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Bike Trade Jobs / Bike Mechanic – Butternut Bike...
Last post by siwatts - July 08, 2025, 10:57:59 AMFull-time or part-time | Flexible hours | London Living Wage+ (up to £40k for the right person)
We're Butternut Bikes – a proper independent bike shop in the heart of Crouch End founded five years ago. We've built a strong reputation for honest advice, quality service, and looking after the sort of bikes people actually ride every day, as well as selling family cargo bikes (Such as Tern, Estarli, Muli, Veloe...). Whether it's a well-used commuter, a carefully chosen cargo bike, or a fast road machine, we treat them all with the same care.
We're a busy, friendly team with lovely customers and high standards – and we're looking for another mechanic to join us.
The role:
This is a workshop role with variety. You'll be servicing and repairing a steady stream of practical bikes – mostly commuters and family setups – with the occasional high-end or vintage oddity thrown in. You'll also be helping customers with repairs, giving advice, ordering stock, and keeping the workshop running smoothly.
Hours are flexible – ideally Tuesday to Friday, with some Saturdays (regular or occasional, up to you). It's a permanent role, but we're open to short-term help if that's more your thing. We are also very much open to someone who has been out of the trade for a while, and fancies dipping their toe back in the water, even if it's for a few months to help us out as a bit of a project.
You might be the right fit if you:
* Have worked in a bike shop before (as a mechanic or in a dual role)
* Or you've got practical experience from another trade and a real interest in bikes
* Can work independently and take pride in doing things properly
* Enjoy talking to customers and being part of a team
* Don't mind the odd mad repair job or niche setup
* Don't necessarily have Cytech – we're more interested in your skills than your certificates
What we offer:
* A proper wage – starting at the London Living Wage and going up to £40k depending on experience
* Free lunch (!), staff discounts, and good Yorkshire Tea
* A nice backyard to hang out in
* A cheerful, collaborative workshop with a genuinely decent atmosphere
* A dog called Sprocket, who takes her role as Barketing Manager fairly seriously
* A chance to work somewhere that's proud of the service we offer – and the community we're part of
We're proud that our customers are a real mix – families, commuters, weekend riders, bike nerds and people who just want to get from A to B. At least half our customers are women, and we'd love our team to reflect that better. We're actively looking to improve the diversity of the cycling industry, and we welcome applicants from backgrounds underrepresented in this space.
To apply:
Send a CV to workshop@butternutbikes.co.uk or just tell us what you've been up to.
Bonus points if you include a strange-but-true repair story or your favourite tool.
Butternut Bikes Ltd
143 Crouch Hill
N8 9QH
020 8347 5534
butternutbikes.co.uk
We're Butternut Bikes – a proper independent bike shop in the heart of Crouch End founded five years ago. We've built a strong reputation for honest advice, quality service, and looking after the sort of bikes people actually ride every day, as well as selling family cargo bikes (Such as Tern, Estarli, Muli, Veloe...). Whether it's a well-used commuter, a carefully chosen cargo bike, or a fast road machine, we treat them all with the same care.
We're a busy, friendly team with lovely customers and high standards – and we're looking for another mechanic to join us.
The role:
This is a workshop role with variety. You'll be servicing and repairing a steady stream of practical bikes – mostly commuters and family setups – with the occasional high-end or vintage oddity thrown in. You'll also be helping customers with repairs, giving advice, ordering stock, and keeping the workshop running smoothly.
Hours are flexible – ideally Tuesday to Friday, with some Saturdays (regular or occasional, up to you). It's a permanent role, but we're open to short-term help if that's more your thing. We are also very much open to someone who has been out of the trade for a while, and fancies dipping their toe back in the water, even if it's for a few months to help us out as a bit of a project.
You might be the right fit if you:
* Have worked in a bike shop before (as a mechanic or in a dual role)
* Or you've got practical experience from another trade and a real interest in bikes
* Can work independently and take pride in doing things properly
* Enjoy talking to customers and being part of a team
* Don't mind the odd mad repair job or niche setup
* Don't necessarily have Cytech – we're more interested in your skills than your certificates
What we offer:
* A proper wage – starting at the London Living Wage and going up to £40k depending on experience
* Free lunch (!), staff discounts, and good Yorkshire Tea
* A nice backyard to hang out in
* A cheerful, collaborative workshop with a genuinely decent atmosphere
* A dog called Sprocket, who takes her role as Barketing Manager fairly seriously
* A chance to work somewhere that's proud of the service we offer – and the community we're part of
We're proud that our customers are a real mix – families, commuters, weekend riders, bike nerds and people who just want to get from A to B. At least half our customers are women, and we'd love our team to reflect that better. We're actively looking to improve the diversity of the cycling industry, and we welcome applicants from backgrounds underrepresented in this space.
To apply:
Send a CV to workshop@butternutbikes.co.uk or just tell us what you've been up to.
Bonus points if you include a strange-but-true repair story or your favourite tool.
Butternut Bikes Ltd
143 Crouch Hill
N8 9QH
020 8347 5534
butternutbikes.co.uk
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Bike Trade Jobs / How to advertise
Last post by siwatts - January 03, 2011, 12:33:41 AMIt's [currently] free to advertise a bike trade job on biketradebuzz.com.
If you have a job to advertise, please email jobadverts@biketradebuzz.com detailing:
Employer
Job Title
Job Description
Location
Salary
Closing Date
If you would like to include a company logo, please also send it, in JPEG, GIF or PNG format with your ad.
Adverts will be removed the day following your closing date, or as soon as practical or sooner if we are instructed to do so.
If you have a job to advertise, please email jobadverts@biketradebuzz.com detailing:
Employer
Job Title
Job Description
Location
Salary
Closing Date
If you would like to include a company logo, please also send it, in JPEG, GIF or PNG format with your ad.
Adverts will be removed the day following your closing date, or as soon as practical or sooner if we are instructed to do so.
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Announcements / How to join the site
Last post by siwatts - January 03, 2011, 12:23:30 AM"Bike Trade Buzz" is a trade members only forum for the bicycle industry.
Membership is restricted to bona-fide members of the bicycle industry and related services industries ONLY
All new sign ups will be verified as having a genuine and legitimate link to the bike trade before being granted access. This verification process can be simple, or complicated, depending upon the email address that you sign up with.
To make things simpler for all involved, please, wherever possible, sign up using your primary BUSINESS email address, for example name@mybikeshopname.co.uk or name@bikesupplier.com etc. So long as the email address can be checked against a genuine bike or related business, your membership application should be approved pretty quickly (typically a few hours rather than days).
At no point will email addresses be made available to anyone except for the site administrators.
If you are unable to do this, sign up using your preferred email address and then send an email to "editor at biketradebuzz . com" from the same email address, explaining who you are, where you work and, if necessary, how your business relates to the bike industry. This registration method is likely to take longer whilst we verify your credentials (this could take several days) and we may require you to provide further credentials to verify who you are.
In all cases you will receive an email from the site which will contain an activation link which you MUST follow to activate your account once you have been approved.
Anonymity within the forum is allowed: your username need not be your real name, however you must supply genuine credentials for sign up. Only the site administrators have access to your full details.
It is vitally important that membership of this site is open only to those people directly involved with the bike trade either via shops, suppliers, bike trade press or some types of ancilliary suppliers and whilst our membership requirements might seem like a pain, they exist to enable the trade to have an area where business matters can be discussed openly and frankly, without fear of that information being seen by anyone outside the trade. If you don't approve of these principles, please don't bother signing up.
Membership is restricted to bona-fide members of the bicycle industry and related services industries ONLY
All new sign ups will be verified as having a genuine and legitimate link to the bike trade before being granted access. This verification process can be simple, or complicated, depending upon the email address that you sign up with.
To make things simpler for all involved, please, wherever possible, sign up using your primary BUSINESS email address, for example name@mybikeshopname.co.uk or name@bikesupplier.com etc. So long as the email address can be checked against a genuine bike or related business, your membership application should be approved pretty quickly (typically a few hours rather than days).
At no point will email addresses be made available to anyone except for the site administrators.
If you are unable to do this, sign up using your preferred email address and then send an email to "editor at biketradebuzz . com" from the same email address, explaining who you are, where you work and, if necessary, how your business relates to the bike industry. This registration method is likely to take longer whilst we verify your credentials (this could take several days) and we may require you to provide further credentials to verify who you are.
In all cases you will receive an email from the site which will contain an activation link which you MUST follow to activate your account once you have been approved.
Anonymity within the forum is allowed: your username need not be your real name, however you must supply genuine credentials for sign up. Only the site administrators have access to your full details.
It is vitally important that membership of this site is open only to those people directly involved with the bike trade either via shops, suppliers, bike trade press or some types of ancilliary suppliers and whilst our membership requirements might seem like a pain, they exist to enable the trade to have an area where business matters can be discussed openly and frankly, without fear of that information being seen by anyone outside the trade. If you don't approve of these principles, please don't bother signing up.
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