Remembering the week a local race team brought in 12 bikes for a full pre-season tune

It was about eight years ago, before a lot of shops got into the team service game. They rolled in on a Monday with a dozen carbon road bikes, all needing cables, housing, bar tape, and a full check. We had three of us in the shop and we just went heads down for four days straight. The best part was the quiet focus, just the sound of cable cutters and degreaser, and seeing a whole fleet lined up perfect by Friday. It felt like real craft work, not just fixing flats. Does anyone else miss those big, focused jobs that just filled the shop for a week?

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cameronwood2mo ago

Totally get that feeling. It's like the world gets quiet and you just get into a rhythm. You don't see that kind of deep focus much anymore, everyone's pulled in ten directions at once.

davis.iris2mo ago

What was the hardest part of keeping that rhythm for four days?

leep891mo ago

Four days of that kind of focus sounds like a nightmare to me. Your brain needs to shift gears every few hours or you just start making stupid mistakes. I'd be so bored by day two I'd probably start messing up on purpose just to break the monotony. People act like being locked in for days is some kind of superpower but really it's just asking for burnout and sloppy work. The whole "getting into a rhythm" thing sounds nice until you realize you've been staring at the same wall for 72 hours straight.