• jaybone@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Holy shit. In an 8 hour day that’s like 20 bikes an hour. So that’s a bike every three minutes. How is that even possible?

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      6 months ago

      Lol I wish it was just an 8 hour day.

      More like 12-14 hours, and with the experience I had I was able to build most in about 6-7 minutes.

      There’s downsides to speed building like that, because whoever has to inspect it when it gets sold has to spend a lot longer fixing minor problems.

      If I were building at my own store, each bike took about 20 minutes because I made sure everything was as close to “ready to ride” as possible.

      Nowadays I bulk build for many companies. They don’t give a shit about quality but I spent years making sure my bikes were perfect, so I still like to make them good to ride out the door.

      my quickest bike was one particularly well put together model. 3 minutes per bike and it was good enough that I’d ride one without tools to the nearest store a few miles away.