FEATURE
‘PEOPLE THAT MAKE THE INDUSTRY’ CONNOR MOONEY / CAIRNEY CYCLES
Following on from a conversation at iceBike* North, here we sit down with Connor Mooney of Cairney Cycles to talk all things bike: Riding them, fixing them, working in the industry, developing training courses and teaching others.
Connor has a story that’s not so typical and is all the more interesting for it. Here, we ask him a few quick questions to open and expand the conversation.
How did you get started in cycling? What does that look like?
I guess if I went back before I started working, I was always into bikes, loved biking, building bogies and all kinds of things, go-karts - mechanicing and working with spanners has always been kind of my thing. I still think riding is as close to being a kid again as you can feel - as soon as you jump on the bike, it’s a great feeling. So it’s nice to be able to go back to it in a way. Where does ‘fixing bikes’ become a job? For myself, it was working with Halfords, part-time. To be honest, I never really thought about that sort of work, and yeah, I just loved it straight away - working with my hands and fixing bikes.
Looking back, I don’t feel like there was a lot of support and training at the time. Maybe that’s where my future passion came from.
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