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Careers in motorycles
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03-01-2012 12:51am#1
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turbodiesel wrote: »Interceptor wrote: »Because he won't be in it for the money. Very few bike mechanics, bike builders or bike shop owners are getting rich at the moment so unless it feeds your soul it sure as hell won't feed your family.
Yeah, very few large dealerships and mostly small, back street garages to work in. Most bikers fix their own bikes.....
I left school in 1986 and did it cptr...... Don't regret the apprenticeship, but do regret not trying harder and staying on at school. You're labelled/pidgeon holed when you're an early school leaver as not being bright in a lot of peoples minds......
Mind you, I've very rarely been without work, but rarely have i worked less than 50 hours a week.
Wow - have you been spying on me, or reading my secret diary or what ?
...long story short: did the LC, and got started doing cars....more out of necessity than anything else, and then got a good tech job in a multinational. That was great, and a fantastic grounding. But, after 5 years, got itchy feet, had started biking in the interim, and then started thinking about combining the two things.......and, instead of taking the money I'd saved up for a brand new RG500 (yes, really.......)......I started looking fir a career in bike's, and that meant going to the UK.
But, I didn't do the apprentice thing. No, instead I went to full time college in Motorcycle Eng, in Bristol. 2 years full time,with placement as part of it. Best thing I ever did.
Gave it up years later, as posters are saying, long hours, mediocre pay, and came home, and went st something else. My logic was that working on them all day, the last thing I wanted to do in my off hours was......to do more of the same. So I decided to keep biking separate and enjoyable. Has worked well for me.
So, putting my 2012 older, wiser hat on it, I'd say this: by all means pursue it, even if you ultimately end up doing something else, it will be time well spent.
I would suggest a more modern non-apprentice route would be better. More focussed, more advanced, better recognised. Might even be a shorter route as well. Can be used as a door opener to non-mechanic-ing, and even non-biking jobs too.
Is there any prospect of such study in NZ or OZ ? That would be icing on top imho....
In the UK, loads of choices of college: Merton, Taunton, Bristol etc etc.....look up MCN for others too.
Moral of the story for me? Great move. Mind you, I should still have bought the RG500.....can you imagine what it'd be worth today ?!Ode To The Motorist
“And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, generates funds to the exchequer. You don't want to acknowledge that as truth because, deep down in places you don't talk about at the Green Party, you want me on that road, you need me on that road. We use words like freedom, enjoyment, sport and community. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent instilling those values in our families and loved ones. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the tax revenue and the very freedom to spend it that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise I suggest you pick up a bus pass and get the ********* ********* off the road”
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As galwaytt has said it will not be a waste of time no matter what, i wish i had followed my heart when i had the chance, i really dislike what i am doing now.
Oh and there is no way that new RG500 would have survived Galway, you would have been through several hedges on that animal of a bike by now
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slavetothegrind wrote: »As galwaytt has said it will not be a waste of time no matter what, i wish i had followed my heart when i had the chance, i really dislike what i am doing now.
Oh and there is no way that new RG500 would have survived Galway, you would have been through several hedges on that animal of a bike by now
Tut, tut - oh ye of little faith......Seeing as I have my RGV250K for......21 years now, I beg to differ !Ode To The Motorist
“And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, generates funds to the exchequer. You don't want to acknowledge that as truth because, deep down in places you don't talk about at the Green Party, you want me on that road, you need me on that road. We use words like freedom, enjoyment, sport and community. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent instilling those values in our families and loved ones. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the tax revenue and the very freedom to spend it that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise I suggest you pick up a bus pass and get the ********* ********* off the road”
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