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Take care of yourself mate. Only got one body. Last Friday I was in auto zombie mode without realising it was Friday. I went in the next day and opened up. Realised an hour later it was Saturday.
Don’t burn yourself out. It’s a paradoxically good time for bikes, but they’re fucking bikes, not life or death work.
Chak-
Taken me 6 weeks to realise this. The wave of work is going ti stretch for a while yet, waiting for evans/halfords to open up a bit more and take some of the crap job slack.
Our shop is positioned in a very residential area, so we have the luxury of not having to (usually) deal with walk in shit bikes and endless punctures. But since lockdown we've often been the only shop open/answering the phone to our demise.
Spending more time looking after repeat customers and locals, those that rock up in a brand new leased white audi/merc/bmw and then projectile vomit a collection of mangled parts from an Internet bike/halfords bike are getting less time spent on them as will likely never see again. Not a way I like to be, but can't fix everything all the time constantly.
BrickMan
So much this. Sold several sets of cranks every day for a month now, Madison etc are gonna think I'm selling them on ebay.
We've come back into a quiet week which is deliberate, turned off all adverts, reduced website visibility, not answering the phone or emails much, need a break, utterly wrecked*
*he says still at work at 9.30pm, haven't left the building since 9am, and this is standard every day.
Got to get it while there is work out there but at same time health is suffering and getting to the point that would like to see some sunshine!