Basic Maintenance
Overview
You will be learning by working on your own bicycle, if you do not have one, it may be possible to provide a bicycle given sufficient notice. All tools, plus a pair of gloves, eye protectors and apron will be provided for use during the workshop – please wear appropriate clothing and footwear.
Course Material
Safety and general roadworthiness tests
Puncture Repair/Tyre Change/Inner Tube change (not tubeless)
Derailleur gear indexing and minor gear adjustments (not electronic gears)
Brake Adjustments and general setting for regular caliper, cantilever or disc brakes
Wheel Truing
Practise sessions and recap with open Q&A
What Will I Recieve?
Good safety knowledge
The confidence and ability to fix punctures
Experience and knowledge of indexing and adjusting derailleur gears
Proficiency in adjusting, setting and optimising the brakes on your bicycle
The ability to True (realign) pringle-shaped wheels and determine when a rim or wheel is beyond the scope of truing and potentially dangerous