[AT] OT Bicycle mechanics.

[charlie hill]

Wow,  He must have been the last of the trade in the US.  I suspect you 
could find a pretty good bicycle mechanic in Cuba, Viet Nam or China.  Now 
days you can buy a pretty decent 10 or 12 speed bicycle for about $90 at 
Wal-Mart or Target or an old style single speed cruiser type for about $60. 
It's kinda hard to hire someone to work on one when you can replace it for 
that kind of money.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Myers" <walking_tractor at yahoo.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2006 9:25 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] OT Bicycle mechanics.


> Charlie,
> We had one in Kalamazoo until about 15 years ago (he
> met an umtimely demise).  The man was somewhere
> between old and ancient and did nothing but bicycles.
> Everybody went to him unless they had the latest,
> greatest, hybred racer.  He had literally everthing,
> somewhere in the mess <g>.  Kept my kids bikes running
> due to him.
>
> Dave Myers
> Paw Paw, Michigan
>
> --- charlie hill <chill8 at cox.net> wrote:
>
>> My last post on the Yanmar thread got me to
>> thinking.   How many folks on
>> the list remember mechanics shop that worked on
>> bicycles?
>> Yeah I know they have modern bike shops now but I'm
>> talking about a guy that
>> had a little garage and all he did was repair
>> bicycles and maybe an
>> occasional washing machine or something.
>>
>
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