B.C. Bike Shop Looking For Experienced Mechanic and Sales People!
Live and work in Canada's cycling mecca! Situated in Chilliwack BC, home to Vedder Mountain and close to Sumas Mountain, as well as spitting distance to the infamous North Shore, we have some of the country's best mountain and road biking all around us. Whistler, Sun Peaks and Silver Star are all within a three to four hour drive. Mount Baker Washington is close by. Hiking, snowshoeing and skiing areas are all nearby. Several lakes and the coast are within an hour's drive.
We are looking for cycling-enthused, personable candidates who are eager to learn. Experience in bike repair and assembly is required. Communication skills and personal presentation are very important.
The positions allow some flexibility in hours to permit riding on our amazing trails and road ways. Enjoy the benefits of working in an area with incredible recreational attractions. Full and part time positions available in January. Non Canadian citizens require work visa's.
Email [email protected] or call (604) 795-2453 for more information.
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They're not my favorites, but you may consider looking into a training program like UBI or Barnett's. Many shops will offer training and info sessions (i.e. Park Tool School) or will allow you to volunteer some time there as training as well. It is hard to turn down free labor.
1. Volunteer at the shop.
2. If you have mechanic skills, ask to come in and build or repair a few bikes as an interview process.
3. Get a job at the local grocery store or wherever - it demonstrates a good track record of being able to show up for work on time, etc. Sometimes mechanics have to do a bit of sales, and sometimes sales guys have to do a bit of fixing - this also demonstrates flexibility.
4. Prepare a resume, and actually put some effort into looking presentable as well as the rest of the resume dropoff process.
5. Don't come into a bike shop looking for a job in December. Come in a couple of months before the busy season.
Take that for what it's worth.
1. I've never even considered this. I'll look into. How about do you go volunteering at a shop?
2. I have no clue how I'd about this either.
3. I've had previous jobs, and get where you're coming from with this one, but just wondering, from an actual manager's viewpoint, are there any jobs OTHER THAN actually working in a bikeshop that stand out? Or are you looking purely for the fact that we can hold a job, be it anywhere?
4. Done. Asked to speak to the hiring manager, sat down and talked with a few of them, if they were at the shop one of the few times I'd go back. Most of them came down to "Experience", and I never had the balls to say what I did up there (I'll never get experience until I have experience), I could only counter with a very flexible schedule in and out of the school year, the promise I'd hold the job for a while and the willingness to learn. This wasn't enough.
5. Obviously not, ya big goof. I'm talking in past tense, I applied at my local bike shops last spring, and followed up a few times until summer actually started, and I had to give up and just get a regular job.
Once again, I'm not trying to sound cocky or arrogant, I just want your response. Thanks.
But most of us young guys just want a good job, hopefully get discounts on bike parts and learn more about bikes. Thats my main reason for wanting to work at a bike shop.
I doubt i would love fixing old and crappy bikes every day. + the odd high end bikes.
Its very rare that a bike Mechanic that doesn't live near one of the biking meccas of the world gets to work on high dollar bikes. Most of the people that own them have come up through the ranks of lower end bikes and have learned how to fix them themselfs.
1. Get a job at burger stop - you will only work a bit since you are in high school
2. take a few of the afternoons/weekends you don't work each week and drop by the bike depot and start to volunteer an hour here maybe an entire afternoon there.
3. every bit counts, record your hours so you can go back to defend how much time you have spent wrenching on bikes
4. after a few months of drop a resume by a shop
5. try and volunteer at the shop instead of the depot at this point maybe or split your time.
6. Patients is key, the waiting game sucks but when the opening happens ditch the burger job and grab a wrench!
It wont be easy to get a mechanic job in bellingham, dedication is going to be your only way. Ride, sleep, work, skool, volunteer, rinse and repeat.
PLEASE DON'T LET THE EXPERIENCED MECH ONLY NEED APPLY STOP YOU. They do that that so random IDIOTS don't show up expecting a job. If they said bike mech's apply, you will get goofs so are like, i put air in my tire today, hire me.
fixing a bike isn't brain surgery, its simple. Running a well oiled shop is harder then repairing a bike.
It does take a bit of luck and persistence to break into this industry but if you love bikes and can accept that you will never be wealthy its a great career. As lots have mentioned its mostly working on crap bikes bikes, especially when you are just the shop kid, but in the end does it really matter? Its still getting paid to play with bikes.
People are saying to you get real jobs first and that's what you should do. Building up a foundation of work experience will help you cope with multiple situations and react appropriately, say, when an actual big goof comes in with his bike, you could muster up a bit of tact.
just remember, 16 year olds can't always help the fact they haven't got tons of life experience. The trick is to go out and get it.
good luck
There was old Polish company producing them 20 years ago ( my first bmx had ones ). I've never thought I'm gonna see these tyres back again, but now it is in Canada ! Btw - Minions can go and hide with shame comparing the grip of these rubbers :-)