaint points away from what is dangerous, why the inspection must never be optional, and why the same work can pay nineteen dollars an hour or thirty-seven.
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What this guide is
The booking said 'gears skipping, especially in the middle.' Bex arrived at eleven on a Tuesday, worked on the driveway, and found exactly what the booking described - old rear cable, tired housing, indexing drifted far enough that the chain was hunting under load. New inner cable, new housing, chain cleaned and lubricated, indexing set up properly rather than approximately, checked in both directions and under load. Thirty-five minutes. Good work, genuinely. The customer rode it up the road and came back grinning. Eleven days later they came down the hill towards the station, pulled the front brake, and it did almost nothing. They were not badly hurt. The shop that recovered the bicycle rang to say the front pads had worn through to the metal backing plates and had been scoring the rim - not getting low, worn through, visible from a metre away without tools in about three seconds. Here is the part Bex has never quite got over. For thirty-five minutes that Tuesday, Bex had been standing beside that bicycle. Bex had spun that front wheel. Bex had been at eye level with that calliper while sorting out the cable run at the front of the frame, and had looked directly at it and not looked at it at all, because it was not what the job was. The job was the gears. The customer had said gears. Bex had done gears, and had done them well. The customer had not mentioned the brake because the customer did not know. There was nothing for them to know - a brake pad goes from adequate to gone across hundreds of stops, each imperceptibly worse than the last, and the human hand compensates without ever reporting that it is compensating. That is what a customer is, and it is why this book exists.
What you get out of it
Specifics, not promises.
- The four mechanical reasons the dangerous faults are silent - and why the complaint points away from them
- The six-stage inspection order, and why it never changes
- The five-minute pass that resolves most bicycles entirely
- The fifteen-second check on a child's bicycle that has no adult equivalent
- Why an inconclusive check is not a pass, and the concrete test for when the job must move
- The monthly audit that looks for blank fields rather than for problems
- Why the same work can pay nineteen dollars an hour or thirty-seven
- The eleven seconds at handover that fix the whole economics
- The metric where zero is a warning, and what February does to it
- 148 AI prompts - and the one category of question you must never ask an AI system in this trade
Ideal for
People starting a bicycle repair side hustle mobile or from a home workshop; existing mechanics who have never charged for the inspection and cannot explain where their hours go; anybody who has fixed exactly what was asked for and never looked at the rest of the machine; and anybody whose diary is full and whose earnings per hour are half what they believe.
- Anyone starting a bicycle repair side hustle, mobile or from a home workshop.
- Anybody already doing it who has never charged for the inspection, has never counted the driving, or has fixed exactly what was asked for and never looked at the rest of the machine.
What's inside
Format
- Digital download, delivered instantly after payment
- Formatted for letter paper — read on screen or print it
- Yours permanently, re-downloadable from your library any time
- Licensed for use in your own business
By the end you can
A reader finishes with care-custody-and-control cover, cover for their own work, and the electric bicycle position all confirmed in writing before a single customer bicycle is touched; two practice bicycles, one of them stripped completely; a six-stage inspection card used on paper on every machine whatever was booked; a twelve-field work order whose reported and found columns never merge; an authorised limit agreed in six seconds at intake with a safety carve-out sitting outside it; a test ride protocol including the front-brake-alone stop from real speed and a post-ride fastener recheck; a working-hour cost built from realistic billable hours rather than available ones; a minimum call-out that reflects their actual geography; a found-and-not-fixed register that is simultaneously their protection and their forward order book; a monthly audit that looks for blank fields rather than for problems; scheduled services booked eleven seconds at a time that convert a scattered customer base into a dense one; and a twelve-month review with a genuine stop condition.
A complete working system for mobile and workshop bicycle servicing and repair - built on four rules covering the safety inspection that runs on every bicycle regardless of the booking, the structural fact that the faults a customer can report are almost never the faults that will injure them, the test ride that is the only verification step in the job, and the travel arithmetic that determines whether the business pays at all - with earnings per working hour as the central figure and two operational numbers, one of which treats a zero count as a warning.
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