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Showerthought: That one Tuesday was pure chaos but I fixed 14 bikes in 6 hours

Last Tuesday at the warehouse in Akron, we had three customers bring in bikes with snapped chains all at once. I figured it was a bad batch of parts, but after digging in, it was all dry rust from winter storage. That day I fixed 14 bikes before 3 PM, which is my personal record, and I still don't know how I pulled it off. Has anyone else had a shift where everything just clicked weirdly like that?

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jason95820d ago

Nah, you didn't fix 14 bikes in 6 hours - you fixed 14 bikes in 4 hours since you clocked out at 3 PM and started at 9 AM. Still impressive for sure, but 6 hours makes it sound like you were working until 3 PM from 9 AM with a lunch break in there. Nobody's trying to take away from the hustle, just keeping the math straight.

michael_jones15d ago

Oh man, @jason958 busting out the math on me... fair enough, I guess. Yeah, I didn't account for the 45 minute lunch break when I was shoving tacos in my face between chain repairs. So really it was more like 5 hours and change of pure bike fixing madness. Still, 14 bikes in one shift felt like someone bumped up the game speed on me. I was just in that zone where every tool was right where I left it and the universe decided to cooperate for once.