Originally Posted by smurfy

I worked part-time as a bike shop mech from '96 to '99.

Funny story: sometime eight years ago I was laid off from my full-time job and got the idea of working in a bike shop again. In an interview I had with a chain shop they asks me about the latest trends in cycling seeing how much you are "with it". I think I was trying to show how much I knew about bikes saying something like the Trek 5000 series (one-piece carbon fiber frame) was somehow the "latest technology" which actually has been around for quite some time. Oops. While I totally flubbed up that interview I suspect they just want the young "cool kids" working at their shops, not old codgers like me. And, of course, they don't have to pay them much, either.