Motorcycle and Bicycle Mechanic
🏍️Repairs and tunes motorcycles, scooters, bicycles and e-scooters: engines, brakes, wiring, suspension. Summer is the busy season, winter is for projects.
Prospects & pay
What the work is like
💼 Job market
🇺🇸 $49.4k a year on average
Small engine mechanics — US: Census ACS 2020–24 (full-time), BLS projections 2025–35
🇬🇧 £37.3k median a year · 91,000 jobs
Vehicle technicians, mechanics and electricians — UK: ONS ASHE 2025 (full-time)
🤖 AI & automation
Software will make diagnostics easier, but hands-on repairs and custom tuning stay with the mechanic. E-bikes and e-scooters bring more work.
Who it suits
Interests: 🔧 Making things by hand, ⚙️ Tech and engineering, ✈️ Transport, flying, sea, 🏃 Sport and movement.
Key strengths: manual dexterity, logic.
Where to study
- Apprenticeship Cycle Mechanic (Level 2) or motorcycle technician apprenticeship (UK)
- Vocational Ausbildung Zweiradmechatroniker (DE)
- Course Cytech bicycle mechanic certification (UK); motorcycle technician programmes (US)
Key school subjects (A-level / IB / AP): Physics, Maths.
🧗 Through an apprenticeship at a workshop (UK), the 3.5-year Zweiradmechatroniker Ausbildung in Germany, or courses: Cytech for bikes, US college programmes for motorcycles.
Things to know
🛢️ Dirt, noise, smells
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