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@neilbah
Cytech will ultimately only tech someone a fraction of what they will encounter in the real world, better than nothing but not much better than saying ' i do all my own bikes '. We recently had a new cycling circuit open nearby and they wanted to contract out the maintenance of the bicycle fleet, first question on the phone was 'do you have a cytech qualified mechanic? ' to which i passed the phone over to the manager.. 'no, we have a mechanic with 20 years experience including team support in uci races as opposed to one thats sat a week long course' was the reply. I felt pretty good about that. If you write good notes on each job either via lightspeed or some other epos to cover your work, have insurance etc and can show you have some kind of safety 'M' check before releasing a bike then theres no reason to make it a requirement.