Home Biz: Bicycle Repair
In many parts of the country, this business tends to be seasonal, but you can find ways around that.
Rent a storage unit and offer to store people’s bicycles over the winter after you do a tune-up and any needed repairs on them.
If you want to cater to the Lance Armstrong wannabes, you can have business all year round. These road race riders are training through snow, sleet and dark of night.
Some of them work on their own bicycles, but many of them don’t, so you can get their business all year.
And if you keep Saturday shop hours, you can be sure you will have a group of enthusiasts coming by to talk all things cycling.
Photo by mmagallan.
Jaclyn on June 3rd, 2009 3:42 pm
That just goes to show the type of dedication that some of them have when they are willing to train through snow, rain and more! The point about having saturday hour’s is a great idea, many people don’t have time to get to the shop during the week before they close, and lots of people wish that places had saturday hour’s of operation.
RedHotFranchises on June 3rd, 2009 5:58 pm
This would be a good Business to start, i agree about having saturday and sunday hours as thats when most of the people are out and about off their homes.
For those that are interested in starting their own Bicycle Repair business sheldonbrown.com is one of the most exhaustive resources for bicycle repair especially for older style bicycles. Two books useful books are:Zinn & The Art Of Road, Bike Maintenance by Lenn Zinn
and Bicycling Magazine’s Complete Guide to Bicycle Maintenance and Repair by Jim Langley
Both of these are pretty in depth on pretty much everything you could possibly need for maintenance on your own bike
Dane Carlson on June 4th, 2009 5:44 pm
Thanks RedHotFranchise guy! Good suggestions.
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