i admit to being guilty here but not in the way sighted in the article
my offence is in telling customers that if they walk away from their bicycle dressed like they will be risking arrest   
yes these are fully kitted  roadies who are used to being fawned over.  but it still is not the type of thing that we need to be doing.
The Bicycle Kitchen was founded in part  as a direct response to the types of attitudes sighted in the article
and not the shop of  my admission.  


From: director <director@communitycycles.org>
To: The Think Tank <thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2013 9:10 PM
Subject: Re: [TheThinkTank] Vancouver bike mechanics try to change industry bad attitudes

Sounds good!


On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Dax Burgos <draxula@gmail.com> wrote:
do you mind if i post this in the shop?
D


On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 7:31 AM, director <director@communitycycles.org> wrote:
Interesting article about customer service in bike shops.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2013/08/08/bc-bike-mechanics-bad-attitudes.html

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